Position Title:  Manager Product Design HnB

Be a part of a revolutionary change 

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business, and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to improve the lives of a billion smokers worldwide.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom dream up and deliver, better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

The Smoke-Free Products Group is evolving into an agile, consumer-focused organization powered by technology and strategic priorities. You’ll help shape the consumer journey—from discovery to loyalty—and see your work drive meaningful change. If you’re ready to make a life-changing impact, there’s no better place.

We are looking for a Manager Product Design to drive through great innovations, design quality and execution on our device and accessories programs.

In this position you will work in close collaboration with the Design stream lead, Physical ID team and product group ensuring strong brand design experiences across the full product design stream for both device and accessories in a hands-on approach balancing leading projects & explorations.

Your “day to day”:

• Establish solid consumer centric product design strategy, creative direction across key programs
• Work effectively with cross functions to maintain the integrity of the design intent, ensure high-quality industrial design, CMF & UI output and deliver on expected timeline and scope. 
• Support product design conceptualisation, iterative methodology, & coordination based on LAU/LAS insights, design trends and NPS to identify product design opportunities that ultimately driving best-in class innovative design solutions to complex design, proposition and brand issues.
• Communicate design vision across program teams and with both internal and external teams.
• Create product design directions, strategies, prototypes, and visuals in partnership with internal and external Industrial Design teams.
• Develop and manage innovative design directions for product design, CMF and UI throughout the design exploration and development stages with internal and external teams.
• Provide industrial design, CMF & UI expertise to cross-functions and suppliers from device concept to production readiness.
• Ensure design concept desirability from a consumer perspective and feasibility from a technology, production and economical point of view in the design process with close collaboration with the Entrepreneurs, Brand and Development team on-site or at key suppliers for increased speed to market.
• Work closely with Insights team in validation of design directions through visual renderings/ 3D prints/ artwork/ material samples/ design mock-ups/ prototypes gaining relevant consumer insights via qualitative or quantitative testing.
• Align and manage existing and defining new (general) interface, interaction and usability principles of design solutions.
• Collaborate with Design stream lead and cross functional teams on the design creative strategy, sustainability and CMF strategies connecting lifestyle trends with material technologies and defined product concepts, researching on innovative sustainable materials and processes, inspire and articulate meaningful application.

Who we are looking for:

• BA/BS and/or MA/MS in a relevant design field.
• Relevant industrial/product design experience (corporate / consultancy), with proven success cases in the market.
• Strong Design Advocacy, delivering standard methodology in design within the programs. Ensuring right level of design quality is executed.
• You have a holistic understanding of design expertise across design subject with a strong background in industrial design, colour material finishing and user interaction design.
• Experience working with accessories and soft goods would be a bonus.
• Good communicator (verbal, written, and visual) who has the ability to influence and build consensus both within a program teams and design team.
• Collaboration mind set: Strong team player with ability to actively promote information sharing, one team spirit, and leading by example and showing rather than telling.
• Excellent sense of form, use of colour and breadth of creative expression with an affinity for how things are made, an eye for detail, and a passion for quality from concept to execution with strong understanding of materials and processes beyond plastic and injection moulding.

What we offer:

Our success depends on the men and women who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to improve the lives of a billion smokers.