Senior Fine Jewelry Designer
Listed on 2026-02-28
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Design & Architecture
Creative Design / Digital Art, Digital Media / Production
Overview
Senior Fine Jewelry Designer
Company:
Veronique Oro Corp. HQ:
New York City (NYC). Role Scope:
Global (including U.S., Europe, and SE Asia). Visa Sponsorship Available (for qualified candidates, where permitted). Travel:
Occasionally required (domestic + international).
Veronique Oro Corp. is a global jewelry manufacturer headquartered in NYC, known for producing high-quality, mechanism-driven fine jewelry that rivals top European production. We build pieces where engineering, precision, and beauty must coexist — jewelry with function, movement, and exceptional finishing.
We are expanding both our luxury manufacturing capabilities (the backbone of the business), and our fine jewelry collections (the creative engine). This is a rare opportunity for a Senior Designer to lead across both worlds — helping elevate our design team, refine production-ready luxury designs, and develop new collections that can genuinely disrupt the fine jewelry industry.
The RoleWe’re hiring a Senior Fine Jewelry Designer to serve as a key design leader across manufacturing. You will work directly with the Creative Director and partner closely with R&D, Production, and Leadership to take concepts from idea to production launch, at the highest luxury standard. This role demands taste, technical depth, and intensity. We’re looking for someone who is here for: the long run, building something new and world-class, and has the flexibility and drive to thrive in an ambitious environment.
WhatYou’ll Do
Train and mentor a design team in luxury standards, precision design thinking, and production-ready execution. Create and enforce best practices across sketch, CAD, sampling, spec documentation, and review cycles. Raise the bar on craft: proportion, stone layout, symmetry, finishing callouts, comfort, durability, and detail integrity.
Lead design and development of fine jewelry — pieces with movement, articulation, engineered closures, or functional transformations. Collaborate with R&D and Production to ensure tolerances, wear, friction points, assembly methods, longevity, and serviceability are addressed early. Drive innovation in how mechanism jewelry is designed, tested, refined, and scaled — without sacrificing aesthetics.
Improve and optimize designs for scalability, yield, and consistency, while maintaining luxury-level finishing. Reduce production friction: rework, weak points, overly complex assemblies, and avoidable cost drivers. Build or refine systems: component libraries, setting standards, design templates, finishing specs, and QA checkpoints.
Capture the Creative Director’s vision and translate it into cohesive luxury collections with a strong, identifiable signature. Conduct concept and market research: heritage references, customer behavior, trend signals, stone/material sourcing, and competitive analysis. Own the end-to-end design process: story → sketches → CAD → prototypes → final production specs.
Serve as the design bridge between creative ambition and manufacturing reality. Lead design reviews and align stakeholders on tradeoffs (cost, complexity, timing, manufacturability, quality). Partner with Production to troubleshoot samples and production runs with speed and accountability.
Travel to factories, workshops, suppliers, and key partners to oversee sampling, solve problems, and push quality forward. Be comfortable on the floor: reviewing assemblies, finishing, setting quality, mechanism testing, and iterative prototype rounds.
Required
- Proven experience designing luxury fine jewelry with high standards of craftsmanship and finishing. Demonstrated success bringing designs into production (not just concept work).
- Strong understanding of precious materials and construction: gold fabrication or casting, stone setting implications, finishing, tolerances, wearability, and durability.
- Ability to communicate precisely through sketches, CAD, and production documentation (specs/tech packs, BOMs, tolerances, finishing notes).
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