About Signify
Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.
At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.
Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. You light the way.
More about the role
This is an exciting job opportunity for you to light the way as a CMF Lead in Eindhoven with Signify.
We are looking for a CMF Lead to elevate our global design excellence by driving the vision, development, and implementation of advanced CMF strategies that align with our sustainability goals, technology roadmaps, and brand values.
You will be part of the Signify Design team — the Center of Excellence for global Design within Signify. With the main hubs in Eindhoven, Shanghai, and Boston, we work at the forefront of lighting innovation, sustainability, and digital transformation.
You’ll work closely with Industrial Designer and Exploration Design. You’ll also collaborate with Sustainability, Procurement, R&D, and Marketing functions to ensure CMF directions are viable, visionary, and impactful.
Your responsibilities:
- Shape and drive the CMF vision across several brands in close collaboration with designers, marketing, sustainability, and R&D — aligning with our identity, innovation, and circularity goals.
- Build, apply, advocate and manage a global CMF palette of colors, materials, and surface finishes, including exploring and refining material performance in combination with different light effects (light sources, optics, dynamic light content etc.
- Establish and curate a physical global CMF library and sample archive, ensuring accuracy and repeatability by measuring samples.
- Support designers in their CMF choices and storytelling, guiding selection to balance sustainability, manufacturability, aesthetics, cost, and their visual behavior under light.
- Stay ahead of material trends by liaising with suppliers and trend partners. and translating developments into future-forward mood boards and concepts to be used by the design team.
- Champion and represent CMF across the organization within the design team and to colleagues in businesses: both for implementation as well as for advanced development / innovation ensuring consistent, expressive, and high-quality outcomes.
More about you
While we value and appreciate all applicants, we believe that the following experience and skills will be needed to shine brightly in this job opening:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Design, CMF Design, Material Science, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in CMF design, preferably in product or consumer electronics industry.
- Strong portfolio showing strategic CMF thinking, hands-on development, and implementation across global portfolios.
- Experience with sustainable materials, finishes, and passion for circular design.
- Strong visual storytelling, ability to inspire and guide others, from concept through implementation.
- Excellent communication, collaboration skills across functions and fluency in English (spoken and written).
Everything we’ll do for you
You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 30,000+ people.
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce representing 99 nationalities, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together.
