Industrial Design Brand Manager

About Juniper







The new network is changing the way we think, connect, and do business around the world. Juniper is best positioned to help business’ make the most out of these new, complex changes.







We offer a high-performance network infrastructure that helps service providers, enterprises, and public sector organizations create value and accelerate business success within the new, changing global marketplace. Our products and technology run the world’s largest and most demanding global networks.







Juniper Networks [NYSE: JNPR] is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with 7,000 dedicated employees and offices in nearly 50 countries. Our customers include the top 100 global service providers, 30,000 enterprises, including 99 of the Global Fortune 100, as well as hundreds of federal, state and local government agencies and higher education organizations.





Industrial Design Brand Manager



Send Resumes to dpaul@juniper.net



Job Description:

Reporting to the Director of Brand Experience and working with product development throughout Juniper’s business groups and with Juniper’s external industrial design vendor, this job will establish a new design program within Juniper and will oversee the implementation of Juniper’s industrial and branding design across all business units in the company. Position will play a key role in Juniper’s business process re-engineering, working with business groups and manufacturing on design solutions to improve quality and supply chain metrics. Combined with leadership and motivation this position provides candidates with a unique opportunity to grow and transform this new in-house design position into a strategic corporate design program.

While a major focus of this position is to implement hardware design, the position will be responsible for proper branding from name development/selection to ensuring that packaging meets brand specifications. We are looking for someone who has a deep understanding of design principles and can use their experience to balance form, function, and business goals to elevate the Juniper Brand and enhance the customer experience. Primary responsibilities include:

• Implement Juniper’s industrial design specifications across all business units (working with outside design firm(s) and Juniper’s team of mechanical engineers)

• Implementation of proper branding in GUI (working with outside design firm and user experience professionals)

• Ownership and implementation of Juniper’s product naming taxonomy

• Ownership and implementation of Juniper’s branding on product packaging

• Day-to-day management of simultaneous project activities; delivering approved designs to agreed specifications within time constraints. Foster the development of innovative and strategic design solutions based on customer needs.

• Coordinate with Marketing and Brand leadership to deploy and evolve the Juniper design language and trade dress.



Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have a proven record that fulfills the majority of these requirements:

• BS, BFA or masters in Industrial or Product Design

• 7+ years of product design experience in the IT industry, Communications experience highly preferred.

• Proven ability to lead and manage people with diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities.

• Record of achieving objectives; successful project completion and a portfolio of prior work.

• Excellent written and communications skills able to operate at all levels of the company



Primary Location

United States-California-Sunnyvale, CA