Associate Designer, Crate & Kids Textiles

Overview

The Associate Designer, Kids Textiles, is an important designer role within the brand’s Design and Development department that helps build the future vision of Crate & Barrel through innovative product design. This position will own design and support the creation of the wall art, seasonal and soft accessories and soft seating categories in support of the Associate Director, and help manage the daily functions of the design area including the ownership of technical development briefs, color checking, and sample development management.

• Own and support the product design process for Wall Art, Soft Seating, Seasonal and Soft Accessories under the guidance of the Associate Director

• Create presentations of key cross-functional design milestones

• Design original surface patterns and CADs for the product lines

• Own the development of technical product design specifications and CADs

• Own product amendment comments and revisions through the design development and sampling process

• Maintain seasonal concept documents and design records

• Develop set up of category presentations for product and assortment reviews

• Partner with sourcing team to maintain swatch libraries

• Manage design samples through their entire lifecycle

• Manage color checking and approvals for textile categories

• Organize and maintain sample storage and review spaces

• Identify and support opportunities for improvement in business management and process design

• Support and model excellent service to internal and external customers in all forms of action and communication

• Ability to paint in various styles to support the team with print and pattern needs

• Passion for design, style and decorating and knowledge of design and art history

• Ability to interact and collaborate with senior members of the team and major vendors with experience on product development

• Ability to translate business and design objectives into successful products

• Experience building effective relationships with internal partners in Design and Merchandising and Sourcing to help execute cross functional synergy and collaboration

• Must provide a link to portfolio (including password) on resume or provide PDF samples

• 3 years experience working in Textile home or fashion and manufacturing/retail industry

• AA, BFA or MA in Textile Design or any related design field

• Experience with technical design and design brief creation

• Strong Hand Sketching and concept generation

• Strong knowledge of design and art history

• Strong Technical knowledge and experience with Procreate

• Knowledge of Adobe Creative suite, Photoshop and Illustrator essential