Senior Associate Designer - brooklinen (NYC, NY)
We’re excited to be looking for a Senior Associate Designer to join our team in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Reporting to our Design Director, you’ll support the seasonal development across bedding and bath categories. This role is perfect for you if you’re excited to join our small (but mighty!) Design team to help bring our assortments to life through color, pattern, design, and texture. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
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What you’ll do
Create CADs for all bedding + bath categories for each seasonal delivery.
Develop and recolor prints, create bed looks, and research construction/finishing techniques.
Assist our Design Director and Senior Color Designer with day-to-day tasks, including supporting new categories, lab dip tracking, sample organization, and presentations.
Maintain design tools, including updating boards, tracking packages, ordering and organizing supplies, updating Tech Pack/PLM, and creating seasonal color cards.
Maintain our print library.
Help to refine and maintain our design product guidelines.
We're looking for someone who brings
3+ years of experience in fashion or home textile design.
Home goods experience is preferred.
A bachelor’s degree in textile design or a related field is preferred.
Ability to create original designs and create designs from inspiration.
Proficient in Adobe Suite.
A strong portfolio of work.
Strong organizational skills.
Proficiency in Google Suite applications and print software is a plus.
Proactive and adaptable, with the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
A storyteller with the ability to communicate design/color ideas.
Compensation & Benefits
At Brooklinen, our goal is to offer a competitive total compensation package which we determine based on specific market data taking into account our company size, stage, industry, and location. The base salary range for this role is between $70K - $85K.
Beyond base salary, we contribute significantly to offset the cost of health benefits, provide a financial stipend through Carrot Fertility to help with the costs associated with the fertility journey, offer a 401K with a 4% Safe Harbour match, have commuter benefits, and also provide a yearly product allowance.
We have 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents, year-long Summer Fridays, a workday that starts at 10 am, four weeks of vacation, and a one-month paid sabbatical at your 5th anniversary.
Most importantly of all, our HQ hires receive competitive equity grants. We would be happy to tell you more about this and how to value this part of compensation during our interview process.
Why join us?
Our team is made up of friendly, funny, welcoming, low-ego, and passionate people -- who also happen to be great at what they do. We all know the people you work with can make or break a job and so we go to great lengths to protect this amazing culture.
We work hard but are well-rounded and well-rested. Hanging with coworkers is encouraged. So is taking a vacation, getting a great night's sleep (our day starts at 10 am), and getting out of here at a reasonable time (we have year-long summer Fridays that end at 3 pm).
Care about growth? So do we. We’re growing, so we’ve got tons of exciting growth opportunities for our amazingly talented team.
Hybrid work - our HQ team has 2 days in and 3 days remote schedule.
And don’t just take our word for it! We’re honored to be recognized by various industry tastemakers for the work we’ve put into our culture and employee engagement, including accolades from LinkedIn Top Startups (in 2020 and 2021!), Inc.’s Best Workplaces and Forbes Best Startup Employers in America (in 2022, 2023, and 2024!).
Everyone is welcome at Brooklinen. We’re passionate about building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and creating an environment where our differences are celebrated. We invite you to take a look at how we’ve done so far and where we know we need to do better.
About Brooklinen
Brooklinen, home of The Internet’s Favorite Sheets, was founded in 2014 with one goal in mind: We want you to be comfortable.
We believe everyone deserves beautiful home essentials, and our approach to provide these is simple: Create high-quality products using the finest materials – from bedding to towels and everything in between – and offer these products directly to our customers (without the luxury markup!). As we’ve expanded beyond the bedroom, introducing bath goods, accessories, loungewear, our Spaces marketplace and IRL retail stores, our goal of keeping you comfortable has remained at the forefront.
We take pride in our products and think you will, too: Our sheets, towels and more have received 100,000+ 5-star reviews and been recognized by numerous industry tastemakers such as Apartment Therapy, Good Housekeeping, The New York Times’ Wirecutter and many more.
Our Interview Process
Initial Interview:
Recruiter
First Round:
Design Director
Director of Recruiting
Second Round:
Take-Home Project
Senior Color Designer
Final Round:
Chief Merchandising Officer
Note for recruiting agencies: We oversee our hiring internally, and kindly ask that recruitment agencies refrain from sending us unsolicited resumes unless we have a pre-existing agreement for a particular role. We’re excited about welcoming all applicants who are interested in joining our team to apply directly.
