Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Join a World Class Design Team

With over 100 design awards for products and solutions, our team’s purpose-built portfolio is recognized worldwide by the most distinguished and select design organizations such as IDSA, Good Design, and Red Dot. We are one of the Top Ten companies in North America for IF awards and recognition.

Who Are We
We are the Customer Experience and Design Team, grounded in the CTO office and integrated throughout Motorola Solutions' businesses and strategies. We are user-focused and outcome-driven, identifying problems and creating solutions based on research and close collaboration with our customers.

What Do We Do?
Working to understand our customers' unique "Jobs To Be Done" is a foundational principle of the CTO and our team: Solving for Safer, our commitment to continuously innovate with the focus to overcome the ever-changing security, safety, and efficiency challenges our customers face now and in the future.

WE Research to find unmet needs.
WE Envision an ideal future.
WE Apply our expertise in user experience and design, user & human factors research, advanced wireless communications, cloud & mobile application architecture, cybersecurity, imaging, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
WE Design Human Centered, end-to-end, hardware, and software solutions.

These solutions form the basis of many products and systems offered by Motorola Solutions.

About Us
The Experience Design and Research (EDR) team is a cross-functional group focused on Human Centered Design and Research that fuels the next generation of experiences and solutions for our mission-critical customers and users. The team consists of Industrial Designers, UI/UX, Service Designers, and Researchers who design for diverse and challenging Professional-grade markets. Police, Fire, and Commercial user groups all have very distinct and tangible design problems; whether it’s the dirt, grime, and high noise of industrial environments, gloves and turnout gear for fire, or managing intense cognitive loads during police action. Our team is exploring, testing, and designing for emerging technologies and integrations that will define the next generation of commercial and public solutions. Your designs will help us solve for safer workplaces and communities.

Job Description

Are you compelled to innovate? Do you want your work to have benefits and impact in the most extreme situations? Would you like to be on a highly collaborative team using social sciences and human-centered design to address a global customer base with mission-critical use cases? Do you seek complex challenges and transform them into meaningful designs and critical experiences? Do you embrace a world that is changing faster than ever? Do you seek clarity over ambiguity and address speed with urgency? Does empathy for the user provide you with purpose? Do you desire to build for their needs and wants so that they can be safer and more efficient? Do you know the value of good design? Do you insist on it?

An Industrial Designer is an established and productive professional who works independently and with general supervision. You are compelled to innovate and want your work to have benefit and impact in the most extreme situations. You seek complex challenges, transforming them into meaningful designs and critical experiences. This position requires exceptional interpersonal skills and the capability to collaborate in a global team-focused environment. You can influence others, establishing and defending user-driven and principle-based designs across multiple parallel projects.

Basic Requirements

Must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited industrial design program.

A Masters degree is a plus.

Must speak, read and write in English.

Work Description and Skills

Minimum of 3 years of experience in Industrial Design (Hardware)
Create world-class hardware designs in a fast-paced environment.
Integrate effectively into a multidisciplinary group that includes cognitive and behavioral scientists, interaction designers, and human factors engineers and deliver to strict deadlines.
Uncover problems and develop them into ideas that become design solutions grounded by end-user requirements, providing a solid value proposition.
Collaborate with marketing and engineering to ensure the successful implementation of industrial designs.
Analyze problems to uncover the "real" issues about users, context, and environment.
Judge concept effectiveness by linking to use cases, user requirements, and research data.
Quickly identify and create appropriate design concepts and maintain design intent through production.
Leverage AI as a creative co-partner in brainstorming and concept generation to rapidly explore design variations and accelerate the ideation process.
Utilize AI tools for visual storytelling to communicate a user journey or product value proposition through various media, including animations and videos.

Tech Skills

Strong 2-D visualization skills are necessary, such as sketching, Illustrator, and Photoshop software.
A solid expertise in at least one 3-D CAD program, such as Solid Works, Pro E, Rhino, or other similar tools is required.
Proficiency in video and animation (Adobe After Effects or similar) for storytelling of user experience or product attributes.
Experience with or willingness to adopt AI-powered design and visualization tools to enhance design output and efficiency.
A portfolio with past work experience and products designed is required at application.

Join us and Solve For Safer

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Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.