Product Designer

Job Description: Product Designer

Studio 318 is a strategy-led design studio based out of Hyderabad. We journey with the client to build a cohesive brand ecosystem that effectively communicates with their target audiences across business touchpoints. Our designs are aesthetic, people-driven and authentic. Our collective background in design thinking and strength in building value-based brands allows us to articulate varied expressions through print, communication, packaging, websites and environmental graphics.

We're now looking for a product designer to help us bring that same rigour to physical objects — taking an idea from sketch to a manufacturable, ready-to-produce product.

What you'll do

• Translate concepts into resolved 3D models (CAD / surface modelling)
• Prototype using 3D printing — iterate quickly on form, fit and feel
• Choose and spec materials, finishes and tolerances appropriate for the object and the price point
• Prepare clean production files and specification sheets for vendors
• Coordinate with manufacturing partners (ceramic, metal, plastics, wood — depending on the product) through sampling, correction and production
• Sweat the details that make a product feel considered, not generic

You should have

• Strong 3D modelling skills (Fusion 360, Rhino, SolidWorks, or equivalent)
• Hands-on familiarity with 3D printing — you know what prints well and what doesn't
• A working understanding of materials and manufacturing processes, and how to spec them
• Comfort dealing directly with vendors and workshops — following up, correcting samples, holding quality
• A portfolio that shows objects, not just renders — ideally things that have been made
• Minimum 1 year experience

Send your portfolio and a line on one object you designed that actually got made — what it's made of, and one problem you solved to produce it — to [HIDDEN TEXT]