Licensed Brand Designer – Textiles & Licensed Brands

Designer Interiors; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free on-site gym

shuttle from Secaucus

Health, Vision & Dental Benefits

Flex spending

Transit

Job summary

VCNY Home, based in North Bergen, NJ, seeks a Licensed Brand Designer to translate brand direction into cohesive licensed product lines for bedding and home textiles. You will ensure brand integrity across artwork, colors, logos, and assets while collaborating with licensors and internal teams.

This hybrid role offers on-site work Mon-Thu with a Friday WFH day and an on-site gym and comprehensive benefits. Ideal candidates have 3–5+ years in consumer product design, strong textile and pattern

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Graphic Design, Textile Design, Fashion Design, Industrial Design, Visual Communications) or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–5+ years of hands-on design experience specializing in consumer physical products, textiles, or soft goods.
• Experience designing hard goods (e.g., home, molded products, ceramics) is a strong plus.
• Experience working with licensed brands, licensor style guides, brand guidelines, and approval processes is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Licensed Brand & Creative Execution: Translate creative direction and product briefs into compelling product designs and cohesive collections for licensed brands.
• Interpret and apply licensor style guides, brand guidelines, logos, character artwork, icons, patterns, and other approved assets across bedding, decorative pillows, and related product categories.
• Develop original, brand-right artwork and product concepts while maintaining the visual identity and integrity of each licensed property.
• Incorporate internal and licensor feedback and revise artwork throughout the licensing review and approval process.
• Maintain consistency and accuracy across approved artwork, colors, logos, character assets, and product applications.
• Apply an excellent color sense to build seasonal palettes, generate colorways, and establish harmonious tonal balances across product lines.
• Use NedGraphics to build seamless repeat patterns and execute meticulous color separations for factory production.
• Maintain extreme attention to detail when scaling artwork, fine-tuning repeat grids, and ensuring design integrity across various soft substrates and hard goods surfaces.
• Create vector logos, badges, placements, and graphic treatments in Adobe Illustrator for direct application onto products.
• Apply surface graphics, logos, and decorative treatments across soft goods as well as hard goods.
• Utilize Adobe Photoshop for precision image manipulation, texture mapping, color matching, and photorealistic product mockups.
• Build precise artwork placement guides and detailed graphics maps showing exact scale, measurements, and position on product components.
• Review production samples, strike-offs, lab dips, and physical samples with a critical eye for color accuracy and fidelity to NedGraphics colorways.
• Troubleshoot manufacturing limitations and adjust artwork files directly to maintain production timelines and quality standards.

Skills

Textile design

Pattern design

Color theory

Brand guidelines

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design or related field

Tools

NedGraphics

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Pantone color matching

Job description

VCNY Home, based in North Bergen, NJ, seeks a Licensed Brand Designer to translate brand direction into cohesive licensed product lines for bedding and home textiles. You will ensure brand integrity across artwork, colors, logos, and assets while collaborating with licensors and internal teams.

This hybrid role offers on-site work Mon-Thu with a Friday WFH day and an on-site gym and comprehensive benefits. Ideal candidates have 3–5+ years in consumer product design, strong textile and pattern