ID 3 - CMF Designer
As a Color, Material, and Finish (‘CMF”) Designer at Peloton, you will be responsible for supporting the CMF strategies and projects for all hard products in our core line.
Working hand in hand on the ID team in collaboration with Engineering and Sourcing to develop a CMF strategy for our long term road map.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Research consumer lifestyle and product design trends, translating them into cohesive Peloton CMF strategies that strengthen our product branding strategy
- ability to synthesize research findings and to uncover and articulate insights that will inform and inspire design
- Develop a master sample chip library that is unique to Peloton
- Knowledge in materials and manufacturing processes
- Work with material vendors to develop both advanced material samples and standards for production
- Work collaboratively with engineers, suppliers and manufacturers to develop concepts and prototypes into material technologies suitable for mass manufacturing
- Work with material vendors to develop both advanced material samples and standards for production
- exceptional visual, communication and storytelling skills. fluency and confidence in inspiring teammates
- Analyze and approve colors, materials, and finishes at different stages of the development process.
- Understand material trends and forecast innovative material used in a variety of Hard and Soft Goods applications across multiple industries including fitness, cycling, and consumer electronics.
- Understanding of consumer electronics, soft goods and fitness industry
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design
- 5+ years of experience in a CMF design role
- Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and KeyShot
- Able to travel to shows and suppliers both domestically and internationally.
- Excellent visual and verbal communication skills
- Experience collaborating with foreign manufacturing and supply partners to bring products to market
Bonus Qualifications
- Fitness industry experience
- Advanced surfacing with Alias, or Rhino
- Adobe Premiere & Flash
- Personal interest in wellness or fitness
**please provide a link to your portfolio on your resume or we will not be able to review you as a candidate**
Please note: This is a full-time position that will be remote initially (due to COVID-19) and based in our New York City HQ once safe to re-open the office.
ABOUT PELOTON
Peloton is the largest interactive fitness platform in the world with a loyal community of more than 2.6 million Members. The company pioneered connected, technology-enabled fitness, and the streaming of immersive, instructor-led boutique classes for its Members anytime, anywhere. Peloton makes fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections that encourage its Members to be the best versions of themselves. An innovator at the nexus of fitness, technology, and media, Peloton has reinvented the fitness industry by developing a first-of-its-kind subscription platform that seamlessly combines the best equipment, proprietary networked software, and world-class streaming digital fitness and wellness content, creating a product that its Members love. The brand's immersive content is accessible through the Peloton Bike, Peloton Tread, and Peloton App, which allows access to a full slate of fitness classes across disciplines, on any iOS or Android device, Fire TV, Roku, Chromecast and Android TV. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton has a growing number of retail showrooms across the US, UK, Canada and Germany. For more information, visit www.onepeloton.com.
“Together We Go Far” means that we are greater than the sum of our parts, stronger collectively when each one of us is at our best. In order to be the best version of Peloton, we are deeply committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive culture where all of our team members can be the best version of themselves. This work has no endpoint; it is the constant work of running an organization that strives to reach its full potential. As a first step in our commitment, we announced the Peloton Pledge to invest $100 million over the next four years to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world, and to promote health and wellbeing for all, from the inside out.