Industrial Designer

We're looking for an experienced Industrial Designer who can take physical products from concept all the way to manufacturing. Someone who has shipped real hardware, can codify a design language that others can build on, and builds products that feel human and considered, not just heavy or industrial. You know that production reality belongs in the first sketch, not the last.

Must haves

• 6–8+ years in Industrial Design

• Experience from hardware categories with physical/digital integration

• Fluency designing for manufacturing in a variety of materials (including metal and plastic)

• Has seen at least one physical product move through concept → prototyping → manufacturing handover → production at meaningful volume

Nice to haves

• Experience being among the first design hires on a hardware product team, shaping the foundation

• Has navigated non-linear product development where priorities shift and manufacturing constraints emerge late

Your mission

As Starflow's first Industrial Designer, you'll translate our ambition to make clean energy the obvious choice into a coherent physical expression across our hardware portfolio. You'll shape how Starflow is encountered in the physical world: by the homeowners who live with these products every day, and by the installers and facility managers who specify, install, and service them. The decisions you make will define how Starflow's hardware is experienced for years.

This is a first-discipline hire. You won't be filling an existing seat. You'll define what Industrial Design means at Starflow, set the standard for the discipline, and establish a design-led, engineering-supported way of working, all while delivering against real product timelines. This isn't decoration on top of engineering. It's a deliberate expression of the brand in every product we ship.

A design language others can build on
When you've succeeded, Starflow has a hardware design language that lives as a real, shared asset rather than as taste in one person's head. New products start from that language instead of a blank page, and the people who shape the brand can each articulate what it stands for.

Hardware that's unmistakably Starflow
Products reach manufacturing without losing design quality or momentum, and the craft holds all the way into production. Someone encountering the portfolio sees a single family, with a level of detailing precise enough that the hardware is recognizable as ours and no one else's.

Design and engineering as one discipline
Design and engineering stop working in sequence and start working as one. Form and engineering decisions inform each other from the earliest exploration, the cycle from vision to prototype tightens, and the late-stage redesigns that force expensive rework become rare.

What you'll build

End to end physical product design
You'll take products from first concept to manufacturing-ready output: form factor, materials, surface treatments, geometry, and installation scenarios. You'll work shoulder to shoulder with our Mechanical Engineers from the start, resolving the hard production questions yourself rather than passing them along, and you'll be the design-side point of contact for manufacturing partners who need coherent, ready-to-build specifications.

The design language, documented
You'll write the design language down, covering form vocabulary, material palette, surface treatments, and installation language, so others can apply it without it fragmenting. You'll also work with our UX designers on the points where hardware meets digital: maintenance, service, and onboarding.

The prototyping practice and the way the discipline works
With no mature workshop to lean on, you'll find workable approaches to physical prototyping through practical problem-solving rather than waiting for a lab to exist. The way Industrial Design operates here, including collaboration patterns, decision rights, and handover formats, gets built as a side effect of doing the work, not as a separate initiative.

How you'll work

You'll work directly with engineering from the start. Form, materials, and installation decisions shape what gets built, so they belong at the beginning of the process, not the end. You'll make them together with Roman, our Mechanical Engineer, rather than hand them over once they're "done". Expect to resolve the hard production questions alongside him. You'll often make consequential decisions before you have full context, and over time you'll build real trust in both directions: engineering knows your decisions will hold through to manufacturing, and you trust that their constraints are real.

You'll join a small design team: Paul, our Design Lead, and two UX/UI designers, Rachel and Karoline. Paul will be your leader and your closest sparring partner. He's thought hard about why this discipline matters at Starflow and what it needs to become, and you'll shape that together: you're not inheriting a playbook, you're writing one.

The pace is real, and so is the ambiguity. There's no mature workshop, no material library, no established process waiting for you, so you'll build structure as you go, while products are shipping. Some weeks you'll move between language-level strategy and the radius of a corner in the same afternoon. If you need everything in place before you can move, or you defer the hard parts to "a later phase", this won't be the right fit. But if building a discipline from the ground up is exactly the work you're looking for, there are few places you could do it as fully as here.

Who we're looking for

We're looking for a mature systems thinker, the kind of designer whose work holds up over years. You find the space where material, form, and manufacturing meet more interesting than any one of them alone. And you're drawn to this because shaping the physical language of a company from the ground up is rare, and you know it.

You take products all the way to production

Your portfolio shows physical products you've personally taken from concept to manufacturing-ready output. You move fluently between rough exploration and production resolution, and you know which the moment calls for. You talk about materials like someone who has chosen them, sourced them, and seen them through manufacturing.

You design for how things are actually made

You understand how physical products are made, including the methods, tooling, tolerances, and supplier realities, with fluency across both metal and plastic. Cost and feasibility are part of your first sketch, not a constraint applied later. You know where your decisions end and where engineering owns the industrialisation, and you work with that line rather than against it.

You build design languages, not just products

You've developed a design language for a portfolio of related products and documented it so others could apply it without it fragmenting. You can explain the why behind your choices, connecting them to brand, audience, and system, not just the what. Documentation is part of the work for you, not an afterthought.

You think in systems and second-order consequences

You see how a decision on one product propagates across the family, and you think about what a choice means in five years, not just this sprint. You explore broadly before committing, because you know the first idea is rarely the right one. You sharpen ideas by defining what something is not.

Starflow is building a seamless platform that brings together solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers, and the grid. At the core is a smart hybrid inverter — designed to become the central control unit of the modern home, capable of monitoring, managing, and optimizing energy use automatically.

With advanced hardware and open software architecture, the system will adapt to each home in real time. It’s being developed to help lower energy bills, enable storage and bring everything together in one intuitive interface. Easy to install, built to last, and ready for the energy needs of tomorrow.

Clean energy, made effortless. Quiet in presence. Powerful in action. Fully in sync with how we want to live. We’re building what energy should feel like. And this is just the beginning.