Accessory Product Designer ( Promotional / Private Label )

About You 

Our ideal candidate is a designer who is highly skilled in using Photoshop to create realistic renderings of bags, soft goods, accessories, and the occasional hard good for beauty, fashion, wellness, travel brands, or a related industry.

You’ve developed products from concept to market and enjoy collaborating with others who have expertise in production, sales, and marketing.  You use design thinking to find the best solutions and solve problems and have a passion for trends and consumer insights.  After your beautiful renderings are signed off on by the client, you use Illustrator to confidently set up production artwork for prints, logos, and specs to help our factory partners bring your design to fruition.  

You're likely to: 

• Love the idea of working simultaneously on projects for different brands 
• Enjoy learning and be curious about how things are made  
• Leverage resources like WGSN for insights 
• Engage actively in the full product development process 
• Embrace an iterative design process as projects evolve and need revision  
• Be passionate about sustainability, sustainable materials, and circular design 
• Initiate solutions to overcome obstacles 
• Possess self-discipline and motivation 
• Contribute to multidisciplinary team brainstorming with a “yes and” approach 
• Communicate effectively and value diversity of thought 
• View a win for the team as a win for you 

We are looking for a talented designer who can create stunning photo-realistic renderings and presentations for clients and prepare production ready art for our manufacturing partners. You have at least a few years of experience under your belt, but more important than the exact number of years is your willingness to continually learn and grow. Our onboarding team will ensure you have the tools, support, and training not only to do the job, but to be successful in our self-organized structure.  

Salary

You'll join our team on a 4-month contract basis with the potential for a full-time position in August 2024. As a part of our design team, you will have the opportunity to showcase your creativity and expertise across various projects. The hourly rate for this contract position ranges from $35 to $45, commensurate with experience and skill level. At the end of the 4-month period there may be an opportunity to transition into a full-time role, where the annual salary would range between $70,000 to $75,000, plus incredible benefits.

About MaCher 

MaCher, a certified B Corp, partners with brands to create impactful products and solutions. We prioritize sustainable design and value-driven approaches across various sectors, disrupting the promotional products industry with innovative strategies. 

Our company culture operates as a self-organized (TEAL) business. Put simply, we are a team responsible to each other, not to a traditional organizational hierarchy. We are not big on titles, we’re big on personal accountability, personal growth and doing the right thing.  

Based in Venice, California, our team enjoys the flexibility of a hybrid schedule. We work 2 days a week in our office on Abbot Kinney Blvd and the balance of the week from wherever we like as long as we get our jobs done. 

To learn more about our culture, and how we seek to create systemic change in business, check out any of our Progress on Sustainability Reports.  

About The Opportunity  

 Your job is to design and create renderings of products, bags and accessories that support our client’s marketing and promotional strategies. You’ll do this by creating client presentations, product renderings and factory ready production artwork. 

 We don’t design products that eventually end up in landfills. We create cost effective, high perceived value promotional products that our client’s consumers love.  

 We don’t design by committee. We respect your design expertise. But you won’t be designing in a silo. As a member of our Creative Team, you’ll be interacting and collaborating daily with other designers as well as team members that have expertise in:  

• Sourcing & Production  
• Sales & Marketing  
• Research & Strategy  
• Sustainability  

Every role in the business is essential to helping us achieve our revenue targets. Our work typically includes four stages: Discover, Design, Develop and Deliver.  

Your role is key in each of these stages:  

• Discover: Researching prospective clients, trends and creating presentations to help our sales team build meaningful connections that lead to a pipeline of new business opportunities  
• Design: Applying what you have discovered to each design or collection you create.  
• Develop: Collaborating with the internal team and our clients to ensure the products are on brand, within budget and meet the needs of the brief  
• Production: Creating production ready art to ensure the final product is manufactured to match your design renderings  

You’ll work alongside an account team to effectively qualify each project brief, understand the client’s brand, expectations, and the sourcing and manufacturing resources needed to design and develop a meaningful and sustainable product solution.  

This job is perfect for a designer who experiences joy when we close a deal, whether it’s for a design that they produced, the result of team brainstorming or the work of a teammate.  

Requirements

Desired Qualifications    

• Can do the job, help others, and contribute to building our culture  
• Highly skilled in Adobe Creative Suite: most importantly Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator  
• Design Thinking  
• Experience creating individual products as well as building a cohesive collection of products  
• Effective communicator and collaborator with outstanding ability to listen, give and receive feedback  
• Experience working with salespeople 
• Desire to be involved in client facing meetings  
• Exploratory sketching (digital or analog for rapid visualization of ideas)  
• Experience applying details of brand guidelines into product design  
• Experience with tech packs or openness to learning material and production processes and costs  
• Strong visual layout skills  

• Experience creating presentation decks for clients that include visuals, statistics, and copy  
• Multi-disciplinary creativity  

The following experience & skills are also a plus.  

• Understanding of production, manufacturing, or sewing  
• Textile pattern design / print design  
• Interest in design for circularity  
• Experience presenting ideas to directly to clients/brands  
• Experience doing trend research 

We value education and industry experience, but neither will be disqualifying factors in your application. 

Our team is constantly learning and evolving; new perspectives bring new growth. We value diversity and want you to bring your whole self to work. At MaCher we don’t look for you to fit into our team, we want you to add to our team.  

If you qualify for an interview, we’ll ask you to share some of your experiences that show us how you think. We’re not looking for people who think exactly like us, in fact we are looking for someone who can help us think differently about the same problems.  

Thank you for reading this far without blindly clicking “apply.” To apply for this role, please upload your resume, a thoughtful cover letter including a link to your online portfolio.  

Benefits

This is a 4 month contract position with the possibility of becoming a full-time position in August 2024.

If you are offered a full-time role, you will be eligible for incredible company benefits, mostly unheard of in corporate America, but quite typical in certified B Corporations.

Join our creative team to design better things for a better world!