Job Application for Intermediate Industrial Designer – Creative Builder with Entrepreneurial Spirit at air up GmbH

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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.

As part of our innovation team, you will play a central role in exploring, testing, and launching new air up products. We’re not just looking for a designer—we’re looking for a builder, a doer, and someone excited to shape new opportunities from the ground up. You’ll be joining an interdisciplinary team that generates business ideas, validates them with real users, and turns them into market-ready products. If you thrive in fast-changing environments, love to wear multiple hats, and bring both creativity and grit to the table, this might be your next big challenge.

***This role is located in Munich***

Your responsibilities

Explore ideas through the design thinking process—from research to execution.
Prepare and host user interviews to validate concepts.
Develop and test tangible solutions, from UI/UX mockups to physical prototypes.
Create marketing materials and ads to bring ideas to life.
Produce high-quality 3D visuals for alignment and testing.
Collaborate closely with engineers to bring concepts into production.
Play an active role in critical product and business decisions—helping shape not just the design, but the direction of new ventures.
Move fast: rapidly iterate, prototype, and test to push ideas forward at speed.

That’s you

You hold a degree in Industrial Design, UI/UX Design, Branding, or a related field.
You bring 3+ years of relevant experience at an intermediate level.

Your entrepreneurial mindset & soft skills:

You’re eager to learn, grow fast, and take ownership.
You have an eye for detail and a strong sense of aesthetics.
You’re open-minded, flexible, and thrive when facing new, unfamiliar tasks.
You think holistically, connecting brand, product, and user-centered narratives.
You’re proactive—when you see an opportunity, you act on it.
You have a bias toward action and fast execution—turning ideas into tangible outcomes quickly.

Your hard skills:

Strong understanding of UI/UX, branding, and marketing—with the visual know-how to translate brand identity across ads, websites, and other touchpoints.
Solid foundation in industrial design, including 3D modeling, physical prototyping, and 3D visualization.

Nice to have:

Experience with animation or video editing software.
Experience setting up and leading user interviews and other testing methods.

The benefits listed below are intended for full-time employees. For other employment types, including working students and minijobbers, benefits may differ based on the terms of their contract and applicable regulations.

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

Intermediate Industrial Designer – Creative Builder with Entrepreneurial Spirit

Be extraordinary - Excite the ordinary!

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

Your responsibilities

That’s you

The benefits listed below are intended for full-time employees. For other employment types, including working students and minijobbers, benefits may differ based on the terms of their contract and applicable regulations.

But what’s in for you?

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