Industrial Designer, Packaging – Lead

Whoop
Boston, US

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior industrial designers who balance creative vision with engineering rigor in physical product packaging.

Best fit for

  • Senior designers with a track record in scalable packaging systems
    — “creating cohesive, scalable packaging families
  • Candidates who excel in cross-functional collaboration on physical touchpoints
    — “cross-functional collaboration
  • Designers obsessed with brand clarity through physical details
    — “make WHOOP unmistakable through clarity, restraint, and excellence

Things to consider

  • Role requires balancing creative vision with engineering precision
    — “strong balance of creative vision, engineering rigor

How to stand out

  • Showcase packaging projects where unboxing reinforced brand identity
    — “ensuring every detail reinforces the brand and product experience
  • Highlight experience designing for both hardware and accessories
    — “packaging systems across our hardware and accessory portfolio
  • Demonstrate how you've simplified complex packaging systems
    — “simplicity, performance, and precision
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Lead

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What success looks like

  • developed cohesive packaging systems
  • enhanced brand experience through packaging
Typical background
industrial designpackaging design

Skills & requirements

Required

Industrial DesignPackaging DesignBrandingCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

Hardware DesignProduct Lifecycle Management

About the role

Original posting from Whoop via Lever

At WHOOP, we’re on a mission to unlock human performance and maximize healthspan. Our products empower members through deeper physiological understanding, enabling smarter decisions in training, recovery, sleep, and daily life.

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. Working in close partnership across the company, 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

As an Industrial Designer, Packaging - Lead, you will help shape the design and development of packaging systems across our hardware and accessory portfolio. This role is responsible for creating cohesive, scalable packaging families that reflect WHOOP’s design principles: simplicity, performance, and precision.

You will define how our products show up in the world, from first touch to unboxing, ensuring every detail reinforces the brand and product experience. This role requires a strong balance of creative vision, engineering rigor, and cross-functional collaboration.

Source: Whoop careers (Lever)

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