Industrial Designer - New Product Development

About Us

TentBox was established in 2015, and is the UK’s leading roof tent brand and the facilitator of unforgettable outdoor experiences. 

We’re revolutionising adventure and making outdoor exploration simpler and more convenient with a range of high-performance roof tents. So whether you’re a novice camping family, an experienced solo-explorer – or anything in between – you can embrace the freedom to get out and see the world.

Our Values

Exceptional Products

Product quality is at the core of everything we do. All our products are designed by our world-class product team in the UK.

Unrivalled Customer Service

We care deeply about our customer service, and work tirelessly to ensure everyone has a positive experience with TentBox.

Inclusive Community

The TentBox Community is everything to us. We understand that a TentBox is so much more than a product – it's a lifestyle. 

The Role

We’re looking for a talented and passionate Industrial Designer with an exceptional eye for detail to join our NPD team. This is an exciting opportunity to create visually striking, market-disrupting products that solve everyday consumer problems. Working across multiple product categories you will be the creative bridge between our buying team and our manufacturing partners. Your mission is to take high potential, off-the-shelf products and inject them with the unmistakable TentBox look, feel and user experience.

This is a fast-paced, high-impact role within an expanding side of the business. You’ll be applying your expert design eye to visually resolve both new and off the shelf development. We need a delivery-focused designer who can switch gears between a "light touch" (aesthetic alignment) and a "heavy touch" (redesign) across a diverse and fast-moving product roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

Brand Integration: Deliver our Design Language, ensuring a cohesive aesthetic, material palette, and user experience across a diverse range of products.

Rapid Refinement: Support the buying team by evaluating factory samples and identifying the key modifications needed to elevate them to TentBox standards.

Strategic Execution: Balance design ambition with commercial reality. You’ll manage the level of design modifications of projects to meet deadlines without compromising on the brand's premium feel.

Design Communication: Create high-quality visualisations, CMF (Color, Material, Finish) specifications, and tech packs to clearly communicate required changes to Far East partners.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with the buying and engineering teams to ensure that TentBox products are not only beautiful but durable, functional, and commercially viable.

Quality & User Experience Guardianship: Oversee every touchpoint, from hardware feel to intuitive assembly, ensuring it is easy to use and feels high quality

Prototype Development & Testing: Ability to design, build, and test mechanical prototypes in controlled environments.

The Ideal Candidate

A Sharp Design Eye: A portfolio that demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of form, branding, and detail. You know how to make a product look and feel in-line with a brand's aesthetic.

Agility & Pace: Experience working in a fast-turnaround environment. Ability to use a range of tools to quickly and effectively communicate idea intent. You are delivery-focused and thrive on seeing products move from concept to shelf quickly.

Technical Versatility: A degree in Industrial Design or Product Design, with a solid grasp of how to adapt designs for various manufacturing processes.

Software Fluency: High proficiency in 2D and 3D tools (SolidWorks/Rhino, Keyshot, and Adobe Creative Suite) to visualise and communicate design intent.

Commercial Maturity: An understanding of how design decisions impact unit cost and lead times. You can defend your design choices while remaining pragmatic.

Communication: The ability to influence internal stakeholders and external factories, making sure the TentBox look and feel remains a priority in all products.

What We Offer

25 days annual leave + bank holidays / pro-rata

Private Health Care

Standard Nest Pension contributions

Staff discount

Location: This is an office-based role with flexibility to work from home, depending on the needs of the team (Southampton, UK)