Associate Designer, Crate & Barrel Textiles

The Associate Designer, Crate & Barrel 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 a specific product category in support of Associate Director, and help manage the daily functions of the design area including the ownership of technical development briefs, and sample development management.

A Day in the Life of an Associate Designer, Crate & Barrel Textiles...

• Own the product design process for textile categories in Entertaining, Kitchen, and Doormats 

• Responsible for overall assortment; develop into sustainable needs, adherent to set trends

• Oversee individual products during the research, communication, spec, development and approval stages, within a set calendar

• May attend trade shows and attend vendor meetings on a seasonal basis, and manage the sampling and design requests to the vendors

• Create presentations for key cross-functional design milestones, digital and physical

• Work collaboratively with the Hardgoods team to ensure cohesive tablescapes and kitchen stories

• Perform renderings, digital design work and CAD for the product line, that reflects the provided mood

• Own the development of technical product design specifications and CADs

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

• Maintain seasonal concept documents and design records, digital and physical

• Maintain color boards relevant to categories; physical and digital

• Manage design samples through their entire lifecycle

What you'll bring to the table...

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

• Understanding of home trends and current fabrications as it relates to the current market trends

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

• Ability to make decisions on operational matters that impact the effectiveness of the work

• Ability to translate business and design objectives into successful products

• Strength in building effective cross functional relationships to achieve results

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

We'd love to hear from you if you have...

• 3 years experience designing textiles for home furnishings

• Experience developing knits, wovens, and prints for home furnishing markets

• Understanding of different yarns, fibers, dyes, fabrics, knitting, weaving, and printing techniques

• Experience with technical design and design brief creation

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

• Strong knowledge of design and art history

• Must have excellent computer skills in Illustrator and Photoshop to communicate design ideas through CADS and Specs

• Must have experience working with vendors and mills to execute design

• Excellent communication and organizational skills to relay design ideas to merchants

• Must pass a Munsell Color test to perform color approvals