Industrial Designer, Motorola Solutions
Incentive Bonus Plans and Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
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2 days a week in office
Communication software for public safety & enterprise
Open for applications
Communication software for public safety & enterprise
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Incentive Bonus Plans and Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
More information about location
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build and connect safety and security technologies in our never-ending pursuit to keep people safer everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Are you compelled to innovate? Do you want your work to have benefit and impact in the most extreme situations? Would you like to be on a highly collaborative team using social sciences and human-centered design to address a global customer base with mission-critical use cases?
- Do you seek complex challenges and transform them into meaningful designs and critical experiences? Do you embrace a world that is changing faster than ever? Do you seek clarity over ambiguity and address speed with urgency? Does empathy for the user provide you with purpose?
- Do you desire to build for their needs and wants so that they can be safer and more efficient? Do you know the value of good design? Do you insist on it?
- Must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited industrial design program
- A Masters degree is a plus
- An Industrial Designer is an established and productive professional who works independently and with general supervision
- This position requires exceptional interpersonal skills and the capability to collaborate in a team-focused environment
- Collaboration and communication skills are critical to communicating designs and outcomes with other leaders and decision-makers in a cross-discipline environment
- Ability to appreciate and work with human factors and research to define marketing and user requirements
- Sensitivity to culture and end users should complement a strong core knowledge of design
- Problems faced are challenging and varied, this role requires the ability to influence others, establishing and defending user-driven and principle-based designs across multiple parallel projects
- A designer is expected to analyze the problem to uncover the "real" issues about users, context, and environment
- Judge concept effectiveness by linking to use cases, user requirements, and research data
- Choose the right plan of action based on available information, timing, and resources
- Strong 2-D visualization skills are necessary such as sketching, Illustrator, and Photoshop software
- A solid expertise in at least one 3-D CAD program, such as Solid Works, or other similar tools is required
- Proficiency in video and animation (Adobe After Effects or similar) for storytelling of user experience or product attributes
- Bachelors Degree with 1+ years of industrial design and/or hardware experience
What the job involves
- Your designs will help us solve for safer workplaces and communities
- Integrate effectively into a multidisciplinary group that includes cognitive and behavioral scientists, interaction designers, and human factors engineers and deliver to strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Uncover problems and develop them into ideas that become design solutions grounded by end-user requirements providing a solid value proposition
- Collaborate with marketing and engineering to ensure successful implementation of industrial designs
- Understand and communicate a user journey or product value proposition through various media, storyboards, animations, and videos
- Quickly identify and create appropriate design concepts with follow-through to production
- Create world-class hardware designs in a fast-paced environment
- Follow up with manufacturing and production processes as required
Application process
- Must provide a link to a portfolio or digital examples of your work when applying; otherwise, candidate will not be considered
Our take
Motorola Solutions is a leading provider of communication and software solutions tailored for public safety and enterprise sectors. Its extensive portfolio includes mission-critical radios, command center software and video security systems designed to enhance operational efficiency and safety.
The company's focus extends beyond mere hardware, as it emphasizes integrated software solutions that facilitate communication and data management. This integration of hardware and software ensures clients can respond promptly and effectively to challenges.
Looking ahead, the company is opening a new R&D center in Cork, creating 200 jobs to advance land mobile radio technology. This investment supports its growth and innovation, building on its existing Irish presence and recent acquisition of Tetra Solutions.
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Company benefits
- Flexible work models
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and family leave
- Health care benefits
- Global wellness resources
- Employee assistance programs
- Rotation programs
- Mentor relationships
- Learning and development opportunities
- Retirement benefits
- Employee bonuses
- Stock grants & employee stock purchase plans
Company values
- Inclusive: We foster inclusion, equity and diversity to support our customers, communities and each other
- Driven: We keep it simple by focusing on what matters most so we can seize opportunities with speed and confidence
- Innovative: We constantly create ingenious solutions to the real challenges of today, tomorrow and beyond
- Accountable: We stand behind the work we do, the contributions we make and the high business standards we maintain
- Passionate: We meet challenges with energy and determination, always pursuing ever-higher standards
- Partners: We work with our customers to address obstacles before they become challenges
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
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Leadership
James J. O'Connor
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Motorola Solutions in 1999. Founder and Chairman of Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center and 1871. They are also the Global Head of Venture Capital and Managing Director at William Blair.
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