Product Developer

• Do you love creative environments working with people equally passionate about design as you are?
• Do you have experience within Product Development, Product Documentation, Industrial Design or similar?
• You wish to become a part of a creative office in the heart of Copenhagen?

If yes, please read on!

PRODUCT DEVELOPER – LIGHTING (MATERNITY COVER)

Based in Copenhagen

At our office facilities in the heart of Copenhagen, you will become part of an energetic office community, consisting of approx. 6 colleagues looking forward to welcoming you in our team. The position is a maternity cover starting from June, or as soon as possible hereafter and will last for approx. one year.

About the job

As a Product Developer – Lighting at HAY, you will be responsible for and work with creating, maintaining and assisting with the development of 2D documentation that is essential to the production and quality assurance of our lighting products. You will be responsible for communication between the Product development (PD) team, Customer Service (CS), Product Compliance (PC) and Quality (QC) within Denmark as well as Pacific Asia.

Your daily tasks will include:

• Secure and assist with the handover of new products to customer service and quality assurance
• Liaise with Master Data, taking responsibility for our internal handover of key data packs from PD for all development projects
• Creating quality documentation for all our existing and future HAY lighting items.
• Prepare 2D packaging die cuts, labels and product safety label artworks
• Update and maintain data in smartsheet across the lighting assortment
• Update and maintain production documents and surface descriptions for new as well as existing lighting developments
• Liaise with product compliance as well as third party labs on testing documentation.
• Supporting with some simple 3D development tasks when required

Are you the Product Developer we are looking for?

Role expectations

• You are passionate, detailed and pragmatic, with an interest in contemporary design
• We highly value the HAY culture, and therefore we are looking for a team player, who is willing to go the extra mile for your colleagues
• You thrive in a dynamic and international environment

Experience required

• You have an undergraduate study or masters in Product Development, Product Documentation, Industrial Design or similar
• Other than the day-to-day use of Microsoft Office and smartsheets, you are a competent user of the Adobe Creative Suite, primarily Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop
• Ideally, you have some basic knowledge of 3D modeling, exporting both 3D and 2D drawings from Solidworks, as well as documenting the quality assurance of physical products
• Any prior experience or internship within a product development or product documentation role is a big bonus, especially within decorative lighting design and development, but not essential
• You master both Danish and English at a high level, as we are an international company

You want to be a part of HAY?

Then do not hesitate to send us your application and CV as soon as possible and no later than Wednesday 30 April. We evaluate candidates on an ongoing basis.

If you have any further questions regarding the position, please do not hesitate to contact John Cain at john_cain@hermanmiller.com.

About HAY

Founded in Copenhagen in 2002 with the ambition of creating contemporary furniture, lighting and accessories for modern living, HAY’s vision is to create high-quality and well-designed products in collaboration with some of the world’s most talented, curious, and courageous designers. Through the commitment to sophisticated industrial manufacturing processes, HAY strives to make good design accessible to the widest possible audience.