Associate, Product Design

The team you will be a part of

This role in summary

A portfolio highlighting multiple projects and your direct contributions will be needed to be considered for the role.

The CMF Designer will support the creation of strategic palette development for use across Whirlpool's global product portfolio. The CMF designer will also ensure CMF strategies support and further enhance the brand experience.

This position is multi-disciplinary— the desire and ability to seamlessly work with other functions [Industrial Design, Interactive Design, Graphic Design, Marketing, and Engineering] in our US, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Mexico studios is critical.

Your responsibilities will include

• Support the strategy and implementation of color, material and finish solutions for multiple brands of home appliances

• Forecast and analyze color, material and finish trends

• Present and communicate color direction and strategy to a wide audience

• Produce high quality renderings to effectively illustrate CMF solutions

• Collaborate with other design disciplines, product marketing, engineering, and vendors to execute on project objectives, deliverables, and timelines

• Maintain and communicate CMF strategy documents

• Contribute to the maintenance of the CMF library

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Industrial Design or equivalent creative background

• 0 – 3 years of relevant design experience

Preferred skills and experiences

• Demonstrate passion for color and design

• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to facilitate communication across different disciplines 

• Strong visual communication skills

• Ability to effectively sell your ideas

• Excellent attention to detail

• Strong decision-making abilities and self-motivation 

• Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and KeyShot

• 3D modeling ability is a plus

What we offer

• Wedding bonus;
• Subsidy at accredited pharmacies for the purchase of prescribed medications;
• Access to the Company Recreation Club available for affiliated employees and guests;
• Discount on products through Compra Certa;
• Discount on insurance (pet, auto, home, bike, travel, and more);
• Gympass;
• Employee Support Program, providing 24-hour assistance with legal, social, financial, social workers, and psychologists;
• Daycare assistance or Nursery at the company for female employees;
• Benefits such as consigned or social loans, health plan, dental plan, life insurance, and private pension plans competitive with the market;
• Services available on-site: cafeteria, internal bank branch, and lactation room;
• Transportation voucher, Shuttle buses or Free parking at the company;
• Food voucher; 
• Meals on-site;
• Two weeks of remote work from anywhere; 
• After 5 years with the company, eligible employees can take four weeks of paid leave;
• Extended maternity/paternity leave.
  Learn more at https://www.whirlpoolcareers.com/trabalhe-conosco-no-brasil/

Additional information

This position is located at Joinville, the largest city in Santa Catarina state and an important industrial, financial and commercial center of the south region of Brazil. Here in this factory is centered the production of refrigerators, freezers, dryers, water purifiers and B.Blend machines. Also, here it's the base of the global product research and development team in Brazil for the refrigeration, air conditioning, water purifiers, cooking and eletronic areas.