Senior Industrial Design, Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead industrial design for future WHOOP hardware, bands, accessories, and wearable ecosystems from concept through production.
• Translate user, athlete, member, and market insights into design strategies, product architectures, and differentiated physical experiences.
• Create compelling design concepts through sketching, 3D modeling, prototyping, visualization, and storytelling.
• Drive ergonomic studies, wearability testing, fit analysis, and human factors exploration to ensure products perform across body types, activities, environments, and use cases.
• Partner closely with Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Sensors, Apparel, Product, and Manufacturing to balance design intent, technical feasibility, performance, comfort, durability, and cost.
• Lead CMF direction in collaboration with CMF and Brand partners, ensuring every material, finish, texture, and color decision reinforces the WHOOP design language.
• Build and evolve design systems for WHOOP hardware, accessories, and on-body experiences, creating consistency while enabling future innovation.
• Prototype rapidly across fidelity levels, from rough physical mockups to refined appearance models and functional wear-test samples.
• Guide design decisions through clear rationale, strong visual communication, and a deep understanding of member needs.
• Mentor industrial designers and contribute to a high-performance creative culture rooted in craft, rigor, curiosity, and accountability.
• Present design work to senior leadership, clearly articulating the strategic, experiential, technical, and business rationale behind key decisions.
• Partner with external vendors, model shops, factories, and development partners to preserve design intent through tooling, validation, and production.
• Stay ahead of trends in wearables, health technology, performance apparel, fashion, materials, manufacturing, and culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industrial design experience, with significant experience in consumer electronics, wearables, health technology, performance products, footwear, apparel, or technically complex consumer goods.
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional taste, concept development, design process, problem solving, prototyping, and production execution.
• Proven experience bringing products from early concept through manufacturing and launch.
• Deep understanding of ergonomics, body-worn products, soft goods, hard goods, materials, CMF, manufacturing processes, and design for scale.
• Strong 2D and 3D design skills, including sketching, CAD, rendering, visualization, and physical prototyping.
• Ability to lead ambiguous, future-facing design programs while also managing the details required to ship excellent products.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams on technically constrained products.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
• A refined aesthetic point of view and a high bar for proportion, detail, materiality, usability, and emotional resonance.
• A collaborative, low-ego leadership style with the ability to mentor designers and elevate the work of a broader team.
• Passion for health, fitness, sport, human performance, design innovation, and the future of wearable technology.

Additional information

This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.

Interested in the role, but don’t meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply.

The WHOOP compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent by offering competitive base salaries, meaningful equity, and consistent pay practices that reflect our mission and core values.

Pay and benefits

At WHOOP, we view total compensation as the combination of base salary, equity, and benefits, with equity serving as a key differentiator that aligns our employees with the long-term success of the company and allows every member of our corporate team to own part of WHOOP and share in the company’s long-term growth and success.

The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $170,000. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within each range, individual pay is based on factors such as job-related skills, experience, performance, and relevant education or training.

In addition to the base salary, the successful candidate will also receive benefits and a generous equity package.

These ranges may be modified in the future to reflect evolving market conditions and organizational needs. While most offers will typically fall toward the starting point of the range, total compensation will depend on the candidate’s specific qualifications, expertise, and alignment with the role’s requirements.