Description
As our Bedding Product Developer, you’ll shape soft home collections from concept to production—curating and adapting vendor artwork, building color stories, and specifying constructions, quilting, and trims. This is a line-building role (not surface design only): you refine prints, make construction decisions, and deliver production-ready tech packs on schedule. Prior experience in home textiles, bedding, or soft home product development is required.
Responsibilities:
- Architect seasonal assortments/line plans for quilts, comforters/duvets, sheeting, decorative pillows, and throws across brands
- Curate/adapt vendor artwork (color indexing, repeats, overprints) and build colorways to hit line-plan goals
- Specify constructions and details—quilting layouts, stitch densities, piecing, embroidery, trims, labels, packaging
- Build and maintain tech packs & BOMs; track samples, strike-offs, lab dips, and approvals with domestic/overseas partners
- Partner with Sourcing on costing & value-engineering to meet target margins
- Translate trend & competitive insights into concept boards, color palettes, and fabric stories
- Support showroom and web merchandising so presentation matches design intent
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s in Textile Design, Product Design, Graphic Design (with soft-home experience), or related
- 2–5 years in home textiles/soft home (bedding strongly preferred)
- Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop proficiency; 3D or AI concepting a plus
- Solid understanding of fabrications, print techniques, quilting/embroidery, and production
- Portfolio shows collections and tech packs, not just standalone patterns
- Organized and collaborative with global vendors; some market/showroom travel (about 4–6 weeks/year)