THE OPPORTUNITY
We have the exciting opportunity within our Product Design Team to join us as a Midweight Product Designer for our Katie Loxton Brand.
As Katie Loxton Midweight Product Designer, you will be hands-on assisting projects from conceptual stages through to design delivery. You will work directly with the Senior Designers to deliver beautiful handbags and accessories on time and in-line with company schedule. You’ll be responsible for driving product development forward by supporting the creative development and brand styling, managing your own projects from start to finish.
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You will be supporting the wider Product Design team to increase our positioning in the market as an affordable luxury brand. You will build on new offerings with innovation and personalisation opportunities at forefront of ideation, sharing ideas with Senior Designers to provide new and exciting products.
We're looking for a candidate who considers themselves to be an innovative and dynamic designer, with a keen interest in fashion, that thrives in a collaborative and fast-paced retail environment.
You will be able to work from home twice a week in this position, working from our Head Office in Banbury 3 times a week on average, this may flex up or down dependent on business needs.
BEHIND THE BRANDS
We’re a family-run, entrepreneurial company with an exciting pace of life and a bright and friendly team. We are passionate about creating stunning products with a personal touch and innovating our business behind the scenes. We value creativity, collaboration and integrity.
HOW YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE
- Supporting in driving the brand forward in product design maintaining and increasing our positioning as an affordable luxury brand
- Executing briefs from Senior Designers to design on brand, innovative products/concepts that are visually attractive suggesting creative/innovative solutions
- Proactively take ownership of projects and support seniors in helping deliver products from concept to delivery by:
- Providing support for senior designers in development and delivery of technical specifications
- Working closely with senior designers to ensure end-to-end delivery of products including packaging, tags, care labels, POS display, testing
- Checking own work and junior members of team's work ensuring attention to detail is met and organizational skills are being adhered to
- Monitoring and managing the checking of all samples against specs with senior designers
- Helping to mentor and grow junior designers to deliver a first-time right spec sheet and sample
- Suggesting ways to improve individual processes and/or going above and beyond to proactively manage these ideas
- Using your knowledge of all adobe programs to create artwork and technical specifications
- Maintaining an awareness of competitors and regularly communicate with seniors this knowledge
- Communicate with senior designers to understand the brand’s product development strategy and support the team to ensure projects/products are delivered on time and in-line with company schedule
- Being an example of design standards to junior designers, suggesting ways to improve individual processes and/or going above and beyond to proactively manage these ideas
- Daily/weekly reports to senior designer outlining current statuses and detailing progress of all live projects
- Building on new personalisation offerings with innovation at forefront, sharing ideas with senior designers to ensure we are at the forefront of personalisation
- Working closely with junior members of the Design team to manage and maintain critical paths ensuring accuracy with sample/product codes, product descriptions, colour descriptions
- Maintaining direct relationship with senior designers and be a support design/buying teams where needed on projects that need knowledge from a product point of view
THE TALENT YOU'LL BRING
- Design qualification preferably in fashion or product design with a passion and enthusiasm related to fashion and lifestyle products
- Experience in product design, preferably within fashion and accessories brand, with proven ability to deliver designs from creative concept to final product
- A proven track record of working to processes to effectively deliver high-quality products within deadlines
- Strong visual communication skills as well as high proficiency in Creative suite such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite such as Excel, Word and Outlook
- Ability to demonstrate a great level of accuracy in both written correspondence and numeracy
- Experience of working in a fast-paced environment with ability to work to tight deadlines in high-pressure projects
- and a high degree of confidentiality and integrity
- Able to work pro-actively within a team coupled with the ability to take initiative and work autonomously
- A positive, can-do attitude and excellent team working skills
- Experience working independently under general instructions on product design projects
PERFECTLY PACKAGED
- A salary of £25,000 - £30,000
- 25 days holiday rising to 27 with length of service, plus bank holiday
- A broad benefits package including our staff favourite – a very generous staff discount across both our brands. See all of our benefits on our careers portal
- Opportunities to make an impact as well as learn and develop further
- An innovative and friendly workplace with a team we’re proud to be part of. Find out more about us and our culture on our careers portal
Joma Jewellery was founded in 2008 by Katie and Geoff Loxton, since then we have gone from strength to strength, launching Katie Loxton in 2015 and growing our business world-wide/OR beyond the UK. We know that part of that growth comes from the fact that we take diversity and inclusion very seriously. We strive to be the best in our field, and we know that happens by hiring a diverse team and encouraging everyone to be their authentic selves when working with us. We don’t hire based on cultures, preferences, or personalities – it’s what you bring to the team that counts.
We are always striving to improve our way of working to be more inclusive, diverse and equal, including encouraging all team members to bring their ideas to the table as we know this is key to our continued success.
