NPI Design Manager

About us

At Dyson we think differently, challenge convention and are unafraid to make mistakes. We’re creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic. In our world‑class Research, Design & Development (RDD) organisation you’ll work with leading technical specialists and highly motivated, creative people to invent, design and develop market‑leading products. Truly different and better.

About the role

As an NPI Design Manager, you will drive lead a multi-disciplinary team of engineers who are tasked with the discovery and development of disruptive new product concepts, new to market features and technologies. You will be accountable for the collective ideation within your team’s area of focus, and the realisation of approved concepts within the NPI Operating Model milestones.

Responsibilities

• You will lead a close knit, squad of multi-disciplinary engineers tasked with ideating new product concepts, you will be responsible for inspiring the team to innovate in a New Category of products.
• Line manage a team of 4-5 engineers, setting their performance goals and supporting them with feedback needed to form a high performing team.
• Lead communication with all stakeholders acting as a first technical point of contact for the project.
• Co-ordinate the agendas & content for all Design reviews with our Chief Innovation Officer and founder.
• Communicate between teams within the research and development organisations to ensure effective and timely input; resolve conflicts and lead technical solutions.
• Alongside the project manager, organise regular progress meetings with all stakeholders (Engineering, business unit leadership). Including chairing PLT sessions, technical reviews and KO and POC milestones.
• Partner with the Project Manager to define level 0-2 plans and ensuring their delivery through prioritisation and escalation of unresolved conflicts.
• Set project technical direction and define the project team setup in conjunction with the project manager and engineering/technical leads detailing the makeup of the team to achieve the project.
• Break down major requirements in to smaller cross-functional features and prioritise with stakeholders.

About you

• Effective communications skills are key. You will need to be able to summarise and navigate a route through often complex technical scenarios for our senior leadership team.
• Prioiritsation skills are a must. You will have a small team at your disposal, and guiding them to work on the few areas that will allow us to assess the viability of a new idea quickly is a key skill required to be successful.
• You are a creative problem solver who can spot opportunities for new ideas and encourage a culture in your team for others to do the same.
• You will be a team player, able to work together with colleagues in other areas of our global RDD network to achieve the best outcome for Dyson.
• Degree in a relevant Engineering discipline or equivalent.
• Proven experience and successful track record of delivering robust design solutions on time, to specification and within cost and budget constraints.
• Significant experience of interacting and building relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Ability and credibility to motivate teams, strong influencing skills and leading with and without formal power and line authority.
• Capable of multitasking, prioritising your work and the work of others.
• Knowledge and proven experience in change management processes implementation.
• Excel at working with multiple stakeholders in a global organisation whilst using your judgement to share only what’s necessary to keep projects moving forwards.
• Technical and personal credibility to work effectively in cross-functional design teams throughout the project development cycle.
• Strong conflict resolution skills (assertiveness, active listening, empathy...)
• Excellent presentation, networking and communication skills. Comfortable and used to present to senior leaders within the business.
• An agile learner, understanding problems quickly whilst being able to identify experts to help with the details.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.