Product Designer

Help Shape the Future of Modern Mobility

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…