Product Designer

Help Shape the Future of Modern Mobility Role Overview

This role supports Travelpro’s evolution into a more design‑led, consumer‑centric, and fashion‑conscious brand. The Product Designer, Travel & Handbags is responsible for creating travel bags, handbags, backpacks, and other soft goods that seamlessly blend style, functionality, quality, and innovation. This position requires a strong understanding of fashion, materials, color, silhouette, and consumer trends, combined with technical product development expertise.

The ideal candidate possesses a refined design aesthetic and a passion for creating products that resonate emotionally with consumers while meeting the performance expectations of modern travelers. This role plays a critical part in elevating Travelpro’s product offering, helping shape a more premium and aspirational brand identity that appeals to a broader lifestyle and fashion‑oriented consumer.

Success in this role includes delivering innovative and elevated product concepts, influencing category direction, fostering strong cross‑functional partnerships, and bringing market‑relevant products from concept through commercialization.

• Lead the creative design and aesthetic direction of soft goods product lines, ensuring alignment with brand vision, consumer insights, and seasonal product briefs.
• Design innovative travel products and accessories with a strong focus on fashion, materials, color, silhouette, usability, and elevated consumer appeal.
• Demonstrate a highly developed eye for materials, finishes, trims, hardware, and detailing to create premium, fashion‑forward products that align with brand positioning.
• Leverage deep knowledge of textiles, fabric constructions, material applications, and finishing techniques to inform design decisions and enhance product quality, performance, and aesthetic appeal.
• Create detailed product specifications, tech packs, material callouts, and development documentation for manufacturing partners.
• Partner closely with Product Development to understand consumer needs and meaningfully integrate them into design.
• Lead the selection and management of color, material, trim, and hardware samples, ensuring consistency with seasonal design direction and product storytelling.
• Communicate and coordinate material development with sourcing teams to bring products from concept through commercialization.
• Evaluate prototypes and production samples, providing clear feedback and revisions to manufacturing partners to ensure quality, fit, finish, functionality, and design integrity.
• Research market trends, consumer behaviors, fashion influences, emerging materials, and innovative fabrication techniques to inspire forward‑thinking product concepts and category innovation.
• Drive product excellence by proactively identifying opportunities to improve quality, functionality, cost efficiency, material execution, and overall consumer experience.
• Manage development timelines and sample tracking to ensure on‑time delivery against key milestones and presentation deadlines.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to maintain consistency across product collections, branding, and storytelling initiatives.

• 3‑5 years of experience in product design, soft goods, accessories, fashion, or related consumer product categories.
• Strong background in designing aesthetically driven consumer products with an emphasis on soft goods, bags, travel accessories, or lifestyle products.
• Experience working within consumer brands, retail, DTC, or fashion‑driven product organizations.
• Proven success balancing creative design vision with technical product execution and commercialization requirements.
• Experience collaborating cross‑functionally with merchandising, sourcing, development, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
• 3+ years mentoring or guiding designers and contributing to collaborative creative team environments.

• Excellent visual communication, sketching, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• Strong design aesthetic with a passion for consumer products, fashion trends, color, materials, and storytelling.
• Ability to translate consumer insights and market trends into commercially…