Senior Manager, Industrial Design

Coca-Cola · Atlanta · $139,600–$157,900 (stated in the posting)

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Job Description Summary:

Imagine what does not yet exist, then help bring it to life. 

In this role, you will shape the future of beverage equipment used around the world, creating intuitive, human-centered physical experiences and helping bridge physical and digital products. 

You will thrive in this role if you bring a combination of creative vision, proven design expertise, thoughtful leadership, and a collaborative, future-focused mindset: 

• Creative and Consumer-Centered: You are a forward-thinking Industrial Designer who uses consumer insights to guide product form, color, materials, finishes, graphics, ergonomics, and intuitive touchpoints. 
• A Seasoned Pro: You bring 7+ years in industrial design focused on consumer products, a deep understanding of manufacturing processes, and expertise in SolidWorks/CAD, KeyShot/Blender, and Adobe CC, with Figma/UI design experience preferred. 
• Courageous but Thoughtful: You think beyond familiar answers, challenge peers constructively, make moves with intention, and understand the business impact of design decisions for all stakeholders. 
• Future-Focused and Collaborative: You explore emerging technologies with curiosity, improve how work gets done, elevate the team’s potential, and willingly contribute beyond your core responsibilities to help the team win. 

You are energized by new product launches and the impact our work can have in the world. At Coca-Cola’s Global Equipment Platforms team, you will join a tight-knit, multidisciplinary design team partnering with engineers, manufacturers, and innovators across a global portfolio of 17M+ coolers, vending machines, fountain dispensers, Freestyle units, and more. 

What You’ll Do for Us  

Imagine, Create, and Lead Industrial Design

• Generate original, future-focused concepts that challenge conventional thinking while responding to real consumer, customer, brand, and business needs.
• Lead industrial design direction for projects from discovery through production, defining the vision, principles, and standards that guide detailed design development to enable consistent execution across global partners.
• Provide art direction and clear design feedback to agencies, manufacturers, and other development partners, ensuring solutions are aligned with the intended vision, intuitive, on-brand, manufacturable and scalable.
• Develop concepts, sketches, CAD, renderings, graphics, mock-ups, market-ready designs and prototypes for dispensers, coolers, vending machines, and related components.
• Create compelling product stories, presentations, and design narratives that build confidence in a creative direction and help teams make decisions.

Design Around People

• Put consumers, customers, crew members, and service technicians at the center of design decisions.
• Partner with UX researchers and project teams to observe behavior, identify unmet needs, translate insights into design opportunities, and validate concepts with users.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, accessibility awareness, and intuitive interaction principles across physical and connected experiences.
• Partner closely with engineering throughout development to balance desirability, usability, brand expression, technical feasibility, manufacturability, durability, cost, and operational realities.

Collaborate and Deliver

• Work as a generous, low-ego teammate and trusted partner across industrial design, UX, UI, engineering, software, insights, marketing, procurement, agencies, and equipment manufacturers.
• Invite critique, communicate design intent clearly, and use feedback to make the work stronger.
• Independently manage priorities and deliverables while actively contributing to the success of the broader team.

Support Visual and Graphic Design

• Create or refine graphics for equipment, concept presentations, design documentation, mock-ups, and prototypes; and prepare clear graphic files, guidance, or production specifications for agencies, manufacturers, and other partners.
• Understand, promote, and apply Coca-Cola brand standards and visual identity principles across equipment graphics.
• Preferred: Support UI initiatives and developments across all global equipment platforms (dispense, Freestyle, vending, etc)

Qualifications & Requirements  

Required:

• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional industrial design craft, creative range, concept development, problem-solving, design process, and products brought toward market. Please include a portfolio link with your application.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design or related field
• 7+ years of experience in industrial design with consumer products, commercial equipment, durable goods, or a comparable product category
• Advanced capability in 2D and 3D design tools, including CAD (e.g., SolidWorks, Rhino), rendering tools (e.g., KeyShot), and graphic design tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite)
• Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, such as injection molding, metal finishing, die-casting, and extrusion, with an emphasis on managing cost and quality
• Experience collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams to bring designs to market
• Practical experience applying user-centered design, ergonomics, research findings, or usability feedback to physical product decisions
• Demonstrated knowledge of industrial design project management, ensuring project deliverables meet timelines and quality expectations

Preferred:

• Experience in UI or interaction design, including wireframes, interactive prototypes, or design systems; proficiency in Figma is a plus
• Experience with consumer research methodologies, field observation, usability testing
• Experience designing for foodservice, retail, hospitality or amusement environments
• Knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design principles across physical and digital touchpoints
• Experience with CMF strategy, production graphics, brand systems, or visual identity application
• Comfort experimenting with emerging design technologies, including generative AI, immersive tools, digital fabrication, or rapid visualization workflows
• Video editing or motion design experience for concept storytelling, presentations, prototypes, or design communication

Leadership Competencies

• Dreamer and Doer: You imagine possibilities others may miss, then build, test, and refine them until they become tangible.
• Design Strategist: Visionary leader who understands how to blend art direction with functional product solutions, balancing design vision with cost and feasibility.
• Collaborative Innovator: You build strong partnerships, share ideas freely, invite other perspectives, help where needed, and believe the best work is built together.
• Clear Storyteller: You make ideas understandable through sketches, prototypes, visuals, narratives, and confident presentations. You can inspire cross-functionally.
• Innovative Thinker: You are energized by new tools and technologies and thoughtful about where they can create real value.

What We Can Do For You  

• Creative impact at scale: See ideas move beyond the screen and into tangible experiences that can reach consumers around the world
• Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico
• Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.

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Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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