Infant Blanket & Textile Designer
5 days ago
Manhattan
Infant Blanket & Textile Designer Position Type: Full-time or Freelance Hourly Range: $35 – 50 hourly Department: Soft Home / Pillows ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Enchante is seeking a talented Infant Blanket & Textile Designer to support the development of our growing infant blanket and nursery category. The ideal candidate will have experience in textile design, surface pattern design, graphic design, or soft-home product development, with a strong understanding of baby and nursery trends, color, print, and commercial retail design. Please submit a resume and portfolio showcasing relevant textile, surface pattern, infant, nursery, bedding, or soft-home design work. • Develop original artwork and patterns for infant blankets, bedding, throws, and related nursery products, • Create seamless repeats, placement prints, character artwork, and coordinating patterns, • Develop seasonal and everyday collections based on current market and retail trends, • Create colorways, CADs, and product mockups for internal review and buyer presentations, • Translate creative direction and inspiration into commercially viable products, • Prepare production-ready artwork and technical files for factories, • Make revisions to artwork, color, scale, and layout based on internal, buyer, and factory feedback, • Research trends in baby, nursery, home textiles, color, print, and pattern, • Work closely with product development, sourcing, sales, and merchandising teams, • Perform related duties as assigned COMPETENCIES • Experience designing for mass retail, department stores, off-price, specialty retail, or private-label programs is a plus, • Experience preparing artwork for textile production is a plus, • Knowledge of infant and nursery market trends is a plus, • Experience communicating with overseas factories or product development teams, • Experience in textile design, surface pattern design, graphic design, or related product design, • Portfolio demonstrating relevant work in baby, infant, nursery, bedding, blankets, soft home, or children's products, • Strong understanding of pattern repeats, color, print, and textile applications, • Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, • Ability to create professional CADs and presentation-ready product mockups, • Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects and revisions, • Ability to balance creativity with commercial retail needs EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Bachelor’s degree in Textile Design, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, or a related field, with 5+ years of experience in textile, print, pattern, or fashion design.