Phoenix Design

PRODUCT DESIGNER (w/m/d) – Stuttgart

ABOUT US

Basically, with our work as designers we have a lot of influence to envision and create a better tomorrow. Imagine a world built on humane innovation, that enables the common good within a rich and fulfilled life, not just for our generation, but for all. The world's largest consumer demographic desires experiences that resolve new dilemmas at the intersection of technology & wellbeing to tackle physical, mental and social challenges for humane and sustainable futures. That’s why our mission is to reinvent wellbeing to change our home, work and motion for good.

Since we opened our doors in October 1987, we have remained independent. Phoenix Design is a design and innovation studio creating smart and substantial brand experiences that make eminent business sense and which touches people – today, for tomorrow. All efforts by Phoenix Design are thus tailored to meet real everyday needs and desires of real people regardless of age, background, or lifestyle. Our cross-disciplinary teams in Europe and Asia create branded product-experiences that follow our philosophy of “Logik, Moral und Magie”. In order to create a holistic brand experience, we’re working with a multi-disciplinary approach, supporting our clients from the first idea via design all the way to the final data set, often in long-standing partnerships. Change and Re-Invention are our building blocks of success, deeply ingrained in the PHOENIX DNA. Driven by curiosity for everything that arises, our studios in Stuttgart, Munich and Shanghai are permanently changing themselves and their partners in order to ensure the substantial further development and future-readiness on both sides. We actively encourage a diverse and inclusive environment that fosters each employee's strengths and individuality at PHOENIX. Our culture experience is built on 5 pillars: clarity, consideration, courage, compassion, companionship. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for your application, regardless to your nationality, ethic, skin color, religion, sex or gender identity. Come as you are and join our mission!

THE ROLE AND YOUR IMPACT AT PHOENIX

As Product Designer you will be a part of an interdisciplinary team and own all design topics of the teams’ domain.

We are a cross-functional team of tech, product, prototyping, research, strategy folks juggling a lot of cool projects and clients, such as: Huawei, Interstuhl, Hansgrohe, LG, Fraunhofer …as well as exciting Startups.

There are many industries, but there is only one life – that’s why we are interested in our client’s intention to do good, not just their industry.

YOU'LL FIT GREAT WITH THESE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 2-3 years of industry experience as an industrial designer with bachelor's degree in Industrial Design
• You are quality driven and self-organized.
• You empathize with your end users and create solutions through understanding human needs and motivations as well as business requirements.
• You articulate and structure thoughts, ideas and arguments in clear, stringent manner
• You work well with interdisciplinary teams from various backgrounds such as product, tech, prototyping, research and strategy
• You partner with design and client peers to create a holistic product experience and ensure consistency across all our services. You have excellent knowledge in Rhino, Solid Works or Maya, as well as CGI tools, Adobe Creative Suite, hand sketch, experience in prototyping is a plus.

We would love to call you a Phoenix!

If there are any questions, don’t hesitate to contact Inga Liebermann +49 711 955 976 37.

Principal Strategist (w/m/d) – Shanghai

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About us

As designers, we are responsible for re-inventing the world we live in. Phoenix is a design and innovation studio creating smart and substantial brand experiences that make eminent business sense and which touch people – today, for tomorrow. Since 1987, products, interactions, and digital ecosystems have been created based on the fundamental values of Logic, Morals, and Magic. More than 850 design awards (1st place – iF World Design Index, Design Studios) confirm the quality and continuity of the worldwide work, i. a. the award of honour "Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2018". Today, the team comprising 80 international experts at the Stuttgart, Munich, and Shanghai locations – together with its partners – are creating a joint vision of Smart Living.

 

Your tasks


• At Phoenix Design, Principal strategists are insights-driven creators of original thought, expert innovation practitioners and scholars of design-culture. As such you will be working at the intersection of our clients, our creative teams and Phoenix Design's leadership team.
• Your key tasks will be to develop and articulate the creative vision and point of views that give voice to pitches, proposals, projects and public performances, and to lead and collaborate with our design teams to create insights-driven ideas and innovations - from concept to launch.
• In your engagements you will leverage your diverse set of experiences to conceive new ideas, and entice decision makers with insights and stories that smoothly blend academic theory, business knowledge and critical attitude.
• As a business-savvy creative consultant you are adept at managing and navigating uncertainty and complexity, and confident in taking on different roles with vastly different tasks, at different stages of each endeavour.
• Internally you will mentor, lead, direct and collaborate with our management board and creative teams to generate business, provide new perspectives, set new standards in method and knowledge, and create strategies, experiences, products and services that produce value for our clients, and enable them to grow their business.
• Externally you will be engaging company owners, C-level decision makers, project owners, but also the design-community, and deliver brilliant perspectives that will establish Phoenix Design as a thought leader for Smart Living.


