Senior Jewellery Designer

Monica Vinader; Hilton Head Island (SC); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Monica Vinader in Norfolk is seeking a Senior Jewellery Designer to help shape the future of modern jewellery. You will work with the PD team to deliver sustainable, high-quality pieces across Vermeil, 14k gold, gemstones, and other materials.

The role involves concepting, CAD work, design sessions, and collaboration with commercial, supply, quality and development teams, with 2-3 days in Norfolk and options for London office.

Qualifications

• Senior Jewellery Designer role focusing on concepting, creating and executing design ideas within MV Brand identity.
• Mentor junior designers and collaborate with the Director of Design and Founder to embed brand DNA.

Responsibilities

• Lead design concepting and development across categories and materials.
• Translate ideas into CAD/Illustrator, specifying construction methods and stone settings.
• Own weekly design sessions and manage milestones in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Supply, Quality and Development teams to deliver viable products.

Skills

Mentorship

Design concepting

Creative collaboration

Trend analysis

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

CAD

Job description

Who We Are

At Monica Vinader, we believe luxury should be empowering, long-lasting and responsibly made. Guided by integrity, craftsmanship and innovation, our goal is to elevate people’s lives by opening access to a more beautiful world.

Job Title: Senior Jewellery Designer

Location: Norfolk / Hybrid

Reporting To: Design Director

Who We Are

At Monica Vinader, we believe luxury should be empowering, long-lasting and responsibly made. Guided by integrity, craftsmanship and innovation, our goal is to elevate people’s lives by opening access to a more beautiful world.

From crafting consciously with recycled precious metals and ethically sourced materials, to designing enduring, versatile pieces made to be layered, loved and lived in every day, we are redefining what modern jewellery can be. We create jewellery that marks moments, tells stories and becomes part of who you are, all while making responsible luxury more accessible.

Our Commitment To Sustainability, Innovation And Positive Impact Continues To Be Recognised Across The Industry. We Are Proud To Have Received

• Responsible Jewellery Brand, 2026 – Country & Town House
• Responsible Business of the Year, 2025 – Positive Luxury
• Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces (UK & NI), 2024 – Inspiring Workplaces
  
  

With a global footprint across physical retail, e-commerce and trusted partners, we put our community at the heart of everything we do. Proudly female-founded and inclusive, we build meaningful relationships with the people who wear and love our jewellery.

We are looking for a Senior Jewellery Designer to join us as we continue this journey and help us shape what the future of modern jewellery can and should be.

Where we need your help

The Senior Designer role is an exciting opportunity to help support the design and delivery of an ambitious product pipeline, where you will bring ideas to life. You will work closely with the Product Development (PD) team to deliver beautiful, sustainable, quality products, on time and at a competitive price. You will champion the customer at every point of the product journey; with senior thinking, pace, passion and team spirit.

Your role will span the design across categories, materials and suppliers. From our famed Vermeil to fine 14k solid gold jewellery, semi-precious gemstones, pearls and Lab Grown Diamonds, leather, packaging and small other categories. No one day will be the same.

This role has a requirement to travel to Norfolk 2-3 days per week, to work with the team at our picturesque Holkham office and remote working for part of the week. London office also available instead of remote where suits.

What You’ll Do

Role Purpose

The Senior Jewellery Designer plays a vital role in concepting, creating, crafting and executing design ideas within our MV Brand identity. You will be an individual contributor within a high-performing team ensuring our designs are convertible, innovative, exciting, wearable and relevant and meet our exacting standards for quality, cost, sustainability, and compliance.

Operating in a fast-paced, agile environment, you will balance granular technical detail with strategic, creative thinking to drive a consistent, innovative product pipeline.

Creative

Key Responsibilities

• Founder led mentorship: You will have the amazing opportunity to work closely with our Artistic Director and Founder on a mentorship scheme to ensure you are fully onboarded into the DNA of the brand and our design values. Your will be responsible for optimising this unique opportunity and building this wealth of knowledge into your designs
• Concepts & ideation: You will be working collaboratively with the Director of Design, Artistic Director and Founder and Design team to Initiate and drive exciting, new creative concepts based on authentic inspiration, innovation, trends and commercial opportunities.
• Creative collaboration: You will show creative curiosity and collaboration through spontaneous exploration, clear verbal and visual articulation of your ideas and be open and responsive to direct design feedback
• Moodboards & materials: Responsible for collating and presenting cohesive inspirational imagery and materials, both digitally and physically, to support each design direction and help to guide Brand content
• Design exploration: Responsible for confidently presenting multiple design ideas following an initial brief or concept. Utilising a mix of mediums to present your ideas effectively; sketching, renders, modelled waxes, clays, 3D prints, to help bring the designs to life and finesse the designs accurately before briefing a supplier
• Design sessions: You will own the weekly design sessions, driving the agenda to optimise key milestones and development timings. Collaborating with the team to ensure the right materials are available and proposals are clearly presented
• Trends & Aesthetic Benchmarking: Responsible for keeping on the pulse of market trends to help lead on design opportunities and ensure our designs always remain authentic
• To-scale design sheets: Using Adobe Illustrator or CAD, translate design ideas into,detailed, to scale technical specifications, providing expert guidance on construction methods, stone settings, and componentry.
• Critical path: Responsible for delivering your design ideas within a tight timeframe and managing multiple design projects in parallel to achieve an ambitious product plan
  
