Senior Industrial Designer

Lime is the largest global shared micromobility business, operating in close to 30 countries across five continents. We’re on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Our electric bikes and scooters have powered more than one billion rides in cities around the world. Named a 2025 Time 100 Most Influential Company, Lime continues to set the pace for shared micromobility globally, spurring a new generation of clean alternatives to car ownership.

Lime is hiring a Senior Industrial Designer to join our dynamic Hardware Design team. We are seeking a creative, thoughtful and knowledgeable designer to help us craft the future of shared micro-mobility hardware. In this role, you will work alongside the SF based design team and imagine industry leading hardware products and experiences start-to-finish through concepting, prototyping, detailed refinement, and DFM support. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on industrial designer to make an impact delivering sustainable, intuitive, and lasting mobility solutions at a fast-moving company.

This is a hybrid position that combines remote and onsite work. The incumbent will be required to be onsite at our San Francisco Hardware Development Lab 2-3 days each week.

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  Lead projects that impact Lime riders globally, from conception to market launch.

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  Collaborate daily with ID, ME, and broader crossfunctional stakeholders to provide multifaceted design solutions, proactively guiding programs and escalating risks through impactful visualization and design work.

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  Mentor design team members, providing project feedback and support ID skill development.

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  Develop and present elegant industrial design solutions for compelling, mass-produced mobility products – with an eye towards manufacturability and durability - for our current and future fleets.

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  Create lightweight, rapid concept mock-ups for stakeholder review and develop great designs through iterative prototyping at our in-house 3D print lab and metal shop.

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  Execute a well-rounded design process - including sketching, complex 3D surface development, detail refinement, CMF, and excellent presentation storytelling - to drive high-quality ID team outputs from problem statement to final delivery.
  

• You are a curious, organized and hands-on industrial designer that likes to prototype and test your ideas.

• You love to think broadly and connect culture, user experience, and business value to your design concepts.

• You are a proactive team player, eager to jump in and contribute to the team’s goals and design our culture.

• You are comfortable moving open-ended projects forward with limited direction; driving execution by setting clear deliverables and milestones.

• You have experience designing products from start to finish collaborating with engineering development and defending key details to maintain ID and UX integrity.

• You hold a high bar for excellence in industrial design.

• You are comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders to understand complex problems and collaboratively identify pragmatic paths forward based on design impact.

• You craft and present high impact design presentations to leadership, building strong narrative supporting industrial design work.

• You have experience as a project team lead.

Preferred Experience:

• BA in Industrial Design with 7+ years of industrial design experience.

• A portfolio showcasing recent in-market products you’ve designed described with a thorough ID process, polished skillset, and refined aesthetic sense.

• Proficiency with Solidworks, Keyshot and Adobe Creative Suite.

• Experience using AI tools (ie Vizcom etc.) in creative workflow

• Experience developing ruggedized, transportation or micromobility products, in addition to consumer products.

• Experience working with overseas teams and vendors.

• Ability to travel to Lime markets and factories in the US, Europe, and Asia as needed.