Industrial Designer - Entry Level
Austin, TXFull-time$55–65K/yrPosted 4 days agoStill listed 3 days ago
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Taphandles is hiring an early-career industrial designer for its Austin studio to develop custom products for breweries and beverage brands. The designer will take concepts from sketches through modeling, prototyping, and production, with mentorship from senior designers and the Design Director. The role emphasizes original ideas, manufacturable products, and visual storytelling; recent and upcoming graduates are welcome, and internships count toward experience.
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Junior Industrial Designer – Entry Level Beer & Beverage Industry | Austin, TX Location: Austin, Texas (On-Site, Full-Time) Reports to: Design Director Taphandles designs and manufactures custom tap handles, dispense towers, and branded point-of-sale for breweries and beverage brands worldwide. Our products show up where brands compete hardest: at the bar. We're hiring a Junior Industrial Designer for our Austin studio. This is an early-career role with a high creative bar. You'll learn from experienced designers under our Design Director, take your ideas from sketch to manufactured product, and see your work installed in bars and restaurants within months. We move quickly, value originality, and design products built to get made. See our work at www.taphandles.com. What You'll Do
- Translate customer briefs into original, thoughtful product concepts
- Generate hand sketches and rapid ideation drawings
- Explore multiple directions before refining toward strong solutions
- Create presentation-ready renderings and visual storytelling assets
- Build and refine 3D models, with training and mentorship from senior designers
- Apply design-for-manufacturing principles from early concept stages
- Prepare production-ready artwork in Adobe Illustrator for our factory and global production partners
- Ask smart questions to close gaps in a brief
- Support prototyping, sampling, and production documentation
- Own smaller projects end to end as your skills grow
Who You Are
- 0–2 years of professional experience; recent and upcoming graduates welcome, and internships count
- Portfolio showing strong sketching ability and visual thinking
- Strong conceptual skills; you generate ideas and carry them through
- Comfortable working through ambiguity to find a path forward
- Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
- Foundational 3D modeling (Rhino preferred) and rendering (KeyShot) experience
- Deep interest in physical products and how things are made
- Open to feedback and able to iterate quickly
- Clear communicator with strong critical thinking skills
- Permanent U.S. work authorization
We value raw ability, design taste, and problem-solving instincts most. If you can sketch beautifully and think dimensionally, we'll teach you the rest. Bonus Experience
- ZBrush or digital sculpting tools
- Exposure to branding, packaging, or beverage-related products
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: $55,000 – $65,000 annually (based on experience and portfolio strength)
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Paid time off
- 401(k) with 4% company match
Equal Opportunity Taphandles is an equal opportunity employer. To Apply For best consideration, email your resume and portfolio (PDF under 10MB) along with a brief introduction to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 1,802 open Product Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$55–65K/yr
- Texas median$126–193K/yr28 salary ranges
- US median$150–216K/yr1,377 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $60K, is 63% below the Texas median midpoint ($162K) — in the lowest quarter of Product Designer salary ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 58 open Product Designer jobs in Texas and 1,802 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Product Designer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,413 postings).
- Education
- 452 of the 1,802 open Product Designer jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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