Industrial Designer

Industrial Designer / Product Development

📍 Location: Chantilly, VA (5 miles south of Washington Dulles Airport)

📋 Reports to: Director of Product

Why Join BDI?

At BDI, we design high-end, modern furniture that enhances the way people work, live, and entertain. We’re not just another furniture company—we are design-driven and execution-focused, ensuring that every product we create is both beautiful and functional.

We believe in work-life balance, intellectual curiosity, and continuous improvement. Our team is small but highly skilled, and we expect each person to contribute at a high level. If you thrive in environments where ideas turn into reality, where you own your projects from development to production, and where design excellence meets real-world execution, we’d love to hear from you.

What Makes This Role Exciting?

This is not a passive role where you simply push designs forward. Instead, you will:

✔️ Shape the future of BDI’s products – Your design work will directly impact the next generation of high-end furniture.

✔️ Work with world-class suppliers – Collaborate with top-tier manufacturers to bring innovative designs to life.

✔️ Be a problem solver – Beyond creating designs, you’ll engineer solutions that balance beauty, durability, and manufacturability.

✔️ Own your outcomes – You’ll see projects through from sketch to final production, ensuring that great ideas become reality.

What Success Looks Like (One Year In)

By this time next year, you will have:

• Designed & developed multiple market-ready furniture pieces.
• Mastered BDI’s approach to designing for both aesthetics and manufacturability.
• Enhanced supplier collaboration, ensuring smooth execution from prototype to production.
• Improved quality & efficiency, identifying and solving design challenges before they reach manufacturing.

Your Responsibilities

• Research market trends and user needs to inform product innovation.
• Generate high-quality design concepts that balance form, function, and manufacturability.
• Prototype and test designs using various materials and methods (woodworking, metalworking, foamcore, etc.).
• Engineer for reality – Optimize material selection, manufacturability, and cost-efficiency.
• Conduct design reviews to proactively mitigate risks before production.
• Collaborate with suppliers to refine prototypes, review samples, and implement quality improvements.
• Create clear and detailed 3D models and drawings for production.
• Develop and refine QC checklists and feedback documentation to ensure final production meets expectations.
• Travel overseas to factories to evaluate and document new samples and production (1-2 trips annually)

The Ideal Candidate Has:

Technical Skills

✔️ Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design

✔️ 5 years in product development & engineering (furniture experience a plus)

✔️ Expertise in 3D CAD software (Autodesk Inventor & Vault preferred)

✔️ Strong understanding of manufacturing processes (wood, metal, glass, finishing techniques)

✔️ Experience with value engineering, FEA analysis, and optimizing material & container yields

✔️ Familiarity with quality control methodologies (8D, 5 Why’s, Fishbone Diagrams, FMEA)

Soft Skills

✔️ Driven and self-motivated – You take initiative and don’t wait for instructions.

✔️ Clear communicator – You can explain complex ideas to non-technical people.

✔️ Detail-oriented – You sweat the small stuff and refine until it’s right.

✔️ Resilient & adaptable – You find solutions, not excuses.

✔️ Analytical thinker – You make data-driven decisions and design cost/benefit tradeoffs.

✔️ Cultural awareness – You know how to work effectively with international suppliers.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation & benefits
• A high-impact role in an award-winning company
• A team that values intelligence, creativity, and execution
• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge furniture designs
• A culture where good ideas thrive, and great work gets recognized
• A hybrid work model that responds to the needs of our team as well as the needs of the product development process

🔹 Ready to shape the future of furniture design? Apply now!

To apply, please email cover letter, resume, and portfolio in pdf format (under 10MB), or link to on-line portfolio, by e-mail.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Generous Employee Discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Chantilly, VA 20151: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Industrial Design, Manufacturing Engineers: 5 years (Preferred)