Head of Product Design

Location: Hadapsar, Pune

Experience: 5+ years in industrial/product design of physical, mass-manufactured consumer products
About the Role

We are looking for a creative, hands-on Head of Product Design to lead the end-to-end design of physical products in categories like corporate gifting, home décor, and desk accessories. The ideal candidate will have a solid portfolio of taking concepts from sketch to prototyping, development, and mass manufacturing using materials such as plastic, MDF, acrylic, metal, glass, wood, and resin.

This is not a UI/UX, graphic design, or engineering design role. We need a product designer with a strong creative foundation and proven experience delivering finished, manufactured products.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the full product design lifecycle: concept ideation, sketching, 3D modelling, prototyping, design validation, and production handoff.
- Design new products and collections for corporate gifting, home décor, and desk accessories with a focus on aesthetics, functionality, and manufacturability.




- Select and apply materials (plastic, MDF, acrylic, metal, glass, wood, resin, etc.) and finishes appropriate to product intent, cost targets, and production processes.
- Create detailed design specifications, drawings, and BOM inputs for vendors and internal manufacturing teams.
- Collaborate with sourcing, production, and quality teams to ensure designs are feasible, cost-effective, and meet quality standards at scale.
- Research trends in home décor, gifting, and lifestyle products to build fresh, commercially viable design directions.
- Maintain organised design files, sample libraries, and documentation for repeatable production.
Must-Have Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in industrial/product design of physical, mass-manufactured consumer products.
- Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product journeys: concept prototype production retail/manufactured goods.
- Proven work with materia

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