Lead Product Designer

About the Role

You will own the physical experience of our wearable, the way it looks, the way it feels on the head, and the way it integrates into someone's life. Our first product is a sensor-rich textile beanie: a multi-camera array, a multi-microphone array, open-ear speakers, a high-density EEG sensor array, a flex PCB with multiple rigid islands, and an onboard battery, all of which must disappear into a soft, beautiful object that someone wants to wear in public for hours at a time.

You will report to the Head of Hardware, with regular exposure to the CEO and CTO, and partner closely with the EE, FW, audio, camera, and reliability leads. The technical leads provide subsystem requirements; you decide how those requirements become a wearable object.

You will also work extensively with external engineering teams at our textile, mechanical, and electronics contract manufacturers. The work is outsourced; the accountability is yours.

What You’ll Do

• Own ID and ME for the wearable end-to-end: sketch through CAD, prototype, tooling, and DfM with overseas CMs.
• Lead the integration of electronics into soft goods: flex PCB packaging, rigid-island placement, textile-to-rigid transitions, weight distribution, thermal management, serviceability
• Define and enforce comfort engineering: pressure mapping, weight balance, skin-contact thermal limits, breathability, fit across head sizes and hair types, long-wear validation.
• Drive the design language and material story for our brand's physical products: fabrics, seams, transitions, how the device announces itself or fades into the background.
• Partner with the EE lead on rigid-island layout, antenna keep-outs, and electrode contact pressure; with audio and camera leads on acoustic ports, mic mesh, lens windows, and pod integration.
• Partner with the reliability lead on drop, ingress, thermal, and ergonomic robustness.
• Ship the product by end of year, and build and lead the product design function as ID and ME capability scales.

Must-Haves

• 10+ years of industrial design and/or mechanical engineering, with multiple shipped consumer wearables or comparable body-worn products.
• Demonstrated experience integrating electronics into soft goods or textile products (apparel, headwear, garments, or wearables with significant fabric content).
• Deep CAD proficiency (SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Rhino, or equivalent) and rendering (Keyshot or comparable).
• Strong instinct for comfort engineering: pressure points, weight, thermal, fit across diverse users, backed by structured wear testing and iteration.
• Experience driving DfM, tooling, and quality with overseas CMs.

Nice-to-Haves

• High-density biocompatible interfaces, dry electrode arrays, or other dense sensor-to-skin integrations.
• Soft goods sourcing and textile engineering: knit beanies, technical apparel, woven goods.
• Optical windows, acoustic ports, or sensor windows in consumer products.
• Biocompatibility, skin contact, and dermatological testing for body-worn products.
• A point of view about what makes a wearable beautiful rather than gadget-y.

Additional information

If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every qualification, please apply. As we build, we’re hiring for complementary strengths to form a high-impact team.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful equity package
• 401(k) with company matching
• Health insurance
• Flexible PTO

Our Hiring Timeline

• Evaluation completed within 14 days of first interview
• Offer letter dispatched same day as go decision, valid for 10 days
• Start date within 4 weeks of offer acceptance
• All candidate queries responded to within 3 hours during business hours