Description:
About Breville:
Over the past 90+ years Breville has grown to become an iconic global brand, delivering kitchen products to over 70 countries around the globe. Breville enhances people’s lives through the delivery of brilliant innovation and thoughtful design based on deep consumer insights, empowering people to do things more impressively or easily than they’d thought possible in their own home and ultimately allowing them to “Master Every Moment”.
A career at Breville is truly a one-of-a-kind experience. It’s more than working for a global leader; it’s an opportunity to be a part of something that impacts people all over the world.
The successful candidate will be required to travel to China as part of this role.
What you will do in this role:
Research
⋅ Conduct and synthesise primary and secondary research, including interviews and usability testing, to provide evidence-based recommendations.
⋅ Translate research findings into actionable design implications and communicate them effectively to cross-functional teams.
Ideation and Concept Creation
⋅ Contribute meaningful ideas in workshops, applying brand direction and consumer insight.
⋅ Produce 2D and 3D representations that clearly communicate intent and enable team discussion.
⋅ Explore prototyping methods appropriate to the project stage, testing assumptions, and gathering feedback.
Detail Design
⋅ Develop efficient CAD models and assemblies that meet mechanical, manufacturing, and compliance standards.
⋅ Manage CAD libraries, documentation, and supplier exchanges with increasing autonomy.
⋅ Apply colour, graphics, and materials knowledge to deliver product-appropriate solutions within project timelines.
User Experience
⋅ Apply consumer usability insights to guide product design choices and reduce user maintenance effort.
⋅ Develop and refine user flows that balance simplicity for beginners with flexibility for experts.
⋅ Create functional prototypes to validate hypotheses and gather feedback from stakeholders.
Validating Design Intent
⋅ Conduct structured performance and life testing with limited supervision, interpreting data to inform design decisions.
⋅ Collaborate with engineers to identify potential failure modes and propose improvements.
⋅ Ensure compliance with relevant safety standards and support testing through external labs where required.
Delivering the Design
⋅ Collaborate with suppliers to resolve tooling and production challenges, applying methods that balance aesthetics and manufacturability.
⋅ Contribute to cost tracking and assembly cost management, helping ensure designs align with commercial targets.
⋅ Lead portions of verification and validation testing, ensuring accuracy and compliance with protocols.
Manufacturing Knowledge
⋅ Apply knowledge of injection moulding, casting, and fabrication processes to ensure designs are practical and achievable.
⋅ Review DFM documents and raise risks with moderate guidance, proposing adjustments to improve manufacturability.
⋅ Select and apply appropriate joining and finishing methods, ensuring fit and finish requirements are met.
Intellectual Property
⋅ Interpret search results and define inventive features with some guidance.
⋅ Prepare accurate invention drawings and supporting documentation.
Project Skills
⋅ Engage with stakeholders by listening and capturing input, ensuring all voices are considered.
⋅ Support task sizing and sequencing in planning ceremonies, taking responsibility for assigned tasks.
⋅ Identify and escalate potential risks or blockers to senior team members.
Critical Thinking & Communication
⋅ Evaluate information and arguments, testing accuracy and reliability before forming conclusions.
⋅ Confidently articulate ideas in meetings and presentations, adapting style to different audiences.
⋅ Write clearly and succinctly to document and share outcomes with stakeholders.
Balancing Desirability, Feasibility, and Viability
⋅ Conduct research into consumer needs and communicate findings to project teams.
⋅ Identify potential imbalances between consumer expectations, cost, and execution feasibility.
⋅ Provide input into decision-making by weighing trade-offs between time, cost, and consumer appeal.
We’re Interested in Hearing from People Who Have:
- 4-10 years experience, strong practical skills in CAD modelling, prototyping, CMF application, and design visualisation, enabling contribution across all stages of development.
- Ability to conduct and apply user research, usability testing, and empathy-driven insights to create intuitive and high-performing product experiences.
- Increasing autonomy in leading design tasks or streams, showing sound judgment and proactively solving design and technical challenges.
- Comfortable working with engineers, product managers, suppliers, and manufacturing teams to ensure alignment between design intent and technical realities.
- Capacity to define meaningful design opportunities, generate innovative solutions, and communicate them clearly through sketching, modelling, or prototyping.
- Understanding of DFM, DFA, tooling strategies, and manufacturing constraints to support product feasibility and transition to production.
To Apply:
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