Senior Industrial Designer, Lime
$128-176k
Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
2-3 days a week in office
Electric bike and scooter rentals
Be an early applicant
Electric bike and scooter rentals
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$128-176k
Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free.
Role
Who you are
- You are a curious, organized and hands-on industrial designer that likes to prototype and test your ideas
- You love to think broadly and connect culture, user experience, and business value to your design concepts
- You are a proactive team player, eager to jump in and contribute to the team’s goals and design our culture
- You are comfortable moving open-ended projects forward with limited direction; driving execution by setting clear deliverables and milestones
- You have experience designing products from start to finish collaborating with engineering development and defending key details to maintain ID and UX integrity
- You hold a high bar for excellence in industrial design
- You are comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders to understand complex problems and collaboratively identify pragmatic paths forward based on design impact
- You craft and present high impact design presentations to leadership, building strong narrative supporting industrial design work
- You have experience as a project team lead
- Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? If this role excites you we encourage you to apply
Desirable
- BA in Industrial Design with 7+ years of industrial design experience
- A portfolio showcasing recent in-market products you’ve designed described with a thorough ID process, polished skillset, and refined aesthetic sense
- Proficiency with Solidworks, Keyshot and Adobe Creative Suite
- Experience using AI tools (ie Vizcom etc.) in creative workflow
- Experience developing ruggedized, transportation or micromobility products, in addition to consumer products
- Experience working with overseas teams and vendors
- Ability to travel to Lime markets and factories in the US, Europe, and Asia as needed
What the job involves
- Lime is hiring a Senior Industrial Designer to join our dynamic Hardware Design team. We are seeking a creative, thoughtful and knowledgeable designer to help us craft the future of shared micro-mobility hardware
- In this role, you will work alongside the SF based design team and imagine industry leading hardware products and experiences start-to-finish through concepting, prototyping, detailed refinement, and DFM support
- This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on industrial designer to make an impact delivering sustainable, intuitive, and lasting mobility solutions at a fast-moving company
- Lead projects that impact Lime riders globally, from conception to market launch
- Collaborate daily with ID, ME, and broader crossfunctional stakeholders to provide multifaceted design solutions, proactively guiding programs and escalating risks through impactful visualization and design work
- Mentor design team members, providing project feedback and support ID skill development
- Develop and present elegant industrial design solutions for compelling, mass-produced mobility products – with an eye towards manufacturability and durability - for our current and future fleets
- Create lightweight, rapid concept mock-ups for stakeholder review and develop great designs through iterative prototyping at our in-house 3D print lab and metal shop
- Execute a well-rounded design process - including sketching, complex 3D surface development, detail refinement, CMF, and excellent presentation storytelling - to drive high-quality ID team outputs from problem statement to final delivery
Our take
In recent years, electric-powered mobility companies have attracted an extraordinary amount of interest and funding, in part due to rising eco-friendly sentiment, and in part because of the race to "find the next Uber". Lime is one such company, that has rapidly scaled across multiple geographies to be a key player in the fight for market leadership.
Lime, along with its competitors, has had to grapple with regulation in many of its target markets, but nonetheless has steadily increased its footprint. Since its launch, the company has facilitated millions of trips, making it one of the biggest companies of its kind. Interestingly, the CEO has stated that "cars are our true business rivals—not other scooter companies", suggesting that its biggest business challenge will be to get families to give up their second cars.
With a presence that spans an impressive number of regions - in 2023, Lime began operating in Qatar - the company has cemented itself in the micromobility market and stands to profit from the increasing popularity of these types of services. A substantial increase in ridership enabled Lime to achieve "free cash flow positivity" two years in a row, with suggestions it will pursue a US IPO in 2027.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2021
$523m
CONVERTIBLE
May 2020
$170m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Disability insurance
- 401(k)
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Toby
(Co-Founder & Board Advisor)Founder and CEO of ZERO&. Was a Marketing Manager at Pepsi for 6 years before doing an MBA at Berkeley. Moved into consulting and VC for 5 years before starting Lime.
Brad
(Co-Founder & Chairman)VP of Business Development at Tencent for 8 years. Managing Partner of a VC firm for 3 years, where he worked with Toby. Has an MBA from Berkeley.
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