Product Designer, Stationery and Retail Products

Design Observer; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive

Vacation and personal days

401K

Medical and dental benefits

Job summary

Design Observer Group in Irving, TX is seeking a product designer with 3+ years of experience in fashion, crafts, home décor, or stationery. You will support trend development, manage libraries, and help cross‑functional teams with file specs and color callsouts.

You will collaborate with teams in the US and China, develop trend boards, assist with product mock-ups, and contribute to the evolution of our design system and templates. Remote options are limited to our global partnerships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in product design, fine arts, fashion design, or equivalent job experience.
• At least 3 years of product design experience with a previous emphasis in fashion, crafts, home décor, or stationery business as a plus.
• Experience with Trend Development and New Program Launches is a plus.
• Knowledge of import/export, and retail sales business a plus.
• Track record of developing, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with internal and external partners.
• Willingness and ability to take on increased category challenges and responsibilities.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
• Highly proficient in Illustrator, Photoshop & Microsoft Office
• Work from Irving, TX-based offices with our colleagues in Ningbo, China.

Responsibilities

• This role will be fluid/flexible in both meeting the needs of the business as well as in ensuring that an in-depth and robust learning environment will be created for the associate.
• Partner with Sr. Director, Product Design to learn the design and development process.
• Work with the Manager, Design to organize and maintain font, digital asset & template libraries.
• Support design and product development colleagues with file specifications and help both teams to ensure that file art sizing, color callouts, and design specification details are accurate.
• Assist with trend research, making trend boards and creating seasonal trend palettes for all design team members to utilize.
• Collaborate with design and product development team members in both the US and China to organize swatch books and samples.
• Assist Product Development teams to adjust files as needed and help to print out and make product mock-ups or flats.
• Work with the Manager, Product Design to grow and expand skills over time and work on product design projects.
• Collaborate with teams to analyze the retail market on a regular basis and recognize trends and seek out new ideas for product concepts.
• Support the Manager, Product Design to maintain our product specification process and templates to ensure consistency of specs used amongst all design team members.
• Support the development of new product concepts to help drive our business forward.
• Partner with Product Development Team Members to review and analyze the competitive retail landscape of our category and ensure we are developing concepts and programs to stay ahead of our competition while driving innovation and newness into the market.
• Help to incorporate data driven decision making at the core of all that we do to drive a win-win profitable outcome for our company and our customers.

Skills

Illustrator

Photoshop

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree in product design, fine arts, fashion design, or equivalent

Tools

Font libraries

Job description

This role and salary level will be based upon experience. For the right more junior team member, it is an excellent opportunity to learn/grow. For a more seasoned Designer, we will discuss compensation and Job Title. This role will report to the Manager, Product Design.

Responsibilities

• This role will be fluid/flexible in both meeting the needs of the business as well as in ensuring that an in-depth and robust learning environment will be created for the associate.
• Partner with Sr. Director, Product Design to learn the design and development process.
• Work with the Manager, Design to organize and maintain font, digital asset & template libraries.
• Support design and product development colleagues with file specifications and help both teams to ensure that file art sizing, color callouts, and design specification details are accurate.
• Assist with trend research, making trend boards and creating seasonal trend palettes for all design team members to utilize.
• Collaborate with design and product development team members in both the US and China to organize swatch books and samples.
• Assist Product Development teams to adjust files as needed and help to print out and make product mock-ups or flats.
• Work with the Manager, Product Design to grow and expand skills over time and work on product design projects.
• Collaborate with teams to analyze the retail market on a regular basis and recognize trends and seek out new ideas for product concepts.
• Support the Manager, Product Design to maintain our product specification process and templates to ensure consistency of specs used amongst all design team members.
• Support the development of new product concepts to help drive our business forward.
• Partner with Product Development Team Members to review and analyze the competitive retail landscape of our category and ensure we are developing concepts and programs to stay ahead of our competition while driving innovation and newness into the market.
• Help to incorporate data driven decision making at the core of all that we do to drive a win-win profitable outcome for our company and our customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in product design, fine arts, fashion design, or equivalent job experience.
• At least 3 years of product design experience with a previous emphasis in fashion, crafts, home décor, or stationery business as a plus.
• Experience with Trend Development and New Program Launches is a plus.
• Knowledge of import/export, and retail sales business a plus.
• Track record of developing, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with internal and external partners.
• Willingness and ability to take on increased category challenges and responsibilities.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
• Highly proficient in Illustrator, Photoshop & Microsoft Office
• Work from Irving, TX-based offices with our colleagues in Ningbo, China.

Compensation

• Competitive pay package to include bonus incentive.
• Vacation, personal days, 401K, medical and dental benefits.