# Head of Industrial Design at Halter

Halter is hiring a Head of Industrial Design in Auckland, New Zealand. Level rates it Little AI ●○○○; you can [apply on Halter](https://jobsbylevel.com/go/0e7ab7c0-014b-4f3e-afec-8294959bd2ae?utm_medium=ai-agent).

AI Level 1, AI centrality 28 out of 100. Auckland.

## Details

- Company: [Halter](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/halter)
- AI level: AI Level 1 (score 28 out of 100)
- Location: Auckland
- Posted: November 7, 2026
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## Description

About Halter At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund , Bessemer Venture Partners , BOND, DCVC , Blackbird , Promus Ventures , Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures . To find out more, visit our LinkedIn & Instagram . About the role Every Halter device lives outside, on an animal, for years. It gets rained on, baked in the sun, dragged through mud and leaned on by a 700kg cow. It also has to be fitted by a farmer or rancher in a busy yard with a few hundred more animals waiting, sit comfortably on each animal throughout the seasons, and be recognisable as Halter from a distance. In Ag, form follows function but that doesn't mean our farmers can't be proud of their kit. We aspire to set the design standard for Ag-tech globally; both out of the box and after 5 years of hard work alongside our farmers. Industrial design is a new team at Halter, and we're hiring a Head of Industrial Design to build it. We're growing the hardware organisation so we can develop multiple new products in parallel - industrial design is a critical piece of that puzzle. Each one needs to be tough, comfortable for the animal, delightful for our farmers, affordable enough to make millions of, and beautiful on top of all that. You'll report directly to the VP of Hardware & Platform and work closely with the leaders of Hardware Engineering, Hardware Delivery, and Reliability & Failure Analysis. You'll own the form, feel and physical experience of every new product Halter makes, and you'll build a world class team to do it. This is a hands-on role, it's being built from scratch. Especially early on, you'll be sketching and making rough models yourself, and spending as much time on farms as in the studio. Our devices are the most visible thing about Halter on a farm, and we want them to be part of our advantage. Most of all, we’re looking for someone who loves creating, has no ego about where the best idea comes from, and gets deep satisfaction watching an early sketch turn into a novel product redefining one of the globe's biggest industries. We’ve experienced that feeling with our collars and we’re ready to do it again. We're looking for the best talent, wherever in the world that might be. If you're excited by the opportunity and open to making New Zealand home, we'd love to chat. What you'll do Own the design of every Halter hardware product Own form, colour, and finish across all future Hardware innovation. Strong collaboration with our product design engineers and input on ergonomics and materials. Define and hold a Halter industrial design language that scales across collars and future products, so a Halter device is recognisable at a glance. It must compliment our wider branding and product design languages. Judge feasibility the way the best designers do: on function first, then aesthetics, materials, and what it will cost to make a million of them. Use AI to accelerate the work. Explore more directions, iterate faster, get to great sooner, and bring the rest of the hardware team along with you. Design for the animal and the farmer Treat animal comfort and welfare

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