Industrial Designer

Job description

About the role

Own the industrial design of a new off-road e-bike kit outright, from direction through to production-intent CAD. A contract Industrial Designer role in central London, £300 to £350 per day, outside IR35, hybrid at three to four days on site. Initial two weeks, with scope to extend.

Why This Might Beat The Job You Have Now

• You own this design outright, from picking the direction to getting it to tooling, not inheriting a half-finished brief.
• You sit with the engineers who build it, so your calls get tested in real parts within days, not thrown over a wall.
• The off-road version is a real rethink, not a facelift, so the design decisions are genuinely yours to make.
• A small, product-led team that decides fast, with no committee and no queue behind three other projects.
• Well funded with a full pipeline, so a short contract has room to run for the right person.

Role At A Glance

• Central London, hybrid, three to four days per week on site.
• Contract, initial two-week review, likely one to two months.
• Start as soon as sign-off allows, ideally week commencing the 14th.
• Reporting to the engineering lead, alongside the in-house mechanical engineering team.

What You Will Own

As the Industrial Designer, you take the off-road kit from concept direction to production-intent output.

• The industrial design of both the main unit and the battery.
• The user journey and product flow for a kit used in a very different context to the current range.
• Design for manufacture across injection moulded plastics and aluminium extrusions.
• CAD, 3D prints and physical mock-ups to prove each design decision.

What You Will Need

• A proven background in industrial design on consumer hardware or physical products, at a level where you own a product without hand-holding.
• Strong CAD skills, comfortable taking a product to production-intent output. Onshape preferred, licences supplied.
• Design for manufacture knowledge across injection moulded plastics and aluminium extrusions.

Handy but not essential, experience in e-bikes or micromobility, hands-on prototyping, and working with suppliers.

Salary And Benefits

• £300 to £350 per day, outside IR35.
• Onshape licences supplied.
• Hybrid, three to four days on site, in a team that makes decisions fast.

About The Company

A product-led hardware business in central London, building kits that turn a standard bike into an electric one. It recently changed hands with fresh investment and now sits inside a larger international group, so the budget and the project pipeline are both healthy. The team is small and hands-on, and this Industrial Designer role exists because the off-road project has outgrown its design capacity.

Interested?

If that is your kind of work, I would rather see the work than a CV. Send your portfolio, or a couple of lines on a product you took to tooling, and I will send the full brief back. This Industrial Designer contract is moving fast, so get in touch.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

25-09-2026

Profession type

Design / Fashion

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English