Purpose and Overall Relevance:
Collaborate with sourcing, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to develop industry-leading creative, functional, and cost-effective solutions for assigned concepts or categories. Responsible for all aspects of the colour and material mastering process—driving quality, innovation, and production feasibility for world-class products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, revise and oversea Technical Packages for assigned projects, ensuring all requirements for aesthetics, proportion, manufacturing, and costing are met.
- Interpret design intent; provide alternative and supplementary solutions as a technical resource to stakeholders and factories.
- Guide all aspects of colour, material, and finish mastering, including analysis and approval of colour, material, finish, and grain to validate appearance and quality.
- Track and facilitate prototyping of multiple products. Identify and address manufacturing/costing issues and deliver against tight timelines.
- Manage multiple parallel-path projects and high-volume workloads in a fast-paced environment.
- Communicate status of material masters and prototypes to Design Quality, CMF Design, Procurement and Engineering teams and escalate risks where needed.
- Participate in global annual and long-term creative direction strategies to influence innovation.
- Present and communicate creative solutions clearly and effectively to stakeholders.
- Seek new design resources to elevate and inspire the design team.
- Review and approve development stages of sample execution.
- Develop supply base and track timelines to ensure materials are production ready.
- Support and implement tactical protocols, procedures, tools, and software to streamline the material mastering system.
- Distil complex Excel / Data into clear, visually compelling, single-slide summaries that quickly communicate the current project status to stakeholders.
What you’ll bring:
- Bachelor's degree in design, Textiles, CMF, Industrial Design, Product Development or relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
- UK + Chinese Language.
- Demonstrate high colour acuity and ability to articulate precise colour and appearance differences; pass the Munsell Hue Test with a superior score.
- Experience with colour quality evaluation using colour measurement tools, digital data, and visual analysis.
- Experience tracking supplier performance metrics and supporting corrective action plans to meet timing and quality goals.
- Proven ability to implement procedures and systems for tactical protocol.
- Pragmatic approach to facilitating creative projects, focusing on process and coordination rather than direct design execution.
- Excellent at building and maintaining external and internal relationships including travelling to suppliers.
- Bring an excellent knowledge of technical material knowledge to educate and influence the design team.
- Strong communication and organised skills; obsessive attention to detail.
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and able to manage multiple projects with short timelines.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Exceptional visual communication skills - can extract meaning from raw data and translate it into understandable, actionable graphics that fit onto a single slide.
What to expect:
You’ll build and oversee material masters, collaborate closely with suppliers, drive quality in every stage, and thrive in a dynamic, creative, and fast-paced environment. Your acute eye for colour and detail, paired with operational excellence and top-tier visual communication, will help you clarify, influence, and propel the delivery of world-class solutions.
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
