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.

We are now looking for a new colleague to join us in Business Area Children’s and Lighting, working within HFB 10 Lighting & Home electronics.. In BA Children’s & Lighting 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. We are passionate about how light and atmosphere can make us feel 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. As a Product Design Developer, you play a key role in our quest to improve everyday activities connected to furnishing you home with light.

Do you want to join our fantastic team?

We are looking for you who love delivering fast HFA products, coordinated across HFBs, reacting to current and future trends (colour, material etc), who have deep insights into the needs and dreams of our customers in their life at home and know how to lead design process through an entrepreneurial approach. As a Product Design Developer at IKEA of Sweden you bring product ideas to life through attention to all dimensions of the IKEA Democratic Design process – form, function, sustainability, low price and quality.

As a Product Design Developer you will be part of engaging the full capabilities of the value chain to deliver democratic design products with unique IKEA identity and commerciality to create a better everyday life for the many people. You will work together with a multifunctional team of experts in innovation and design, engineering, sourcing, supply marketing and communication and sales. Together, you co-create the final home furnishing offer through a holistic and customer centric approach according to the IKEA Democratic Design principles and the IKEA identity.

As a Product Design Developer for Children’s and Lighting, you are responsible for:

• 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
• 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 into actions on product level
• Co-creating with development partners throughout total value chain
• To when applicable use existing platforms, shared solutions, standard colours and materials to design for lowest price
• To feed in to development of platforms, shared solutions, standard colours and materials
• Identify and enable stories of the product design development to be used in communication
• To contribute in creating a high performing project team
• To contribute to creating the Range and Product plan

In order 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.

A Product Design Developer is someone who has a genuine interest in developing products; someone who has the ability to see things from a customer’s perspective and conceptualize things that don’t exist. In order 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 and several years of experience in working with product development.

A Product Design Developer is someone who is innovative, curious and likes to challenge the existing. Someone with the ability to work with conceptual ideas, who is able to turn these into final solutions and to lead the content of the project from start to end.

You are curious with an eye for design and get motivated by finding new ways of working. You are energetic, driven and determined, enjoy working closely with people, at a fast pace and have great communication skills.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Range & Product Design Manager, BA Chili Nina Hughes at +46 72-352 77 15. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Jakob Bergström at +46 70-147 48 90. Last day to send in your application is November 30. 

Warm welcome with your application!