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About this opportunity:
Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally.
Engineering Unit Hardware is responsible for developing hardware solutions for a broad range of indoor and outdoor systems, from antennas to macro installations.
To further enrich our products in quality, product identity and usability we are building a strong Industrial Design team, taking active part in all hardware product development, from research and early concepts to implementation and production. The Industrial Design team is growing, and we are now looking for a Senior Industrial Designer to join the team.

What you will do:

• As Senior Industrial Designer you will have a central role in our Industrial Design team.
• You will be driving Industrial Design projects from ideas to manufacturing, in cross-competence project teams, representing the Industrial Design interests including Product Identity, Usability and Brand values.
• You will have great opportunities for initiatives and creativity in multiple projects.
• You will take active part in the continuous development of the Industrial Design department including platform work, design strategies, and ways of working.

The skills you bring:

• Your background for the job as Senior Industrial Designer is a master’s degree or bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design and at least ten years’ of experience of work as industrial designer with consumer and/or professional products.
• As a Senior Industrial Designer, you are working in cross functional project groups as well as in independent projects, both as lead designer and creative doer.
• With a wide competence within product development your core competences lie in product identity, strategy, usability and innovation.
• You have a strong aesthetic understanding and well-developed skills to communicate brand values in products.
• You are a design thinker, good at creating structure to complicated problems, quickly work out alternative solutions and find inspiration in challenges that calls for creative problem solving.
• Working methodically, you are always careful to assure planning, efficiency and quality, you have high standards and deliver in time.
• You have a good insight in different types of production methods and are used to work with industrial design for advanced injection molding, die casting, pressed steel and more.
• With extensive experience in your professional tools you work intuitively and can efficiently keep a high level of quality.
• You are creative, open-minded and focused on customer and user satisfaction; have a great understanding of aesthetics, ergonomic principles, and a passion for innovation and quality, with a strong eye for detail, excellent communication and execution abilities.

Personal qualities:

• A sharp professional toolbox and well-oiled, methodical way of working.
• A strong and versatile sense of aesthetics, form and human factors.
• Creative leadership qualities and good organizational skills.
• A team player with professionalism, enthusiasm, confidence and self motivation.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills in 2D and 3D as well as good verbal and written presentation skills in English and Swedish.

Please include your portfolio, along with your CV and cover letter, in English in the application.