  

Senior Leadership

• Lead by example and mentor the junior members of the team
• Drive simplicity and consistency across the design process and components
• Initiate and implement change in the design process to gain efficiencies
• Be comfortable fully representing the brand on solo supplier trips or internal presentations
  
  

Commercial, Supply, Quality and Development Collaboration

• Commercial: Collaborate with the Commercial team to ensure you’re able to respond to a commercial brief with viable design options by having a basic understanding of material cost and internal benchmarking
• Supply & Quality: Collaborate with the Supply & Quality team to ensure your designs are viable and meet our exciting quality standards for the best customer experience. Where possible, your designs should use the nominated constructions, components and materials and innovation should be treated with pragmatic and collaborative risk assessment
• Development & Suppliers: Collaborate with the development team and our international supplier base to ensure your design ideas are interpreted effectively by the suppliers through approval of CADs and samples. You should have the ability to develop a viable product from end-to-end and may need to develop ad-hoc collections
  
  

Other

• Seasonal Presentation and Creative Assets: Collaborate with the Product team to maintain accurate and inspirational creative content and timely issue of the Seasonal Product Presentation
• Design studio space and sample lifecycle: Help to manage the design studio space, so that it is an inspirational and fully functional creative space, with relevant and ordered materials. You will own the assets for your own collection and the presentation, storage and lifecycle of these
  
  

What You’ll Bring

About You

• Connect & Empower
• Communicates Effectively: You are equally comfortable briefing a factory floor as you are presenting design milestones to senior stakeholders.
• Master & Apply
• Applies Knowledge with Impact: Connects functional insights to business priorities. You have the "technical eye" to spot a production issue at a glance but the "business brain" to align your team’s efforts with company-wide commercial goals.
• Grow & Adapt:
• Embraces Change: Leads change with purpose, reframes ambiguity as opportunity. You thrive in a fast-paced setting and can pivot priorities without losing momentum.
• Challenges & Commits: Leads constructive challenge, commits with influence
  

To be successful at Monica Vinader, it helps if you...

• Are hands-on, solutions-focused, and entrepreneurial
• Collaborate openly with humility, honesty, and humour
• Embrace learning, teaching, and personal growth
• Stay resilient, adaptable, and self-motivated in a creative environment
• Speak up when you don’t know—and act fast to figure it out
  
  

Additional Requirements

Ability to document your authorisation to work in the United Kingdom.

Travel Requirements

Proven industry experience is required.

This role requires 2-3 days in our Norfolk office. Outside of this, hybrid working is an option or being based in the London office.

Regular travel oversees (Italy, India, Thailand) 2-3 times per year

Our Aims and Values

Our mission is to be the leading accessible luxury brand, by delivering outstanding quality, design and customer service. We are:

Customer Obsessed

We put our customers at the centre of every decision and deliver thoughtful, personal experiences.

Caring

We act with respect and empathy for people, communities, and the planet.

Fast Paced

We move with focus and flexibility to make progress quickly and decisively.

Exceptional

We hold ourselves to high standards and are always learning, improving, and raising the bar.

Commercial

We make smart, data-led decisions that create long-term value for the business and our customers.

Monica Vinader as a global business makes the following inclusive culture pledge:

Our jewellery is for everyone and so is our community. Together, we will continue to implement sustainable changes to ensure that career opportunities and progression are open to all. We commit to celebrating the diverse voices of our employees, partners, and the customers we serve.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties to be performed by the employee. This job description may be altered to reflect the business needs of the company.

Monica Vinader as a global business makes the following inclusive culture pledge:

Our jewellery is for everyone and so is our community.

Together, we will continue to implement sustainable changes to ensure that career opportunities and progression are open to all.

We commit to celebrating the diverse voices of our employees, partners, and the customers we serve