CMF Designer
Wat houd het in?05-11-2025
For a multinational in Amsterdam, we are looking for an ambitious CMF / Product Designer. In this role you have the possibility to stimulate the creative process with new ideas, input and thinking through the whole product experience (e.g., visualizations and simulations). Available 4/5 days per week (flexible in work days), starting in January 2026.
Onze belofte aan jou
- Laptop
- Education & Training
- Pension benefits
- Responsibility
- Creative freedom
- On-the-job feedback
- Flexibility
Tasks & Responsibilities CMF Designer
- Ensuring CMF consistency across categories via alignment with the CMF design team
- Leading multiple CMF projects, owning CMF activities end-to-end, from brief to launch
- Shaping category CMF strategy & range architecture, including sustainability as a driver
- Prototyping, reviewing prototypes/samples, and documenting feedback to safeguard CMF intent
- Conducting consumer, competitor and trend research to identify needs and create differentiation
- Sharing knowledge, inspiring the design community and driving meaningful, user-centric innovation
- Generating CMF concepts, delivering definitions/documentation, and ensuring manufacturing feasibility
Our Offer
• Challenging international environment• Temporary role for 6 months, starting ASAP
• Fulltime, 40 hours per week
• Temporary contract/secondment, approx. € 4,500 gross/month (freelance not an option)
• Extension is possible
The Organisation
This international design-driven organisation located in Amsterdam is known for creating consumer products with a strong focus on aesthetics, user experience and material innovation. Their teams work closely together across design, engineering and marketing to bring new concepts to life, always combining creativity with feasibility.
The culture is open, collaborative and curious: new ideas are welcomed, prototyping is part of the daily workflow and there is plenty of room for experimenting with new colours, materials, finishes and design directions. You’ll be joining a company that values craftsmanship, future-proof thinking and the continuous improvement of the product experience.
Your Team
You are a part of a team of Product, Digital UX, Communication Designers and Program Managers, with a main focus on CMF projects. Your team is part of the larger Amsterdam team of about 100 people and a global design community of approximately 450 colleagues supporting all of our businesses.
Together, you work closely with business management, marketing, and engineering to shape the portfolio’s future identity through projects, guidelines, and final design specifications. The role offers challenging projects that put your skills to the test, plenty of learning through feedback and knowledge sharing, and the creative freedom to make a real impact with your expertise.
Profile CMF Designer
In order to fulfill this role you are/have:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Design (or related)
- Available 4 or 5 days per week (flexible in work days), starting in January 2026;
- Willingness to travel to prototype / model makers, suppliers and relevant exhibitions
- Strong craft skills in CMF visualisation, especially mood boards and CMF renderings with KeyShot
- Excellent English communication and storytelling, able to influence stakeholders through persuasive presentations
- 5 years’ CMF experience in home appliances / consumer electronics, with a sharp eye for colour, materials and finish quality
- Deep knowledge of materials / finishes and related related manufacturing processes to ensure feasibility and cost-efficiency
