Lead/Senior Industrial Product Designer

Are you passionate about collaborative design, meaningful user experiences, and building world-class products from concept to creation? Then apply now!

About Canon Production Printing

Canon Production Printing has a great history in product development. Our innovations have always been focused on printing and copying. Currently we are expanding into the world of graphic arts. With over 100 international design awards, our strength in product design is recognized throughout the world. We share our knowledge and keep learning from others with our strong links with universities and regular lectures at symposia.

We develop and manufacture high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market as part of Canon, a global leader in imaging technologies. With around 3,300 employees across three continents and our headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands, we innovate to create high-quality solutions that add color to the world. Guided by the philosophy of Kyosei—living and working together for the common good—our culture is built on openness, collegiality, trust and stability. We empower our people to grow, take initiative, and make an impact.

With our company values collaboration, innovation and ownership, we strive to bring out the best in each other, expand boundaries and feel empowered to take ownership of our work.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior/Lead Industrial Product Designer you are going to translate Canon Production Printing’s brand equity into high quality product designs in which product identity and optimal ergonomics are central. Product Design at CPP is about both design and implementation. You work on the quality, innovativeness and vision of CPP’s brand equity, in collaboration with our design colleagues in Tokyo. As an in-house designer, you build and nourish a portfolio of products.

As part of our Research & Development organization, you’ll work alongside highly skilled professionals to design the next generation of our products. In multidisciplinary project teams, you shape, refine, safeguard, and implement your design ideas all the way into final products. You continuously aim higher and are driven to create innovative, excellent, and groundbreaking solutions.

Exciting changes in technology will change the way users interact with products. You imagine how these changes could influence and benefit our products. With your creative vision and designs you ensure we are at the forefront of these changes.

Who You’ll Work With

The CPP Design team (~25 professionals) is primarily located in Venlo and collaborates with all CPP sites worldwide, as well as with our design colleagues in Tokyo. Our goal is to create high-quality products for professionals through one unified user experience for all CPP solutions: hardware, software as well as services. The focus of the team is on design research, UX design, product design and usability design.

What You Bring

We are looking for someone with a passion for product design, brand identity and user experience. You are a team player with a positive drive and an independent attitude, who enjoys taking product ownership and initiative.

Furthermore, you meet the following requirements:

• A bachelor/master degree in Industrial Product Design
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design process experience for a variety of products. We would like to receive this portfolio together with your resume and cover letter
• Knowledge of production processes and materials, strong awareness of aesthetic excellence and design quality
• Hands-on mentality. Not afraid to create mock-ups to demonstrate the value of design.
• Able and enjoy to work on a large variety of projects at the same time
• You thrive in international teams and are fluent in spoken and written English. Dutch is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Available for a minimum of 32 hours per week
• You are eligible to work in the Netherlands

This vacancy is located in Venlo, Limburg, The Netherlands. Please note that applications without portfolio will not be considered.

What You’ll Get From Us

We provide an exciting, dynamic work environment with plenty of opportunity for you to develop personally and professionally. We offer excellent conditions to help you be who you want to be:

• A competitive salary in line with your educational background and experience (range €5500 - €7000 gross per month)
• 38 vacation days
• Extra 13th month pay (8.6%), holiday allowance (8%) and commuting allowance
• Hybrid working for a healthy work-life balance
• A huge range of training and professional development opportunities
• A laptop and smartphone
• An interesting lease (e-)bike plan