Role Description:
- The creation, development, analysis, and research of new product designs and patterns for HI-MACS and Viatera. Tasks may include, but are not limited to, researching market and design trends, analyzing market trends and customer requirements, improving existing products, and collaborating with product managers and engineers.
- Generating color & pattern samples for product development and customer meetings (THD, Lowe's, etc)
- Aiding marketing and sales team by providing marketing resources and concepts for new products, and giving presentations internally and externally to promote new products.
- Ideating for innovative production technology to enhance design and manufacturability of new products. Collaborating with technical team on executing innovative production technologies
Responsibilities:
- Research and analyze market and design trends through tradeshows, trend-forecasting services and trendspotting
- Analyze competitor's design and customer requirements.
- Gain the voice of the customer through focus studies, surveys, and customer visits
- Perform regularly competitor analysis on HI-MACS and Viatera
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers.
- Collaborate with HQ Design Center or external experts.
- Assist marketing and sales team on design launch needs by sending relevant trends and creating sales tools
- Understand general and new technical manufacturing process for developing new products
- Develop design strategies and concepts.
- Develop prototypes and evaluate test samples.
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers.
- Improve existing products as needed.
- Present design & trend proposal to customers at internal and external events
RequirementsEducation and Work Experience:
- Undergraduate degree in textile, graphic, interior, industrial design or related field.
- Less than 2 years experience (newly graduated designer)
Knowledge and Skills:
- MS Office Programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Design related software programs
- Interpersonal skills
- Detail Oriented
- Organizational Skills
- Initiative skills
- Problem solving skills
- Great Social and Communication Skills