New Product Design Coordinator

Executive Talent Solutions; Pittsfield (MA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

health insurance

profit-sharing

a retirement plan

awesome coworkers

room to grow

Job summary

Executive Talent Solutions in Pittsfield, MA is seeking an NPD Coordinator to help manage the entire new product development process. You'll support contracts, specs, templates and schedules, and liaise with international suppliers.

You'll work with a 10-person NPD team of designers, art directors, writers and managers in a fast-paced, in-house setting with travel for international supplier meetings.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience working in creative and collaborative environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Mastery of MS Office and Google Workspace, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite.

Responsibilities

• Assist the NPD Manager to coordinate artist contracts.
• Help develop product specifications, templates and schedules.
• Assist in selecting and communicating with dozens of international suppliers.
• Support the team to solve big and small challenges across projects.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Team collaboration

Tools

MS Office

Google Workspace

Excel

PowerPoint

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

We make unique and useful items designed in collaboration with artists all over the world. It all starts with our 10-person New Product Development (NPD) team, made up of designers, art directors, writers, and project managers. The team dreams up product ideas, directs and refines work by the artists who make those products, and collaborates with partner factories all over the world to manufacture about 120 new items each year that are sold in thousands of shops in the U.S. and overseas.

As NPD Coordinator, you’ll manage projects for all of these processes. You’ll help the NPD Manager to coordinate artist contracts; you’ll help develop product specifications, templates and schedules; and you’ll assist in selecting and communicating with dozens of international suppliers. There will be zigs and zags to every project, and you’ll work with the team to creatively solve both big and small challenges.

This is a full-time, in-house position in Pittsfield, Mass., smack in the middle of the beautiful, bucolic Berkshires – just a few hours drive from NYC and Boston.

It’s a fun, fast-paced, open work environment.

• health insurance
• profit-sharing
• a retirement plan
• awesome coworkers
• room to grow

This position will require some international travel.

YOU ARE:

Curious and super-organized. Entrepreneurial, flexible and kind. You’re an amazing communicator and problem-solver, and you love working with a team to learn new things. You like art and people and just a little bit of chaos to keep things interesting.

YOUR SKILLS ARE:

3+ years of experience working in creative and collaborative environments.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Mastery of MS Office and Google Workspace, especially Excel and PowerPoint.

Familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite.