Designer, Creative Design ​/ Digital Art, Graphic Designer

Position Overview

Our Designer’s main responsibility is to conceptualize, design, and develop a range of fashion accessories including (but not limited to) jewelry, hair accessories and small soft goods. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of materials, trends, manufacturing, and the fashion/accessory market. The Designer reports to the Design Director and works collaboratively with the merchant, sales and sourcing teams to design customer specific product, meet price points and ultimately achieve sales goals.

The primary Responsibilities and Duties of this position are:

• Collaborates closely with the Design Director and the design team to conceptualize and design customer centric product
• Adheres to a set design calendar and project deadlines
• Researches market trends – shop stores, magazines, trend services, attend major customer trend meetings
• Pre-sources beads, materials, and trims
• Prepares trend inspiration, color, material charts
• Creates designs from concept sketches to finished renderings or handmade samples
• Creates product development sheets for designs, ensuring specs are accurate and items will execute
• Participates in vendor calls to review product requirements, material call outs and design details
• Reviews vendor models and CAD images
• Reviews final vendor samples focusing on product execution and quality
• Will participate in customer meetings as needed
• Works collaboratively with the merchant, sales and sourcing teams

• An Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Art, Textiles, Merchandising, Fashion Design or related field
• Minimum of 2-4 years’ experience of jewelry/accessory design
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud programs;
  Illustrator, Photoshop, hand rendering and manipulating
• Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature
• Ability to work as part of a team; collaborating with coworkers, maintaining a cross-functional relationship
• Ability to gain an understanding of department and corporate strategic vision and goals
• Ability to work in a fast paced fashion environment, under pressure of short deadline and ever changing priorities
• Ability to participate in design meetings to offer suggestions and input
• Ability to work extra hours to meet deadlines as necessary

$70,000 to $75,000 Annually

• Medical/Dental/Vision/FSA
• Life Insurance/AD&D/Long Term Disability
• 401k/company match/profit sharing
• PTO
• Employee Perks