Job Description

Your mission

• Research, analyze, and identify appropriate colors, materials, and finishes in line with product strategy and design concepts, market trends, and insights provided by the design team
• Based upon research on trending lifestyles, new materials, markets, and technologies, establish CMF stories required for product design, and deliver emotional values in new perspectives to consumers
• Implement CMF concepts with tangible material samples, build contact with local & global manufacturing networking, prototyping is carried out to enable actual development
• Participate in the process from product conception to production 
• Collaborate with cross functional teams, including Industrial Design, Research and Strategy, to translate design concepts into executable CMF specifications
• ..and more, depending on the project and your expertise!

Your profile

• Substantial work-experience in a design- and innovation environment, ideally already as a CMF specialist
• Knowledge in material trends and forecast innovative material used in a variety of Hard and Soft Goods applications across multiple industries including interior design, home decor, and consumer electronics.
• Knowledge in materials and manufacturing processes
• Work with material vendors to develop both advanced material samples and standards for production
• Work alongside with engineers, suppliers and manufacturers to develop concepts and prototypes into material technologies suitable for mass manufacturing 
• Highly independent and self-motivated, strong work-ethic and high reliability in remote/on-site team settings

Why us?

• fun and passionate team that places high importance not only on professional skills, but also on great personalities
• friendly, family-like work-environment and low levels of hierarchy 
• opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects with other designers, researchers, strategists, technologists and model-makers
• a fair freelance contract and reliable payment