Industrial Design, Lead

At WHOOP, we’re on a mission to unlock human performance and maximize healthspan. Our products empower members through deeper physiological understanding, enabling smarter decisions in training, recovery, sleep, and daily life.

The Creative Org defines how WHOOP is felt in the world. We are responsible for the physical manifestations of the brand, from hardware, bands, and accessories to collaborations, retail environments, pop-ups, and in-store moments. Working in close partnership across the company, we operate with high taste, deep craft, and exacting standards. This is a design team built on trust, candor, and a shared obsession with quality. We are empowered to initiate, to challenge, and to lead. Our mandate is simple and uncompromising: to deliver best-in-class design across every physical touchpoint and to make WHOOP unmistakable through clarity, restraint, and excellence.

As an Industrial Design, Lead, you will help shape the future of the WHOOP wearables ecosystem—creating elevated, member-centric products that integrate seamlessly into how people live, move, and perform. You will bring rigor, beauty, and innovation to objects worn 24/7 while setting a high bar for craft, performance, and design systems thinking.

This role calls for a visionary, detail-obsessed designer with a strong background in consumer electronics, softgoods, and wearables. You will lead complex programs, mentor designers, and drive concept-to-launch development across a broad range of physical products that bring the WHOOP experience to life.

RESPONSIBILITIES: :
• Lead Design Across Product Categories: Pearhead the design of performance-oriented wearables, charging systems, bands, accessories, packaging, and related ecosystem products.
• Drive Concept Through Production: Own projects from early research and sketching through prototyping, refinement, DFM, and final production confirmation, ensuring design intent carries through to the final product.
• User-Centered, Performance-Driven Innovation: Develop solutions grounded in user behavior, wearability, physiology, and ergonomic data. Translate insights into designs that elevate comfort, durability, and 24/7 performance.
• Rapid Prototyping & Experimentation: Use in-house and external prototyping resources to validate ergonomics, fit, usability, and CMF hypotheses quickly and iteratively.
• Material, CMF, & Process Expertise: Innovate with materials, hybrid soft/hard assemblies, and scalable manufacturing methods. Define CMF strategy across product categories ensuring consistency, durability, sustainability, and premium brand expression.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Apparel & Accessories, Hardware, Engineering, Product Marketing, Retail Experience and Development teams to deliver cohesive and seamless physical product experiences
• Deep Engineering & Manufacturing Integration: Collaborate with mechanical engineering and manufacturing partners to drive DFM, assess risk, and maintain design integrity throughout the development process.
• AI-Integrated Design Workflow: Leverage AI tools to accelerate concept generation, form exploration, CMF studies, and design iteration.
• Mentor & Elevate: Guide junior designers, raise the bar for craft and creativity, and contribute to a culture of high performance, clarity, and continuous improvement.
• Visual Storytelling & Communication: Create compelling visuals, renderings, decks, and storytelling artifacts for alignment across stakeholders, including leadership and executive teams.
• Global Production Interface: Collaborate with overseas manufacturing partners to ensure execution meets WHOOP’s quality, innovation, and aesthetic standards.
• Contribute to the WHOOP Design System: Help develop the long-term physical product design language and ecosystem strategy across generations of WHOOP hardware and accessories.

QUALIFICATIONS:
• 7–10 years of industrial design experience, with a strong focus on consumer goods, softgoods, wearables, and electronics.
• Exceptional portfolio demonstrating sophisticated form development, high-performance product design, and elevated execution in commercialized products.
• Mastery of 2D tools (Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma) and 3D tools (SolidWorks, Keyshot, 3D printing workflows).
• Proficiency with AI design tools for concepting and design acceleration.
• Proven ability to lead complex design programs with minimal oversight.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams on DFM and navigating offshore manufacturing processes.
• Deep knowledge of materials, CMF strategy, molding, lamination, bonding, and scalable production processes.
• Strong understanding of ergonomics, human factors, and products worn on the body.
• Highly organized, self-directed, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, growth-stage environment.

This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.

Interested in the role, but don’t meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply.

WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

The WHOOP compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent by offering competitive base salaries, meaningful equity, and consistent pay practices that reflect our mission and core values.

At WHOOP, we view total compensation as the combination of base salary, equity, and benefits, with equity serving as a key differentiator that aligns our employees with the long-term success of the company and allows every member of our corporate team to own part of WHOOP and share in the company’s long-term growth and success.

The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$150,000. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within each range, individual pay is based on factors such as job-related skills, experience, performance, and relevant education or training.
In addition to the base salary, the successful candidate will also receive benefits and a generous equity package.

These ranges may be modified in the future to reflect evolving market conditions and organizational needs. While most offers will typically fall toward the starting point of the range, total compensation will depend on the candidate’s specific qualifications, expertise, and alignment with the role’s requirements.

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