Eyewear Designer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design & Development: Create and develop new eyewear concepts, including frame bodies, colorways, and materials, that align with KREWE’s creative vision.
• Technical Drawings: Produce and revise CADs and technical specifications for prototypes and production, ensuring design accuracy and manufacturability.
• Collaboration: Partner with Planning and Product teams to align new designs with sales and assortment strategies, ensuring a balance of creativity and commercial impact.
• Creative Alignment: Maintain close collaboration with the Creative Director and Design team through check points, design trend review, TD and construction review, and collection review, to ensure creative consistency, intuitive communication, and Creative Director approval throughout design iterations.
• Studio & Workflow Support: Work with the Design Studio team to maintain libraries, tech packs, color samples, and digital assets.
• Project Ownership: Take initiative within assigned product segments including developing samples, coordinating with overseas manufacturers, and reviewing prototypes, to manage concepts through development and costing with entrepreneurial ownership.
• Presentation & Feedback: Prepare design reviews and contribute to design meetings with leadership, providing rationale and responding to feedback constructively.

Requirements:

• 2–5 years of experience in sun and optical design is required.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and CAD design software.
• Understanding of eyewear materials, fit, and production methods.
• Strong visual sensibility and brand awareness with a demonstrated ability to translate vision into detailed design.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to work fluidly with creative, planning, and production counterparts.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to take ownership of projects from concept to delivery.
• Highly organized and proactive in creating and maintaining processes and systems.
• Result driven, detail oriented individual, with an ability to work independently in a high-performance environment.
• Focus on delivering individual goals that ladder up to overall company goals.

Benefits and Perks:

• Competitive wage
• Group health plans: health, vision and dental insurance
• Welfare benefits: life, ad&d, supplemental voluntary coverage 
• FSA Plan & HSA Program 
• 401(K) Investment Options
• Adoption Assistance, EAP, Commuter Benefits
• Paid Parental Leave 
• Quarterly Cultural Spend
• Ongoing Training and Development, an Educational Allowance
• 10 paid holidays and Paid Time Off accrual
• KREWE employee quarterly frame allowance (of course!)

Diversity and Inclusion: 

KREWE believes in providing an inclusive workplace where all individuals have the opportunity to succeed. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without discrimination or retaliation because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, pregnancy or any other protected characteristic as established by applicable local, state, or federal law.