Pattern Maker
About Ruggable:
Ruggable is a Los Angeles-based, venture-backed, rapidly growing e-commerce startup that is disrupting the $7B rug industry and revolutionizing the market for residential rugs. Our patented 2-Piece Rug System allows you to remove the top layer of your rug and wash it in your home washing machine, offering an affordable, stylish and convenient solution for young families, pet owners, and busy individuals. We're a small, entrepreneurial team with big ambitions. We have a strong brand, established traction, and amazing advisors fueling our steady growth. This is an opportunity to get in at the ground floor and solve for complex challenges, while charting your own career.
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Pattern Maker who will work closely with Industrial Design, Project Management, and Global Sourcing teams in the creation and execution of revolutionary concepts that solve consumer pain points. The Pattern Maker will be responsible for the ideation, construction, and testing of physical soft goods prototypes that turn into highly functional production-ready products.
What You’ll Do:
- Drive the design and development of innovative soft-goods products from ideation through to production
- Ensure products meet aesthetic, manufacturing, costing, and functional requirements
- Oversee patterning and construction of prototypes and sew-by samples to test and/or validate functional concepts
- Direct and manage workflow/priorities for sample sewers/cutters
- Drape, pattern, and iterate on a wide range of furniture upholstery covers with a meticulous and analytical eye until the fit and function is perfected and ready for production
- Work with the Operations team to ensure production readiness by creating production patterns, developing sewing instructions, training sewing team, and ensuring product meets all testing criteria
- Review, amend and approve production line samples before launch of products
- Gather insights, make recommendations, and present status updates to Design Management
- This role is 80% pattern making/drafting
What You’ll Need to Have:
Required:
- 5+ years of experience in pattern making and/or technical design/soft goods design
- Highly proficient in draping, pattern making (both digital and on paper) and construction of soft goods products (e.g., upholstery, home goods, garments, etc.)
- A strong understanding of material/textile and trim properties
- Ability to design and create rapid prototypes that solve complex functional and fit challenges with relative autonomy
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with impeccable attention to detail
- Excellent project management, analytical, and organizational skills
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, pattern digitization, and project management software
- Ability to lift, assemble, and move large and heavy objects (e.g. furniture)
Preferred:
- Experience in full product life cycle development (ideation to mass production)
- Knowledge of BOMs, target margins, and costing analysis
- Experience with in-house manufacturing
- Experience with furniture upholstery
- Experience using various workshop tools to create a wide range of prototypes
At Ruggable, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Ruggable is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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