 

Activities and Expectations


• Contribute business-oriented, strategic perspectives to all design activities in business development- and project-contexts
• Create compelling point of views, white papers and talks/presentations that position Phoenix Design as an authority on the notion of Smart Living.
• Identify, explore, understand and synthesise relevant industry-, socio- and techno-cultural trends and discourses that will inform and impact on client endeavours
• Design, plan, coordinate and conduct qualitative research activities
• Analyse and synthesise learnings from primary and secondary research into sharp, perfectly articulated design- and innovation-insights.
• Design, plan, lead and conduct inspiring creative- and innovation workshops with clients
• Frame, scope, detail and calculate project-visions, -deliverables, -plans and proposals that speak the clients mind,.
• Set up, lead and collaborate in medium- to high-complexity, multi-disciplinary projects, and manage your project-teams to deliver world-class deliverables that are on strategy, served in time and in budget.
   

Style and personality

• Generous and winning personality: charisma, confidence and compassion.
• Intellectual and emotional depth/breadth and natural authority
• Healthy humour with serious dedication to your craft, integrity and self-reflection/self-honesty
• Critical, yet open-minded attitude with a healthy balance of humility, swagger and optimism
• Balance between obsession with detail and shrewd improvisation, as well as creating new content and recycling existing materials.
• Highly insightful thinking delivered in a lucid and concise manner.
• Grit and resilience in the face of high workload, timing- and client-pressure.


 

Your expertise

• 10+ years of total work-experience in design-, innovation-, strategy- and/or branding-related fields, such as design- and innovation-consultancy, brand- and advertising agency, management consultancy.
• Authentic, bilingual storytelling-, presentation- and communication-skills: German + English (Stuttgart and Munich), Chinese + English (Shanghai)
• Masters degree in either a design- or strategy-related field and/or social sciences, anthropology or cultural studies
• Solid track record in leading, evaluating and directing both, industrial- and digital design- and innovation work.
• Solid track record in qualitative research and academic comprehension on how culture, research, strategy and design are related to each other
• Understanding of how design- and innovation create value for brands- and businesses
• Capability to identify, decode and simplify the underlying mechanisms of the complex and puzzling, and to bring them across ideas in short, savoury and sticky ways
• Solid project-framing skills: from identifying tacit business objectives, articulating project visions/pictures of success to defining approaches, deliverables and team-profiles for internal teams and clients.


 

Our offer

• A fun and passionate team that places high importance not only on professional skill but on great personality, as well as an honest and friendly way of being and working together
• A friendly, family-like work-environment, flextime workdays, home-office support and low levels of hierarchy
• An onboarding programme which will prepare you well for your new position, and you get a permanent job in a pleasant environment
• Opportunity to receive on- and off-the-job training, as well as travel to events, trade-shows and conferences
• Opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects with a diverse range of professionals – from researchers and technologists to industrial designers and model-makers
• Opportunity to work in our other Phoenix Design locations (Stuttgart, Munich) for project support
• Regular team-events – planned and spontaneous: from annual all-hands trips and X-mas parties, to ad-hoc Karaoke madness and of course the Oktoberfest


 

Interested?

We’re looking forward to your application! 

Design - Modellbauer/ Prototyper (m/w/d)

Wer sind wir?

Die Rainfinity Brause von Hansgrohe, der Konferenzsessel von Wilkhahn oder der bekannte Service-Roboter vom Frauenhofer Institut - unsere Produkte haben einen gemeinsamen Ursprung: unser Design- und Prototyping Lab! Du möchtest Teil davon sein und Innovationen von Morgen schaffen?

Dann bist du herzlich willkommen in unserem interdisziplinären Team aus Design-Modelleuren, Strategen, Researchern und Designern. Wir sind ein führendes Design-und Innovationsstudio und entwickeln für unsere Kunden neue Produkte und Services von Morgen. Ein beträchtlicher Teil dieses Innovationsprozesses findet in unserer internen Modellbauwerkstatt statt, wo von der ersten Idee bis zum Design-Prototyp der gesamte Kreativprozess begleitet, Entwürfe gebaut und getestet werden. Gemeinsam arbeiten wir an Neuentwicklungen für führende Weltmarken.

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Was sind deine Aufgaben?

• Du erarbeitest zusammen mit deinen Kollegen die Produkte von Morgen. Deine Aufgabe ist es, die Ideen aus der Welt der Skizzen und Daten in die physische Realität des Modellbaus zu übersetzen. Als bedeutender Teil des Innovationsprozesses sind dabei Kreativität und Einfallsreichtum gefragt.
• Du erstellst Modelle aus verschiedensten Materialien und überprüfst stetig Ergonomie, Proportionen und Form. Hierzu bringst du ein breitgefächertes Spektrum an handwerklichen Fähigkeiten mit.
• Du entwickelst das gemeinsame Projekt anhand von Modellen in unterschiedlicher Detailierung. Zum einen stehen frühe Erkenntnisse der formalen Gestaltung, Ergonomie und Funktion eines Produktes im Mittelpunkt. Ebenso ein perfektes Designmodell, welches das spätere Serienprodukt darstellen kann.

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Was bringst du mit?

• Idealerweise bringst du eine Ausbildung als Modellbauer mit.
• Du bist geübt im Umgang mit Materialien wie Styropor, Ureol, Acrylglas und Aluminium.
• Idealerweise bringst du Kenntnisse in CAD, CAM und CNC Fräsen mit.
• Du begeisterst dich für Design und vor allem für Innovationen.
• Liebe zum Detail und Perfektion.
• Du bringst eine hohe Bereitschaft mit um dich aktiv weiterzubilden und neue Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse anzueignen.

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Was bieten wir dir?

• Du findest bei uns auf über 300 qm² Fläche eine vollausgestatte Werkstatt mit Elektronik Labor, Lackieranlage, CNC-Fräsen sowie Rapid-Prototyping-Verfahren. Dank dieser professionellen Ausstattung bleibt das Modell von der Idee bis zum fertigen Prototyp in deiner Hand.
• Eine Designagentur mit Herkunft. Seit über 30 Jahren agieren wir im Team, in dem nicht nur Kompetenz, sondern auch Menschlichkeit und ein harmonisches Miteinander großgeschrieben werden.
• Neben einem umfangreichen Einarbeitungsprogramm, bieten wir Weiterbildungen durch Workshops und Schulungen an.

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Möchtest du ein Phoenix werden?

…dann freuen wir uns über deine aussagekräftigen Bewerbungsunterlagen mit Anschreiben, Lebenslauf und Zeugnissen/ Referenzen unter Angabe deiner Gehaltsvorstellung und des frühstmöglichen Eintrittstermins per Email an Enable JavaScript to view protected content. Bei Fragen kannst du dich gerne an Inga Liebermann unter 0711 955 976-37 wenden.

SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER (Interactive) (f/m/d) – Shanghai

About us

As designers, we are responsible for re-inventing the world we live in. PHOENIX is a design and innovation studio creating smart and substantial brand experiences that make eminent business sense and which touch people – today, for tomorrow. Since 1987, products, interactions, and digital ecosystems have been created based on the fundamental values of Logic, Morals, and Magic. More than 850 design awards (1st place – iF World Design Index, Design Studios) confirm the quality and continuity of the worldwide work, i. a. the award of honour "Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2018". Today, the team comprising 80 international experts at the Stuttgart, Munich, and Shanghai locations – together with its partners – are creating a joint vision of Smart Living.

Your tasks

• As Senior Product Designer, you will be tasked with creating innovative product- and service-experiences across a broad range of industries and to push the boundaries in creating positive impacts on both new and traditional life-product categories
• As part of a nimble, interdisciplinary team, you will be responsible for leading international projects and collaborating with new and existing clients, such as Audi, Deli, Haier, Hansgrohe, Huawei, Hisense, LG, Midea, Stiebel Eltron, and Xiaomi
• You as the ideal candidate will make use of your considerable expertise in UI/UX craft and methodology, as well engage in applying interactive design principles to both physical and digital product solutions from concept to delivery
• During projects, you will engage in a diverse mix of product design exercises – from leading ideation sessions and external workshops, facilitating high level discussions with clients, and managing projects both large and small scale
• In order to keep focus on the needs of people you have the ability to transform user research into actionable user insights and you are not afraid to test solutions in order to evaluate your ideas
• You are also keen on articulating, communicating and defending UX concepts and strategies in form of wireframes, flows, prototypes, models, and defined visual directions based on your versatile knowledge of design methodology and best practices
• You are comfortable with ambiguous project briefs and broad stakeholder goals and can translate them into a defined project scope and roadmap

