Get to know Work With Island 🏝️

Work With Island designs and manufactures soundproof cabins for new workspaces. Having worked in shared spaces, we understand their limitations: few places to isolate oneself and meeting rooms often monopolized. It is to provide this moment of serenity and productivity that Work With Island was born. We produce in France using recycled and recyclable materials, cabins for 1 to 4 people that can be set up in less than 30 minutes.

We are actively seeking a Product Engineer Senior to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, building products, and managing a junior collaborator.

As a leader in the early stages of product design, you will pay close attention to providing the best user experience for our products. Your responsibilities will encompass designing the product structure, determining product features, devising mechanical solutions, and creating prototypes.

🎯 Main responsabilities: 

Within the product team, starting from the concept phase, the Product Engineer Senior is tasked with exploring, designing, and developing entire or partial components of our acoustics booth products. You will support the project through to the industrialization phase, overseeing functionality, price, and quality aspects of the solutions and products developed.

Product Engineer duties include:

• Driving product development strategies in alignment with the product vision and roadmap to innovate and develop solutions that enhance the user experience.
• Developing solutions within a specified price target, with a particular focus on delivering the best possible user experience.
• Designing concepts in 3D (CAD) and prototyping them.
• Defining product costs and schedules and monitoring them.
• Collaborating with a product or program manager to ensure project alignment with the product roadmap and objectives.
• Establishing product specifications and requirements, defining the development process.
• Writing a Quality plan to ensure compliance with usage and conformity to different countries’ regulations.
• Ensuring a seamless transition to the operations team during the industrialization phase, supporting supplier sourcing and qualification.
• Actively participating in the continuous improvement of the product scope.
• Serving as a team leader and player, developing products through your skills and know-how, while integrating experts into the development process (management, designers, product team, operations team, program management, suppliers).
• Directly managing a Junior Product Engineer, guiding them to high standards of performance.

Get to know Matthieu, line manager:

Matthieu joined WWI in August 2023 as Head of Product.

He loves to surf. 🏄

🏝️ Benefits:

💸 Compensation: 50-60K€ + BSPCE

♥️ Central Paris location for offices and showroom

⛰ Remote work: 2 days/week

✨ Health coverage through Alan

🎟 Swile card (€9)

🚲 Mobility package 

💡Do you recognize yourself in this?

With a background in engineering, you are deeply passionate about products and boast a minimum of 5 years of experience, showcasing a track record of leading the development of innovative hardware products, ideally within the furniture industry.

Your characteristics include:

• Curiosity and Passion: You possess a genuine interest and passion for hardware products and design, and you are motivated to drive innovation within a startup environment.
• High Standards: You set and uphold high standards, paying meticulous attention to details.
• Ambition: Being ambitious, you thrive on exploring ideas and testing new concepts.
• Environmental Consciousness: In light of the climate challenges our planet faces, you are aware and committed to rallying people and mobilizing energies to create products and practices that are environmentally respectful.
• Organization and Attention: You are organized and attentive, capable of simultaneously overseeing multiple projects and anticipating deadlines.
• Team Collaboration: You thrive in a team-oriented environment and excel in progressing within the fast-paced dynamics of a startup.
• Courage of Convictions: You have the courage to stand by your convictions.
• Language Proficiency: Fluent in both French and English, you can effectively communicate in both written and spoken forms.

👀 Recruitment step:

1. A 30’ call with Jessica, Talent Acquisition Manager.
2. A 1h30 interview with Matthieu, Head of Product.
3. A 1h interview with Yohann, co-founder.
4. Team fit with 2 team members.

Work with Island has strong values and is committed to diversity, equal opportunities and inclusion. All applications will be considered regardless of origin, background, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability…