Textile Design Team Lead
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:
Ruggable is seeking an experienced Textile Design Team Lead to join its Textile Design Team. This role needs a creative and highly detail-oriented individual who is excellent at leading others, managing time, meeting deadlines, and having a passion for rug/interior design. The ideal candidate will be skilled in mentoring, teamwork, and CAD tools such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, show strong drawing and fine art skills, and be excited about textile design and stay on top of home décor trends.
What You’ll Do:
- Be Responsible for the high-quality execution of designs in all assigned collections that are relevant and trend-setting while upholding the aesthetic of the Ruggable brand
- Lead the Textile Design team to develop new designs following from concept to production based on the guided direction
- Partners with Design Managers and other Leads to develop strategy, calendars, line direction from product conception through final execution.
- Develops and tracks a design schedule to ensure timely completion of designs and styles according to the calendar.
- Positively leads and mentors other designer staff.
- Ensure your team creates cohesive and clean files that work cross-departmental for an omnichannel approach to brand engagement
- Prioritize tasks and meet deadlines with strong communication skills: listen, ask relevant questions and take action effectively.
- Strong capability of time management and prioritization
- Thoughtful and self-reflective, willing to learn
- Team-player, collaborative, hard-working, organized, and goal-oriented
What You’ll Need to Have:
Required:
- Excellent Proficiency in Photoshop, Google Docs, MS Suite, Apple Work Suite
- Ability to work independently, set priorities, and handle multiple tasks with concentration and accuracy to meet multiple deadlines and shifting priorities to meet company specifications and production schedules/requirements..
- Ability to partner and lead to improve performance and achieve professional goals
- Strong knowledge of formulating color palettes and being able to color match effectively.
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills necessary to work both within the team and cross-functionally
- Consistent, proven ability to manage and implement projects and contribute to concept development.
- Ability to approach unfamiliar situations and conceptualize a range of creative and imaginative solutions with ease, using creativity skills to develop accurate design results.
- Must show understanding of fashion and interior trends and how they relate to flooring in addition to upholding the elevated aesthetic and design alignment for the Ruggable brand
- Proven artistic achievement & a broad-based design portfolio is a requirement.
- College degree in a related field, Textile/ Graphic Design or Fine Art is preferred or a minimum of 3+ years equivalent experience.
- Experience in managing and designing products with high-profile collaborators in the fields of Fashion, Art, Music, and Street Culture.
- A strong sense of mentorship with a proven ability to grow and develop creatives/designers under you
Preferred:
- A portfolio of traditional, Persian, or ornate rug or textile patterns/designs is a big plus
- A strong interest or aptitude in-home/interior design textiles, specifically rug/carpet design a HUGE plus.
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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