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Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Job Description

We are looking for an Industrial Designer to join our Moen Industrial Design team with a desire to revolutionize the way people experience water in the home. You will have the privilege of collaborating with an award-winning global team to develop meaningful innovations and distinctive collections that serve a wide range of user needs and aspirations. Together, we will work towards our Mission Moen goals of saving 1 trillion gallons of water and repurposing 2,000 tons of ocean plastics by the year 2030. As a designer for America’s #1 trusted faucet company, your work will positively impact the lives of millions of people across the country and beyond.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the lead industrial designer on cross-functional Moen project teams with design integrity and a passion for meaningful collaboration to balance what is desirable to our end users, what is viable for the business goals, what is feasible to manufacture.
• Independently lead multiple fast-paced projects at one time with mentorship from senior industrial designers.
• Individually lead each phase of the design process across discovery research, initial concept development and testing, final CAD development, and final design story documentation.
• Manage support from other industrial designers as needed with thoughtful delegation skills.
• Initiate thorough design briefs to refine relevant style targets, define user requirements and to communicate necessary design tasks and timelines - enabling upfront alignment across project teams and relevant stakeholders.
• Apply advanced elements of art and principles of design to form, color, finishes and graphics while balancing user-centered functionality and ergonomics.
• Create sketches and 3D prototypes to explore ergonomic, human factors and form issues.
• Develop cohesive product collections that possess shared strong visual collection language elements.
• Define refined concepts with detailed color, material, and finish documentation.
• Communicate with vendors, suppliers, engineering, product owners, and project managers to ensure concepts are clearly understood and enable effective collaboration to refine final CAD models for feasible manufacturing.
• Create presentations that clearly communicate the authentic design story for each project to inform authentic storytelling across all commercialization strategies and marketing content creation.
• Collaborate with consumer insights and user experience teams to actively participate in and promote discovery research and on-trend and design style research to build the “design story.”
• Travel domestically and internationally to industry trade shows and design fairs to track global design industry trends and present top opportunities to inspire the business.
• Propel and evolve the Moen visual brand language to meaningfully embody our core values.
• Develop impactful, award-winning designs to elevate the Moen brand. 
• Occasionally collaborate with design teams supporting fellow FBIN brands within House of Rohl, Outdoors, Security and Connected Products - creating impactful synergies for the organization.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in industrial design is required.
• 3-6 years of Industrial Design experience is required.
• Demonstrated ability to execute responsibilities listed above.
• Advanced skill and experience in the following is required:
  • 2-D hand + digital sketching and rendering skills:
    • Programs: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), Sketchbook Pro, etc.,
  • 3-D digital modeling and rendering skills:
    • Programs: Solidworks, Keyshot
    • Solidworks experience is preferred as this will be the mandatory CAD package for all Moen projects to ensure efficient collaboration with engineering teams.
    • CSWA – solidworks
  • Strong verbal and visual presentation skills:
    • Programs: InDesign, PPT, Miro
    • Ability to clearly communicate design inspiration and intent internally to project teams and leadership teams as well as externally to customers and merchants.
• A strong work ethic and ability to manage multiple complex and fast-paced projects at once.

• A keen eye for global trend forecasting across macro cultural drivers, fashion, architecture, furniture, housewares, kitchen, bath, and CMF.
• A strong passion for thoughtful form development across ALL décor styles from traditional to contemporary.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and demonstrated ability to preserve design intent while working with tight manufacturing constraints. Experience with metal casting processes is a plus.
• Flexible, creative, resilient, and driven to maintain design excellence from project start to finish.
• Team-focused attitude, with the desire to share knowledge, assist others and work together to achieve great results.

Additional Information

Additional Information

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $55,000 USD - $88,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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