Senior Jewelry Designer & Product Development Manager

Compensation: $75,000–$90,000/year for full-time employment, based on experience

Experience: 5+ years preferred

Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

Brand: Fanci Me， website：(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..me

Location: New York City

Employment Type: Full-Time or Part-Time

Compensation: $75,000–$90,000/year for full-time employment, based on experience

Experience: 5+ years preferred

Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

Fanci Me is a global demi-fine jewelry brand creating jewelry inspired by meaningful relationships, personal expression, and the moments that connect us.

Our collections span sterling silver, gold, lab-grown diamonds, and gemstones, with a focus on rings, necklaces, earrings, and relationship- and gifting-driven jewelry.

As Fanci Me continues to grow in the U.S., we are expanding our New York team and looking for an experienced Senior Jewelry Designer & Product Development Manager to become a key product and creative voice for the brand in the U.S. market.

We are looking for someone who can bridge jewelry design and product development
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This is not a purely executional design role. You will help translate U.S. consumer insights, fashion and cultural trends, and emerging jewelry aesthetics into products with strong creative identity and commercial potential.

Working closely with our Founder/CEO in New York and our established design, product development, and manufacturing teams in China, you will help shape Fanci Me's future product direction for the U.S. and global markets.

The ideal candidate is both a strong jewelry designer and a strong product thinker — someone who can take an idea from consumer insight and initial concept through design, sampling, refinement, and final product.

• Develop original jewelry concepts and designs across rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and other demi-fine and fine jewelry categories.
• Translate consumer insights, fashion trends, cultural shifts, and social trends into commercially relevant product ideas.
• Create sketches, mood boards, design directions, references, and detailed product briefs.
• Help evolve a distinctive and recognizable Fanci Me product design language.
• Bring a strong point of view on proportion, materials, stones, color, wearability, styling, and finishing.
• Balance creativity and originality with commercial potential, target price points, and scalability.
• Identify opportunities to create hero products, signature designs, and recognizable collections
  , rather than simply adding more SKUs.

• Manage or support the development process from concept → design → sampling → refinement → final approval
  .
• Work closely with our China-based jewelry designers, CAD designers, product developers, engineers, and manufacturing teams.
• Review prototypes and samples and provide clear, actionable feedback on proportion, construction, materials, stones, finishing, comfort, and overall product quality.
• Understand manufacturing constraints and work collaboratively to solve technical challenges while protecting the original design intent.
• Help improve development speed, sample accuracy, quality, and overall product-development efficiency.
• Work across materials including sterling silver, gold, platinum, lab-grown diamonds, and gemstones.

• Act as an important U.S. product and consumer voice within the global product team.
• Stay closely connected to jewelry, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, retail, social media, and broader cultural trends.
• Regularly analyze competitor launches, emerging aesthetics, consumer behavior, creator trends, and retail environments.
• Conduct competitive product reviews, store visits, trend research, and relevant trade-show research.
• Identify whitespace opportunities rather than simply following existing trends.
• Translate market observations into specific and actionable product opportunities for the design and development teams.

• Partner with marketing, social, e-commerce, and merchandising teams to understand what products are resonating with customers — and why.
• Use sales…