Company: Crest Mills
Role: Senior Textile Designer
Location: Midtown NYC Office
Role is for someone with Textile Design Experience, in NYC.
Company Description Crest Brands Group delivers innovative and fashionable consumer products across home textiles, apparel accessories, and housewares. Its divisions include Crest Mills, offering throws, blankets, bedding, pillows, bath, and beach products;
The portfolio features premier licensed brands such as BCBG, Chaps, Spyder, Rachel Roy, Elle, Rebecca Minkoff, John Deere, and Vince Camuto
Each brand is developed for long-term success, maintaining its unique heritage and identity while meeting modern consumer expectations.
Role Description The Senior Designer role is a full-time, on-site position based in New York, NY. This role is responsible for leading the design of product collections across Crest Brands Group’s portfolio, from concept development and trend research through to final specifications ready for production. Daily activities include creating and refining design concepts, preparing technical drawings and artwork, collaborating with merchandising and product development teams, and ensuring consistency with brand guidelines. The Senior Designer will review samples, provide design feedback to factories, and partner with sourcing and production to balance aesthetics, quality, and cost. This role also mentors junior designers, contributes to seasonal line planning, and presents design directions to cross-functional stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated expertise in product and graphic design for consumer goods, ideally in home textiles, accessories and bath.
- Strong skills in industry-standard design tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite such as Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and technical sketching.
- Experience conducting trend, market, and competitive research to inform seasonal concepts and product line direction.
- Proficiency in developing tech packs, specifications, and artwork files suitable for factory production and quality control.
- Ability to collaborate with merchandising, sourcing, and production teams, balancing creative vision with commercial and operational requirements.
- Track record of leading or mentoring other designers and contributing to a positive, inclusive creative studio environment.
- Excellent visual communication, presentation, and storytelling skills to convey design intent to internal and external partners.
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Fashion Design, Industrial Design, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working with licensed brands and understanding of brand guidelines, identity, and positioning is highly beneficial.
- Comfort working on-site in a fast-paced environment in New York, NY, with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
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www.crestmills.com