Your expertise

• At least 5 years of professional experience, preferably in an international design-studio, agency, consultancy, or a prominent in-house design setting
• Demonstrated UI/UX mastery. High proficiency of top-level design tools (Figma, Sketch) and interaction design tools (Principle, Framer, Protopie)
• Continuously keeping up to date with the latest and greatest of app, mini program, and H5 trends, as well as design tools and consumer technology trends
• Help promote an inspiring environment for the team
• Very good verbal and written communication skills in English
• Chinese and/or German skills would be beneficial
• Self-directed, yet highly-cooperative and flexible workstyle within the team
• Reflected, but outspoken and courageous character with high emotional intelligence
• Experience in working in agile project environments
• Animation, physical prototyping, 3D, or front-end development skills are also huge plus

Our offer

• A fun and passionate team that places high importance not only on professional skill but on great personality, as well as an honest and friendly way of being and working together
• A friendly, family-like work-environment, flextime workdays, home-office support and low levels of hierarchy
• An onboarding programme which will prepare you well for your new position, and you get a permanent job in a pleasant environment
• Opportunity to receive on- and off-the-job training, as well as travel to events, trade-shows and conferences
• Opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects with a diverse range of professionals – from researchers and technologists to industrial designers and model-makers
• Opportunity to work in our other Phoenix Design locations (Stuttgart, Munich) for project support
• Regular team-events – planned and spontaneous: from annual all-hands trips and X-mas parties, to ad-hoc Karaoke madness and of course the Oktoberfest

 

Interested?

We’re looking forward to your application! 

PRINCIPAL PRODUCT DESIGNER (f/m/d) – Shanghai

About us

As designers, we are responsible for re-inventing the world we live in. PHOENIX is a design and innovation studio creating smart and substantial brand experiences that make eminent business sense and which touch people – today, for tomorrow. Since 1987, products, interactions, and digital ecosystems have been created based on the fundamental values of Logic, Morals, and Magic. More than 850 design awards (1st place – iF World Design Index, Design Studios) confirm the quality and continuity of the worldwide work, i. a. the award of honour "Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2018". Today, the team comprising 80 international experts at the Stuttgart, Munich, and Shanghai locations – together with its partners – are creating a joint vision of Smart Living.

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Your tasks

• As Principal Product Designer you will inspire and motivate our team with extraordinary ideas
• You are capable of tracing the newest trends in all areas, demonstrate unusual solution methods and strive to break new ground
• With your unconventional way of thinking you can trigger enthusiasm in our international clients like Audi, BSH, Deli, Fraunhofer IPA, Haier, Hansgrohe, Huawei, LG, LUQEL, Rittal, Stiebel Eltron, Still, Trumpf, Vorwerk, Wilkhahn
• You know and apply specific procedures and techniques from the areas of innovation, creativity and research. Hence you will initiate the introduction of design tools and strategies to specifically improve the creativity and innovation power of the teams

Your expertise

• At least 10 years of professional experience, preferably in an international setting (Experience on the Chinese market would be a nice add-on)
• Exceptional design competence coupled with a high level of analytical and conceptual skills within the framework of complex and challenging projects
• Deep understanding of holistic user experience with regard to the brand and to user needs
• Experience in preparing and conducting pitch presentations
• Very good verbal and written communication skills in English
• Chinese and/or German skills would be beneficial
• Strong knowledge of design processes and methods as well as strong presentation and communication skills

Our offer

• A permanent position in an attractive international environment
• A friendly and informal working atmosphere with an emphasis on team spirit
• An individual onboarding programme to prepare you for your new job
• Personal development through workshops, conferences or trade fair visits
• Opportunity to travel to, and work from, our other studios
• Flextime workdays and possibility of home office
• Regular team events, annual skiing trip, language courses, yoga and massage

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Interested?

We're looking forward to your application!

