Senior Lead Designer - Home & Culinary Job at QVC
Thank you for your interest in joining our team! Qurate Retail Group comprises seven leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Zulily®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road® – all dedicated to providing a more human way to shop. Qurate Retail Group is the largest player in video commerce ("vCommerce"), which includes video-driven shopping across linear TV, ecommerce sites, digital streaming and social platforms.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Director of Design and Global Sourcing, the Senior Lead Designer leads multiple brands and completes business strategies by creating brand vision, partnering with sourcing and buying teams and elevating the design process. As the Sr Design Lead ( Sr Manager) You are responsible for the vision and creative direction for our QVC designated brands. You will collaborate with a team to organize workflow to meet the designated T&A calendar for each brand each month and provide leadership skills and product design direction for the team.
Who We Are
QVC empowers shoppers with knowledge and shares insights in a lively and engaging way. We offer an ever-changing collection of familiar brands and fresh new products – from home and fashion to beauty, electronics and jewelry – and we connect shoppers to interesting personalities, engaging stories and award-winning customer service. QVC reaches more than 200 million homes worldwide via its 12 broadcast networks and reaches millions more via multiple streaming services, websites, mobile apps and social pages.
Your Impact
- Lead the product development for the brands with a creative vision and the creation of merchandise strategies which meet the business and trend needs of the Buying Team. This includes providing strategy and brand direction to teams.
- Travel to research trends, analyze the trends and develop seasonal takeaways. Lead team to help develop a seasonal trend presentation. This includes working with Trend Service partners to maintain awareness of high-level trends and applying those to the brand's needs and direction.
- Facilitate the design process with an emphasis on identifying design opportunities for new products while providing workload planning to complete to the time and action calendar; communicate the design value points to the merchants and the details of the design concept; ensure that the product developed at the counter sample stage matches the concept design.
- Create product strategies and oversee the design for all classifications in Home - Home Textiles, Hard Home Décor and Seasonal, Storage, and Culinary (Cookware, Bakeware, Food Preparation)
- Lead conceptual and monthly design meetings to review the seasonal and monthly creative vision and product development direction with Buying Team.
- Create designs to result in products that meet the business and trend needs of the buyers and the customer.
What You Bring
- Minimum of ten years’ experience designing home products or in a wholesale/retail design environment.
- Minimum of five years’ experience managing and leading a team.
- You will have an awareness of trends from the marketplace and other trend sources including merchandising, retail, shows and periodicals
- You will be scrappy but strategic to drive product direction and influence teams to gain buy-in.
- You will have understanding of home textile and culinary construction to achieve desired designs.
- You can design Top of Bed and Sheet products.
- Technical experience of cookware, cutlery, gadget and hard home décor development through finishing.
- Sketch ability with creativity in both color and design.
- Illustrator or CAD skills with the ability to make board presentations and render original design concepts.
- Knowledge of how a product is sourced.
Remote work is not permitted in NYC at this time.
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Join us as we enrich life’s everyday moments – including yours. Apply today!
If you enjoy being a part of a team, creating experiences and delighting customers, you’ll love it here. If you’re excited about retail, fashion, media, social, live streaming, technology, customer service, design and more, you’ll find amazing projects to work on. If you want to grow professionally and learn every day, you’ll thrive with us. If you appreciate
flexible working options, our Qurated community
, where intentional connections matter and a company committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, you’ll be amazed at what’s available for our team members! We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive compensation, health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), paid time off, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, company discounts and much more. Best of all, working with Qurate Retail Group means friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers!
For Qurate Retail Group, our focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is deeply rooted in Our Principles. They call on us to Drive Progress, Act With Empathy, Be Brave, Embrace the Future, and Do What’s Right so that everyone can thrive. We are committed to ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, Qurate Retail Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at
workwithus@qurateretail.com
for assistance.
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