Product Design Developer - Living Room

Company Description
Would you like to be part of creating a better everyday life for the many people? By developing affordable products and solutions for people all around the world? Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden and here the IKEA range is developed based on the Democratic Design process and made available to stores and customers across the world.
In BA Living Room we are a diverse group of down-to-earth, straightforward people with a passion for home furnishing. We come from all over the world, but we share an inspiring vision: “to create a better everyday life for the many people”. We develop safe and affordable products for a beautiful, playful, and more convenient life at home. Everything we do is based on a spirit of togetherness and enthusiasm, and now we are looking for someone who share our positive attitude and values.
Job Description
We are looking for you who have both curiosity and insights into the needs and dreams of consumers and their life at home and know how to lead design processes with an entrepreneurial approach.
As a Product Design Developer at IKEA of Sweden, and specifically for BA Living Room, you bring product ideas to life through attention to all dimensions of the IKEA Democratic Design process, form, function, sustainability, low price, and quality. You will be part of engaging the full capabilities of the value chain to deliver democratic design products with unique IKEA identity. You will be developing our storage range, is central in the living room, solving a lot of problems and needs connected to the activity around storing and organizing
You will work together with a multifunctional team of experts in design, sourcing & supply, engineering, marketing & communication, and sales. Together, you co-create the final home furnishing product through a holistic and customer centric approach.
As a Product Design Developer for Business Area Living Room you are responsible for:
Leading the design development of better products delivering to all 5 dimensions of Democratic design being the specialist in form and function always starting with the price tag
The content of the product development project with both vision and action
Securing IKEA unique identity and Democratic Design in each and every product
Transforming knowledge in life at home to insights on a product level
Co-creating with development partners throughout total value chain, from consumer to supplier
When applicable, utilizing existing platforms, shared solutions, standard colours and materials to design for the lowest price possible
Identifying and enabling stories of the product design development to be used in communication
Contributing in creating a high performing project team through trustful relationships
Contributing in creating the Range and Product plan

Qualifications
To be successful, you need to work closely with your team members and be capable of visualizing ideas and concepts in a simple, clear and inspirational way to bring people on board in the product development process. You will work in close collaboration with other project teams within the business area as well as across others.
We also see it as meritable if you have proven experience from working with product development for storage and understand the complexity of constructing an attractive, desirable storage range.
A Product Design Developer is someone who has a genuine interest in people, their life at home and developing products; someone who can see things from a customer’s perspective and conceptualize things that don’t exist. To be successful in the job as a Product Design Developer, we expect you to have a university degree in a design discipline or product development or equivalent knowledge. You also have several years of experience in working with product development.
A Product Design Developer is innovative, curious and likes to challenge the existing. Someone with the ability to work with conceptual ideas, who can turn these into final solutions and to lead the content of the project from start to end.
You have an eye for design and get motivated by finding new ways of working. You love to work with future trends, needs, colors, materials etc. You are energetic, driven and determined, enjoy working closely with people, at a fast pace and have great communication skills.
Additional information
We look forward to receiving your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English latest 6th of March. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates.
If you have any questions about the position or the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Recruiter Jakob Bergström at +46 70-147 48 90. For questions regarding the position, please contact Hiring Manager Malin Ljungström at +46 766190982