Embroidery & Customization Innovation Lead

Georgia Entertainment News; Austell, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Weezie, based in Atlanta with a production site in Austell, is seeking an Embroidery Development Specialist to lead development from concept to production-ready designs across embroidery, appliqué, and custom logos. This role requires owning specifications and ensuring designs translate to manufacturable outputs for launch.

You will collaborate with Design and Fulfillment, train on embroidery software and digitizing, and drive continuous improvement in post-launch customization quality, while

Qualifications

• Hands-on embroidery design experience in a commercial environment.
• Experience with embroidery and/or digitization software, with a strong aptitude to become an expert in our internal design and production system, including template creation and setup.
• Strong design eye combined with technical know-how, able to take a creative concept and figure out how to actually bring it to life.
• Comfortable assessing designs against machine capability, and flagging adjustments early.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of embroidery, appliqué, custom logo, icons, and customization capabilities, translating original design intent into production-ready, manufacturable designs across our product portfolio.
• Own design specifications, including sizing, placement, character counts, stitch types, densities, and paths, so each design executes as intended.
• Train to become our expert in our embroidery software and design programs: handle digitization and template creation, manage the upfront development process with software and digitizing partners, and serve as our design-side expert on font/template management and launch prep.
• Serve as our design-for-manufacturing expert, reviewing new designs and logos against production capabilities and run rate, flagging adjustments before they reach the production floor, and building mockups, stitch-outs, and customer and photoshoot samples to the highest standards for approval before launch.
• Develop custom logo and corporate gifting requests from concept through client-approved, production-ready file, in partnership with Business Development
• Collaborate with Design and Fulfillment on a continuous improvement program for post-launch customization quality, assisting in diagnosing and troubleshooting root-cause issues in templates, digitization, or specs.
• Test and evaluate new substrates, product placements, equipment, and customization methods to expand our capabilities, and maintain organized file systems, version control, and documentation for production files

Skills

Embroidery design

Digitization software

Template creation

Production knowledge

Cross-functional communication

Problem solving

Tools

Tajima embroidery machines

Pulse digitizing software

Job description

Weezie, based in Atlanta with a production site in Austell, is seeking an Embroidery Development Specialist to lead development from concept to production-ready designs across embroidery, appliqué, and custom logos. This role requires owning specifications and ensuring designs translate to manufacturable outputs for launch.

You will collaborate with Design and Fulfillment, train on embroidery software and digitizing, and drive continuous improvement in post-launch customization quality, while