• Associate Designer, Crate & Barrel Textiles

    Crate & Barrel (Northbrook, IL)


    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

     

    Euromarket Designs, Inc., which does business as Crate and Barrel and CB2, will be referred to as “the Company”. The Company is deeply committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact the location you are applying to here and ask to speak with a manager regarding the nature of your request. The Company is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. The Company participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the US. State / City Compliance: The Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal history, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.