(SENIOR) PRODUCT DESIGNER (f/m/d) – Shanghai

About us

As designers, we are responsible for re-inventing the world we live in. PHOENIX is a design and innovation studio creating smart and substantial brand experiences that make eminent business sense and which touch people – today, for tomorrow. Since 1987, products, interactions, and digital ecosystems have been created based on the fundamental values of Logic, Morals, and Magic. More than 850 design awards (1st place – iF World Design Index, Design Studios) confirm the quality and continuity of the worldwide work, i. a. the award of honour "Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2018". Today, the team comprising 80 international experts at the Stuttgart, Munich, and Shanghai locations – together with its partners – are creating a joint vision of Smart Living.

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Your tasks

• As (Senior) Product Designer you will autonomously direct the design and establish conceptual guidelines
• You will work closely with our international clients for all kinds of innovative products of different branches
• With your passion for human-centred design you strive to enhance our client's brands and lead meetings and workshops
• Moreover, you will manage international projects from the initial ideas up to the final realisation and perform independently as project lead and client manager in close co-operation with new and established clients, such as Audi, BSH, Deli, Fraunhofer IPA, Haier, Hansgrohe, Huawei, LG, LUQEL, Rittal, Stiebel Eltron, Still, Trumpf, Vorwerk, Wilkhahn

Your expertise

• At least 5 years of professional experience, preferably in an international setting (Experience on the Chinese market would be a nice add-on)
• Experience in client management, workshops, presentations and as project lead
• High level of creativity and passion about innovative product concepts and designs
• Deep technical knowledge
• Independent and cooperative functioning within the team
• Very good verbal and written communication skills in English
• Chinese and/or German skills would be beneficial
• Strong knowledge of design processes and methods
• Curiosity and eagerness to learn

Our offer

• A permanent position in an attractive international environment
• A friendly and informal working atmosphere with an emphasis on team spirit
• An individual onboarding programme to prepare you for your new job
• Personal development through workshops, conferences or trade fair visits
• Opportunity to travel to, and work from, our other studios
• Flextime workdays and possibility of home office
• Regular team events, annual skiing trip, language courses, yoga and massage

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Interested?

We're looking forward to your application!

Internship Product Design or User Experience Design

Are you fascinated by innovative design? We are too.
Are you creative? We would like to support that.
You have an interest in smart living? That is our vision.

Phoenix has over 30 years of experience in internships and creativity to help you develop your skills as a young creative. Starting from the first day you will be intergrated into working with our international clients as well as your own development into the profesional world of design.

We look foward to meeting you!

You want to work with us in UX/UI design as flexible as possible?

We should meet then!

Your expertise

• A relevant course of study in design, or a comparable vocational training (interaction, communication, graphic arts)
• Several years of job experience in a design environment, ideally already as a UX/UI freelancer
• Outstanding creativity and a particular feel for extraordinary user experience
• High degree of self-motivation and perseverance in order to drive the planned project forward
• Independent and cooperative working in a team
• Very good spoken and written proficiency in German and/or English to be able to cooperate with our international teams
• Good knowledge of design processes and design methodologies should not be foreign concepts for you
• Curiosity and the willingness to learn

What we offer

• A position within the framework of a freelancing contract
• Flat hierarchies and very good communication
• As a Freelancer you will be part of a team that doesn’t only emphasize competence but also attaches great value to team spirit and an amicable way of working together

We're looking forward to your application including cover letter, CV, credentials, earliest possible date to join and work samples as PDF.
Please let us know as well if you are working with package deals per project or the amount of your hourly rate.

Contact: Inga Liebermann, Telefon +49 711 955976 37, HR (at) phoenixdesign.com

We’re looking for creative talent, even outside of our job ads.

... whether as designers, design assistants, freelancer, interns/student trainees or for providing administrative support to our teams.

Show us what you’re able to do and become a part of the PHOENIX family! What we offer:

• 30 years’ experience in Product and Interaction Design
• 3 locations: Stuttgart, Munich, and Shanghai
• Flat hierarchies throughout the entire studio
• An inter-disciplinary team with people from 11 nations
• Attractive development opportunities
• Regular team events (e.g. skiing excursions, summerfest, Lunch Talk)

We're looking forward to receiving your unsolicited application including cover letter, CV, certificates, the earliest date you could join us, and design references in PDF format.

Contact: Inga Liebermann, Telefon +49 711 955976 37, HR (at) phoenixdesign.com