TEMP Product Designer - Accessories & Soft Goods Packaging
Kendo Brands, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the design and development of innovative soft goods and accessories, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines. Responsibilities include managing projects from concept to production and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead Design Projects: Spearhead the design and development process specifically for soft goods packaging and accessory projects, from concept to final production, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and marketing strategies.
- Trend Analysis & Inspiration (Soft Goods & non-formula projects): Stay ahead of trends in beauty, fashion, and specifically accessories (bags, pouches, merch, etc.) to inspire fresh and unique concepts.
- Conceptualization & Presentation (Soft Goods): Develop innovative soft goods and accessory concepts that blend aesthetics with functionality, portability, organization, and sustainability.
- Technical Expertise: Oversee the creation of technically accurate specifications for soft goods and accessories, ensuring designs are feasible for production, meet quality standards (durability, zipper strength, seam integrity), and are cost-effective.
- Collaboration & Communication: Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Product Development, Sourcing, and Operations, to ensure designs are aligned with product sizing, brand vision, cost targets, sustainability goals, and overall business objectives.
- Vendor Management: Collaborate and communicate with external vendors specializing in soft goods and accessories manufacturing for design concepts, prototyping, and production.
- Prototyping & Testing: Manage the prototyping process, ensuring accurate representation of design intent for all projects.
- Brand Consistency: Ensure all soft goods packaging and accessory designs adhere to brand guidelines, maintaining consistency and strengthening brand identity.
- Project Management: Manage multiple projects simultaneously, adhering to deadlines and budget constraints.
Requirements
- Accessory & Trend Knowledge: A deep passion for and understanding of current trends in beauty, fashion, accessories, and merch, especially through the lens of Gen Z and the modern beauty consumer.
- Soft Goods Expertise: A comprehensive knowledge of soft goods packaging materials (textiles, linings, closures), construction techniques (sewing, heat sealing, etc.), and manufacturing processes.
- Visual Communication Skills: Excellent sketching and rendering skills to communicate design concepts effectively.
- Industry Experience: 5+ years of packaging and/or accessory design experience
- High School education required
Key Skills
- Accessory & Trend Knowledge
- Soft Goods Expertise
- Visual Communication Skills
- Industry Experience
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop or a similar platform
About Kendo Brands, Inc.
Kendo is the small but mighty force behind your favorite beauty products. A play on the words “can do,” Kendo is redefining the beauty industry through next-generation products, visionary campaigns and unforgettable retail presence. Kendo creates original founder brands, partnering with major faces from fashion and entertainment. The house of brands currently includes KVD Beauty, Fenty Beauty by Rihanna, Fenty Skin, Fenty Hair, Ole Henriksen Skincare, and Lip Lab. We tell their stories to bring to life the dream products you’ve always wanted, but have never been able to find. Come grow with us! Since Kendo’s founding in 2010, we’ve experienced phenomenal growth and accelerated global expansion. We’re based in San Francisco, but we also operate headquarters in Toronto, London, Paris and Singapore, our products are in 27 countries and counting. And, we couldn’t grow without our people. We embrace entrepreneurial spirit, so the opportunities are endless. We believe in five values,
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