Industrial Designer

Job Description:

Salary: Competitive

Hours: Full Time

Location: Hybrid working with 3 days per week in our VHQ (Crawley, West Sussex)

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date:  27th March

Many of our people at Virgin work flexibly and in many different ways, including part-time or different core hours. Please talk to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need. We cant promise to give you exactly what you want, but we are happy to explore whats possible for the role.

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic, our purpose is to ensure everyone can take on the world. Our vision is to be the most loved travel company. To achieve both, we’re harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to reimagine the world and create thoughtful experiences that feel brilliantly different at every opportunity.

Our people are game changers who see the world differently. Acting as a loud and proud voice for positive change for our people, places, and the planet, they’re not afraid to roll up their sleeves to take on the big things while never forgetting the importance of the small details. So, if you’re ready to take your career to new heights, read on.

Virgin Atlantic are recruiting an Industrial Designer to join the multidisciplinary Experience Design team. The team work collaboratively with stakeholders from across the business to ideate, design, develop and deliver Product & Experience’s to the highest standards. Delivering projects within the airline and across the Virgin Atlantic product estate – ground, onboard & service experiences.

Day to day

As part of our award-winning Design Team, youll play a key role in shaping the airlines Customer Experience. We’re passionate about ideating, designing, developing, and implementing best-in-class, innovative experiences across every touchpoint, from airports (check-in, lounges…) to onboard (seating, social spaces, cabin…) to service and soft products. This role will be an integral part of the onboard team, focusing on designing the cabin and products that will define the future of air travel for Virgin Atlantic.

As a champion of customer experience, creative thinking and innovation, you will translate consumer trends and insights into purposeful ideas and designs, that truly make a difference. You will inspire those around you through your creativity and storytelling, ensuring that as a business we deliver excellence in industrial design to shape lasting customer experiences.

About you

Are you a passionate and experienced Industrial Designer? Are you passionate about defining best in class customer experiences? Would you love to work for an exciting and most loved travel brand?

We’d love for our successful candidate to have/be:

Previous industrial design experience working in one or more relevant design fields - transport, automotive, homeware, retail or hospitality.
Experience in effectively managing multiple projects concurrently, with direct management and collaboration with external agencies.
Strong conceptual design thinker and problem solver; underpinned by evidence of generating new ideas that challenge traditional frontiers of thought.
Ability to translate brand identity into meaningful and innovative design experiences through superior vision and eye for detail.
Ability to ideate and develop commercially viable design concepts from research through to production.
Highly adept in Design Communication, with a skilled approach to articulating concepts, and conveying design intent so that they are clear and understandable.
Confidence in working with a high degree of autonomy, taking ownership of quality, cost and timeliness of delivery.
An entrepreneurial hands-on approach
Proficient 2D creative & 3D modelling ability (Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino / Solidworks, Blender etc).
Knowledge of AI tools to support early-stage visualisation of ideas.

If this sounds like you and youre ready to take the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you!

Our recipe for leadership

At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? Click here

Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitmentfly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.

Job Ident #: 2650

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en

Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and operates to destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia from its main hub at London–Heathrow, and its secondary hub at Manchester

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Job Info

Location

Crawley , England, United Kingdom

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en