Inspired by design.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in firm strategy implementation by developing tactical implementation plans to achieve business objectives, working closely with the partners.
• Responsible for a book of business and revenue objectives for your area of expertise.
• Responsible, with other executive directors, for functional discipline revenue goals.
• Coordinate with the leadership team to identify and develop new business opportunities. Author and present compelling project plans, proposals, and presentations by working across functional disciplines.
• Develop and help manage strategic relationships with clients. Build trust, ensuring project solutions meet or exceed the client’s expectations and objectives.
• Lead clients through the problem definition and innovation process by planning and facilitating collaborative Design Thinking workshop sessions with clients and key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in firm strategy implementation by developing tactical implementation plans to achieve business objectives, working closely with the partners.
• Responsible for a book of business and revenue objectives for your area of expertise.
• Responsible, with other executive directors, for functional discipline revenue goals.
• Act as a technical voice for Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering departments during sales meetings. Help clients refine and evaluate technical requirements during the early conception phases of projects and assist in negotiating project details.
• Coordinate with the leadership team to identify and develop new business opportunities. Author and present compelling project plans, proposals, and presentations by working across functional disciplines.
• Develop and help manage strategic relationships with clients. Build trust, ensuring project solutions meet or exceed the client’s expectations and objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis using primary and secondary research methodologies. Analyze industry, market, and consumer trends. Develop unique perspectives and discover opportunities for business growth.
• Work with user research team to develop quantitative and qualitative consumer research studies and translate the research data into actionable insights for our clients.
• Facilitate co-creation workshops with key stakeholders to align the strategic direction for the future of their business.
• Create forward-looking, evidence-based strategies that connect consumer needs and business goals, ranging from short-term tactics to vision of the future. Evaluate the potential business and consumer impact.
• Present strategic recommendations through data visualization, storytelling, and written analysis for our clients and internal teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute mechanical design activities: CAD (Solidworks preferred), design for manufacturability for a range of manufacturing processes (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), prototyping, testing, engineering analyses including FEA simulation, and technical documentation.
• Oversee the above mechanical design activities of other engineers as a project Technical Lead.
• Drive engineering excellence by acting as a mentor to junior engineers and working with the Director of Mechanical Engineering to improve departmental processes and procedures.
• Oversee and support the planning and preparation of design deliverables and client presentations. Ensure deliverables are met per client expectations and project proposals.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute mechanical design activities: CAD (Solidworks preferred), design for manufacturability for a range of manufacturing processes (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), prototyping, testing, engineering analyses including FEA simulation, and technical documentation.
• Deliver engineering excellence by acting as a mentor to junior engineers and working with the Director of Mechanical Engineering to improve departmental processes and procedures.
• Support the preparation of design deliverables and client presentations, and communicate design progress in client meetings.

Key Responsibilities

• Embedded firmware development for a variety of consumer, industrial, and medical devices
• Software project architecture, design, development, verification and project management
• Functional test and debug using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, spectrum analyzers and signal generators
• Participate in the development of hardware drivers for peripherals, such as sensors, short and long range wireless modems, and more.
• Embedded systems programming in C, C++, assembly, and software support using C#, Python, and Java.
• Work closely with electrical engineers and interaction designers to gracefully resolve technical roadblocks and contribute to broad problem solving and design efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform electrical design and embedded firmware development for a variety of consumer, industrial and medical devices.
• Conduct Schematic capture and PCB design using Altium and perform simulations with SPICE and MATLAB.
• Circuit test and debug using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, spectrum analyzers and signal generators.
• Participate in both digital and analog hardware design, including but not limited to Cellular, Bluetooth, Zigbee, LoRa and WiFi networks.
• Embedded systems programming in C/C++/C# to implement code for Internet of Things connected devices.
• Work with Interaction Designers and other electrical engineers to move through technical roadblocks and contribute to problem solving and design efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute electromechanical design activities: CAD (Solidworks preferred), basic PCB layout (Altium preferred), breadboarding (including Arduino), component selection and integration (a range of sensors, actuators, control systems), PCB integration (including rigid-flex, flex), design for manufacturability (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), prototyping, testing, engineering analyses, and technical documentation.
• Deliver engineering excellence by acting as a mentor to junior engineers and working with the Director of Mechanical Engineering to improve departmental processes and procedures.
• Support the preparation of design deliverables and client presentations, and communicate design progress in client meetings.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and report on design research across multiple industries and various stages of product development.
• Be the voice of research on projects and confidently guide clients through the process of study planning, execution, and analysis with minimal oversight.
• Moderate research sessions with confidence and poise to gather key insights on user behaviors and needs.
• Interface with team members in design, strategy, and engineering to drive new client projects from initial research to completion. Support the sales process by writing Statements of Work for projects focused on design research.
• Become a subject matter expert to the research team, sharing your expertise in data-gathering and analysis techniques from both the qualitative and quantitative spaces, and mentoring junior researchers.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the face of the project to the client. Work in collaboration with a Technical Lead or other senior team member to run client projects.
• Create proposals and budgets, manage schedules of internal and external support, and keep all signed paperwork up to date, and in sync with Gantt project budgets. Document all decisions, meeting minutes and action items tracking
• Regularly review project budget status with Account Manager and request resources to complete project work as necessary.
• Oversee and support planning the preparation of presentation materials in cooperation with Technical Lead and other team members.
• Work in collaboration with the Technical Lead to ensure deliverables are met per client expectations and proposals.
• Maintain responsibility project data setup, accuracy and organization for internal project management for internal project management database and internal server.
• Identify potential change of scope issues as they arise and communicates these changes to the Account Manager and Director of Production Management.
• Complete project management tasks as assigned by the Director of Production Management.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with our human factors and usability team to design, execute, and report on research at various stages of product development.
• Help our team write and execute human factors and usability research protocols, research insight analysis, and assist in the preparation of test reports.
• Support our human factors and usability team in defining user needs, translating needs into measurable data, and heuristic reviews.
• Assist and support team activities ranging from note-taking during usability sessions to project management related tasks, as needed.
• Tackle team projects to add new skills, capabilities, tools, and best practices to our research tool kit.