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Industrial Designer

Munich

 

Be extraordinary - Excite the ordinary!

Our vision is to make a healthy and sustainable lifestyle the most attractive choice. So we defy: the status quo, misleading product, and nonsense rules! We truly believe in the power of ideas and are thirsty to realize the ones that could have impact. We're an eclectic bunch of creative minds, experts, builders, and improvers. Our perspectives, cultures, backgrounds, dreams, skills, and life paths may have nothing in common, but we gather behind a vision and sail together towards our ambitious goals.

Are you looking to take on a new challenge? Let's talk.

 

Air up is about pure water with a touch of flavor - from air. As the innovation leader in the hydration space, our groundbreaking ScentTaste® technology has redefined how people experience drinking water, establishing an entirely new category where we proudly stand as the sole global player!

Our vision is to make healthy habits irresistible. 

We have an open position in our Industrial Design Team, where you will be spacing from short-term problem-solving for current product improvements to long-term innovation projects. As part of an interdisciplinary product development and implementation team, you will contribute to improving our customer experience, reaching new customer segments, to excite them, and to keep them interested and loyal to our brand. 

Your responsibilities:

  • Own the design in a multidisciplinary team that is evolving our current generation of air up drinkware; Therefore, always challenge the status quo
    and bring in fresh ideas.
  • Gain customer insights and translate them into new ideas and
    potential solutions.
  • Transform ideas into products in an iterative process, from first sketch over prototyping to implementation - always with the objective to proof desirability.
  • Continuously improve our existing designs to meet our customers’ needs and ideally exceed their expectations, in alignment and through inspiring exchange with your ID team colleagues.
  • Find a balance between contemporary aesthetics and feasible technical solutions, also optimizing for cost, in close collaboration with our design engineering team, your ID team colleagues, and other experts.
  • Deal with different tasks / projects in parallel without losing focus for priority and urgency. 

 

  • Teamwork is key: Work and collaborate with your colleagues in person in our amazing new office in Munich. It is key for our success that our multidisciplinary teams work closely together - inspiring one another, surrounded
    by prototypes.

That's you:

  • You hold a degree in Industrial or Product Design, or a related field.
  • You have 1+ years of professional experience (not counting internships) in industrial design and product development, having successfully brought products to market.
  • You have high proficiency in 
    • 3D modelling (Rhino, Fusion360, and/or SolidWorks) and 
    • Creating photo-realistic visuals (ideally in KeyShot or Blender), and also
    • Prototyping incl. 3D printing (Formlabs, Ultimaker, BambuLab ) 
  • You have an eye for detail paired with a strong sense for contemporary aesthetics, that becomes apparent in your portfolio of work samples.
  • An excellent communicator, using storytelling to convey your visions and ideas to others with ease.
  • A self-starter and a hands-on impact-focussed mentality.
  • You are flexible and open-minded, with great interpersonal skills, able to build strong, mutually respectful relationships.
  • You are a fast learner, have strong self-management skills, and you ideally
    have experience in using project management tools like Asana or Trello.

 

 

But what’s in for you?

🏖 30 days of vacation

🏷 discount on our products

💰 employer-funded pension & location related insurances (may vary per country)

🏡 purpose built office in MUC 

📈 personal development

🎉 regular team events

🏁 start-up spirit

🌍 workation options (availability may differ by role)

 

air up® have developed an innovative and world-first drinking system. Through scent alone, the air up® bottle brings flavour to simple tap water and can be enjoyed without any single-use plastic bottles, sugar, or additives. air up is a young, fast-growing company filled with ambitious and creative minds from various backgrounds.

air up® is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an equal opportunity environment for all persons free of discriminatory behaviour. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. 

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Hi Applicant, 

At air up we are constantly working on improving our processes. 
Therefore, we switched to a new applicant tracking system in order to make your recruiting experience with air up even more efficient and convenient for you. 

In the following you find the valid GDPR guidelines regarding our provider Greenhouse Software, Inc.

To clarify that in advance: The recruiting process itself will not change in any way. 

This Information is to notify you that personal data about you will be collected by air up GmbH ("air up"), which is located at Bayerstraße 69, 80335 München, Germany and can be contacted by emailing datenschutz@air-up.com, because air up wishes to evaluate your candidacy for employment at air up. Your personal data is either obtained from publicly available sources (e.g. LinkedIn) or provided to air up by someone who referred you for potential employment. Air up's data protection officer is Pia Bosseler, who can be contacted at pia@air-up.com. Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing air up’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the air up, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment.

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air up GmbH Friedenstraße 22A, 81671 Munich, Germany, Register court: Munich, Register number: HRB 247202
Managing directors: Jannis Koppitz, Simon Nüesch, Tim Jäger, Christian Hauth, Magdalena Jüngst