Product Designer

Responsibilities

• Lead the visual direction of soft goods lines, aligning with brand vision, consumer insights, and seasonal product briefs.
• Design innovative travel products and accessories with a focus on fashion, materials, color, silhouette, usability, and elevated consumer appeal.
• Apply a refined eye for materials, finishes, trims, hardware, and detailing to produce premium, fashion-forward items that fit brand positioning.
• Leverage knowledge of textiles, fabric constructions, material applications, and finishing techniques to inform design decisions and enhance quality and performance.
• Create detailed product specifications, tech packs, material callouts, and development documentation for manufacturing partners.
• Collaborate with Product Development to translate consumer needs into meaningful design concepts.
• Lead the selection and management of color, material, trim, and hardware samples, ensuring alignment with seasonal direction and storytelling.
• Coordinate material development with sourcing teams to move products from concept through commercialization.
• Evaluate prototypes and production samples, providing clear feedback to manufacturers to ensure quality, fit, finish, functionality, and design integrity.
• Research market trends, consumer behaviors, fashion influences, emerging materials, and fabrication techniques to inspire forward-thinking concepts.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve quality, functionality, cost efficiency, material execution, and overall consumer experience.
• Manage development timelines and sample tracking to ensure on-time delivery against milestones and presentation deadlines.
• Collaborate across functions to maintain consistency across product collections, branding, and storytelling initiatives.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in product design, soft goods, accessories, fashion, or related consumer product categories.
• Strong background designing aesthetically driven consumer products with emphasis on soft goods, bags, travel accessories, or lifestyle items.
• Experience within consumer brands, retail, DTC, or fashion-driven product organizations.
• Proven ability to balance creative design vision with technical product execution and commercialization requirements.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with merchandising, sourcing, development, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
• 3+ years mentoring or guiding designers and contributing to collaborative creative team environments.

Technologies

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Microsoft Office
• Vizcom
• Adobe Creative Suite

Benefits

• Flexible Time Away
• Company-paid holidays
• Hybrid work flexibility
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Accounts
• Wellness programs
• 401(k) company match
• Employee-led engagement initiatives focused on wellbeing, collaboration, and belonging

Working Environment

• Hybrid office environment with four days in the office and one day remote, with hands-on interaction with physical products
• Occasional travel for vendor development, market research, and inspiration

Capabilities

• Excellent visual communication, sketching, presentation, and storytelling skills
• Strong design aesthetic with a passion for consumer products, fashion trends, color, materials, and storytelling
• Ability to translate consumer insights and market trends into commercially successful product concepts
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Technical understanding of soft goods construction, manufacturing processes, materials, and product development workflows
• Strong problem solving mindset with the ability to balance creativity, functionality, quality, and cost considerations
• Adaptability and agility in evolving business environments and shifting priorities
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to build strong partnerships across teams and external vendors