Dyson offers a unique opportunity for talented individuals to design and develop market-leading products for the global market. Working within our world-class Research, Design and Development (RDD) team, you’ll collaborate with technical specialists and creative minds to create products that are truly different and better than our competitors.
About the roleReporting to the Head of New Category, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering Dyson’s product roadmap for this emerging category. This position focuses on design leadership for internally and externally developed projects, ensuring alignment with Dyson’s standards for quality, performance, and innovation.
Lead design activities for new category projects, ensuring delivery on time, to specification, and within budget.
Maintain visibility of the long-term product portfolio plan and support evolving business priorities.
Collaborate with Procurement and Supply Chain to identify and manage external partners for products, sub-assemblies, and technologies.
Define and implement processes for partner engagement (RFI/RFP) and resource planning.
Track and report all external partner activities within the new category.
Drive design decisions that balance Dyson’s brand identity with outsourced and internal delivery models.
Act as a key design authority, ensuring technical integrity and compliance with Dyson’s standards throughout the development lifecycle.
Influence and align cross-functional teams to achieve design and business objectives.
Degree in Engineering or Science (or equivalent experience).
8+ years’ experience in product design and development, with exposure to end-to-end delivery.
Strong understanding of tooling, manufacturing techniques, and product development frameworks.
Experience in mechanical and electrical engineering; familiarity with operations and supply chain.
Proven ability to manage complex projects and deliver against time, cost, and quality targets.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
Commercial awareness and data-driven decision-making.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-cultural environment.
Dyson China offers competitive salaries, bonuses, and comprehensive medical coverage. Beyond financial rewards, you’ll enjoy professional growth opportunities, leadership development, and a vibrant culture that reflects our engineering spirit.
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
