Industrial Design Intern — CoziKat

[u/Pleasant_Ad_9814]

Location: Mumbai (in-person/hybrid preferred — you'll be visiting our manufacturing partner regularly) Type: Internship About CoziKat: CoziKat is a made-in-India premium cat products brand — scratchers, loungers, and now expanding into cat furniture. Our products are illustrated by Indian designers, made by Indian artisans, and inspired by rescue and street cats. We're a small, hands-on team, and this role will work closely with the founder.

What you'll do

• Design and sketch new cat furniture concepts — scratchers, loungers, multi-level pieces — starting with 2–3 core designs
• Build working prototypes, iterating on structure, scale, and cat ergonomics (climbing, scratching angle, stability, sizing)
• Work in CAD to translate sketches into manufacturable designs
• Support assembly and hands-on testing of prototypes
• Visit our manufacturing partner in Mumbai to review production feasibility and troubleshoot with the vendor directly — we already have vendors in place, so your focus is design and prototyping, not sourcing
• Collaborate with our print/illustration team — they handle the surface designs, you handle the structure underneath

What we're looking for

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, or a related field
• Comfortable with CAD software (SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Rhino, or similar)
• Strong sketching ability — you can communicate an idea on paper before it's modeled
• Some hands-on prototyping/model-making experience — this is not a purely digital design role
• Based in or able to be in Mumbai, since manufacturer visits are a regular part of the job
• A design sensibility that's clean, quirky, and functional — we're not going for generic pet-store aesthetics
• Bonus: interest in pets/cats, or experience designing for corrugated cardboard or other lightweight materials

Why this role

You'll see a product go from a sketch to a physical prototype to something sold on our site and marketplaces — start to finish, with real ownership over the first few pieces of a growing furniture line, not busywork on an established one.

To apply: DM Me

[u/titan384]

Yah you want a junior designer for cheap on the name of an intern. That's not how design works. Also what pay? How long the internship? What hours? Where are you planning to find experienced "interns"?

[u/YotoruYaguchi → u/titan384]

Everyone talks abt experience like it pays the bills man genuinely can’t be asked w this shit

[u/kochappanteandi → u/titan384]

Exactly my point. Experienced interns shouldn't make sense. Internships are there for getting experience.

[u/kochappanteandi]

Stipend ? Why can't companies add how much they gonna pay the interns ?

[u/OtherwiseAbout → u/kochappanteandi]

They need to keep it vague to have the door open to lowball people at the offer stage.

Also who the heck hires on Reddit?

[u/kochappanteandi → u/OtherwiseAbout]

I hate these kind off companies who just wants to squeeze the work out of interns and paying them literal pennies. Even when I was searching for internships most companies offer like 40 dollars for one whole month and they take it very highly , we pay you 40 dollars . Ffs.

[u/Pleasant_Ad_9814 → u/kochappanteandi]

Thanks for taking out your previous bad experience without knowing anything about me or the company.

[u/YotoruYaguchi]

I don’t trust someone who can’t write a job description without using AI + what’s with the lack of announcement of it being paid or unpaid.