Job Description

3 positions | Full time | Delhi | On site

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Job description

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We make physical things.

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Things you hold, open, close, twist, squeeze, apply, dispense and occasionally wonder why nobody designed better in the first place.

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Neural Hinge is looking for three Physical Product Designers to join us in Delhi.

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We work on applicators, dispensing systems, packaging, mechanisms and physical product experiences, mostly across beauty, skincare, personal care, healthcare and adjacent categories.

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And quite often, on things that don't have a convenient category yet.

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What you will actually do

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You will take problems, observations and half formed ideas and give them physical form.

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Sometimes there will be a proper brief.

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Sometimes there will be a reference product and a conversation.

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Sometimes someone will put three unrelated objects on the table and ask:

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"What if these had a child?"

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You will sketch.

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You will think in three dimensions.

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You will explore form, proportion, interaction, material, movement and detail.

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You will draw.

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You will render.

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You will prototype.

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You will work alongside people figuring out mechanisms, materials, manufacturing and IP.

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And you will watch some very good looking ideas die because they don't work.

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Then make better ones.

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That last bit is critical.

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At Neural Hinge, a design eventually has to leave the screen.

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Someone has to hold it.

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Use it.

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Manufacture it.

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Buy it.

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And preferably want to pick it up again.

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What we are looking for

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Experience is genuinely no bar.

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You could have spent 12 years designing products.

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You could have spent two.

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You could still be in college and be unusually good.

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Your education matters. Your portfolio matters. Your software skills matter.

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But we are interested in something underneath all of those.

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Can you see?

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Can you notice something other people walk past?

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Can you look at an ordinary object and wonder why it is shaped that way?

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Can you tell when a proportion is slightly wrong before you can quite explain why?

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Can you take an unclear problem and find several possible physical answers rather than waiting for somebody to tell you what to draw?

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Can you move between imagination and reality without becoming too precious about either?

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That is much closer to what we are looking for.

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Three things matter a lot here

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Intelligence. Determination. Integrity.

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Intelligence, for us, includes curiosity, observation, judgement and the ability to make connections between things that don't obviously belong together.

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Determination means you can stay with an idea after version three wasn't nearly as brilliant as it looked in your head.

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Integrity means we can trust your work, your word and your contribution.

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We can teach categories.

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We can teach processes.

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We can teach you a surprising amount about applicators, dispensing systems, plastics, elastomers, manufacturing and why a 0.3 mm change can occasionally ruin everybody's afternoon.

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Curiosity is considerably harder to install.

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A little about Neural Hinge

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We are an independent innovation company based in Delhi and working globally with brands and manufacturers.

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Our world sits somewhere between design,



invention, physical product development, manufacturing and intellectual property.

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We spend a slightly unreasonable amount of time thinking about how products interact with people.

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How something feels in the hand.

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How it opens.

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How it dispenses.

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How it applies.

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How much control it gives you.

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What happens when material, mechanism and form start affecting each other.

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And whether changing one tiny thing can make the whole experience better.

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You do not need to arrive knowing the beauty industry.

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In fact, we are interested in people coming from industrial design, consumer products, automotive, appliances, furniture, toys, medical devices, footwear, consumer electronics and places we haven't thought of.

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Positive ideas are promiscuous. They travel between industries surprisingly well.

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Before you apply

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Please send us your CV and portfolio.

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But don't make the portfolio beautiful for our benefit.

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We would rather understand how you think.

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Show us the sketches before the render.

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Show us alternatives you killed.

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Show us something that failed.

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Show us the ugly prototype.

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Show us the idea you still love even though nobody else did.

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And if there is one physical thing you have designed, made, modified or figured out that you are unusually proud of, make sure we can find it.

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Tell us what the problem was.

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Tell us what you actually did.

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Tell us what changed between the first idea and the final one.

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We are considerably more interested in the journey between those two points than another perfectly lit render on a white background.

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Email: [email protected]

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If reading this made you think, this sounds like fun, we should probably talk.

📌 Physical Product Design Lead (New Delhi)
🏢 Neural Hinge
📍 New Delhi