Senior Industrial Design, Lead

Senior Industrial Design, Lead

Boston, MA

Industrial Design /

On-site

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At WHOOP, we are on a mission to unlock human performance and Healthspan. We build products that help people better understand their bodies, improve performance, recover smarter, and build healthier habits through continuous health monitoring and actionable insights. Our products sit at the intersection of hardware, software, data science, sport, health, fashion, and culture.

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. 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.

We are looking for a Senior Industrial Design, Lead to help define the future of WHOOP hardware and wearable experiences. This role is for a designer who can move fluidly between vision and execution, shaping product strategy while obsessing over the details of form, fit, material, finish, comfort, manufacturing, and long-term user behavior.

As Senior Industrial Design, Lead, you will own and drive industrial design across next-generation WHOOP products, accessories, and wearable systems. You will lead concept development, translate insights into compelling physical experiences, and partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Research, CMF, Apparel, Manufacturing, Brand, and Marketing teams to bring world-class products to market.

This person will help define how WHOOP shows up on the body, in sport, in daily life, and in culture. The ideal candidate has deep experience designing wearable products or technically complex consumer hardware, a refined aesthetic point of view, strong ergonomic intuition, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams from early exploration through mass production.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead industrial design for future WHOOP hardware, bands, accessories, and wearable ecosystems from concept through production.
• Translate user, athlete, member, and market insights into design strategies, product architectures, and differentiated physical experiences.
• Create compelling design concepts through sketching, 3D modeling, prototyping, visualization, and storytelling.
• Drive ergonomic studies, wearability testing, fit analysis, and human factors exploration to ensure products perform across body types, activities, environments, and use cases.
• Partner closely with Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Sensors, Apparel, Product, and Manufacturing to balance design intent, technical feasibility, performance, comfort, durability, and cost.
• Lead CMF direction in collaboration with CMF and Brand partners, ensuring every material, finish, texture, and color decision reinforces the WHOOP design language.
• Build and evolve design systems for WHOOP hardware, accessories, and on-body experiences, creating consistency while enabling future innovation.
• Prototype rapidly across fidelity levels, from rough physical mockups to refined appearance models and functional wear-test samples.
• Guide design decisions through clear rationale, strong visual communication, and a deep understanding of member needs.
• Mentor industrial designers and contribute to a high-performance creative culture rooted in craft, rigor, curiosity, and accountability.
• Present design work to senior leadership, clearly articulating the strategic, experiential, technical, and business rationale behind key decisions.
• Partner with external vendors, model shops, factories, and development partners to preserve design intent through tooling, validation, and production.
• Stay ahead of trends in wearables, health technology, performance apparel, fashion, materials, manufacturing, and culture.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8+ years of industrial design experience, with significant experience in consumer electronics, wearables, health technology, performance products, footwear, apparel, or technically complex consumer goods.
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional taste, concept development, design process, problem solving, prototyping, and production execution.
• Proven experience bringing products from early concept through manufacturing and launch.
• Deep understanding of ergonomics, body-worn products, soft goods, hard goods, materials, CMF, manufacturing processes, and design for scale.
• Strong 2D and 3D design skills, including sketching, CAD, rendering, visualization, and physical prototyping.
• Ability to lead ambiguous, future-facing design programs while also managing the details required to ship excellent products.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams on technically constrained products.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
• A refined aesthetic point of view and a high bar for proportion, detail, materiality, usability, and emotional resonance.
• A collaborative, low-ego leadership style with the ability to mentor designers and elevate the work of a broader team.
• Passion for health, fitness, sport, human performance, design innovation, and the future of wearable technology.

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 $130,000 - $170,000. 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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