Sr. Industrial Designer (Packaging)

Job description

Sandisk is looking for a Senior Packaging Industrial Designer to join global industrial design team to design 3D structural packaging solutions for world‑class consumer storage products. This role is ideal for an industrial designer with demonstrated experience in high-volume consumer packaging. You will champion out-of-box experience, brand identity, sustainability, and manufacturability to strengthen Sandisk’s leadership in consumer technology design and user experience. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: • Develop structural packaging designs for a range of product categories, including portable & desktop SSDs, USB drives, memory cards, readers, and accessories. • Explore innovative packaging solutions that enhance out-of-box experience and product presentation on the shelf. • Support development of packaging design systems that can be applied towards different product categories. • Partner with packaging artwork designers to ensure brand identity, product messaging, and product imagery can be executed well. • Engage with insights and product marketing team to evaluate packaging solutions for specific user segments and use cases. • Collaborate with packaging engineers and suppliers to translate concepts into manufacturable and durable product packaging. • Review supplier samples as needed with packaging design system to ensure design integrity is maintained. • Engage with suppliers and other resources to identify new materials and processes to improve sustainability and elevate overall user experience. Required: • Bachelor’s degree in industrial design or equivalent. • Must have 5-7+ years of structural packaging design experience for high-volume consumer products. • Demonstrated success in designing packaging with best-in-class out-of-box experience across different product tiers and categories. • Strong understanding of packaging materials, processes, and finishes, including manufacturability, cost, sustainability, and trends. • Ability to incorporate packaging artwork elements, such as branding, messaging, and imagery into structural packaging designs. • Ability to solve problems with other functional groups. • Excellent visual and verbal communication and presentation skills. • Advanced proficiency in 3D CAD modeling (SolidWorks), rendering (Keyshot) and 2D design tools (Adobe Creative Cloud). Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape. Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality. Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.