Senior Bags & Accessories Designer

Trove Brands is a privately-held house of brands including BlenderBottle®, Owala®, Whiskware®, and Eco-Brite®. Our patented and best-selling products are designed to simplify and improve everyday life with leading-edge innovation, incomparable quality, and aspirational style.

A career at Trove Brands is not about punching the clock. It’s about embracing exciting and fast-paced opportunities that sharpen your skills, drive innovation, and play an integral role in growing our global reach. Your work will not only impact the company, it will impact the lives of millions of people around the world. When you step up to a career at Trove, you step up to cutting-edge excellence. You sign up for bold action and invigorating synergy. You agree to face—and break through—new challenges every single day. 

Picture Yourself as a Trove Brands Senior Bags and Accessories Designer

When you step into a Senior Designer role at Trove Brands, you step into creative ownership. You bring product strategy to life through designs that resonate with users and reflect brand identity. You agree to face new challenges every day and turn trends, insights, and strategy into beautiful, functional bags and soft accessories.

 

The Senior Designer Role

The Senior Designer is responsible for translating product strategy into innovative, user centered bags and soft accessories designs across one or more product categories. This role brings creative vision to life through trend forecasting, sketching, material selection, and collaboration with cross functional teams.

The Senior Designer partners closely with Product Managers, Brand Managers and Product Development teams to ensure designs are aesthetically compelling, technically feasible, on brand, and commercially viable. This role acts as the creative lead, translating market trends and user insights into designs that guide development from concept through production.

 

How You’ll Make an Impact

Every role at Trove Brands is critical to our success as a whole. Your specific responsibilities as part of the Product team will include:

• Translate product strategy and category roadmaps into compelling seasonal bags & soft accessories collections
• Conduct trend and material research for assigned bags & soft accessories categories
• Create original sketches, CADs and design presentations that communicate creative vision
• Create and own technical specifications and tech packs to ensure construction, functionality, and quality standards are met
• Develop seasonal color palettes, print and graphic concepts, and material stories
• Select fabrics, hardware, trims, and embellishments that align with design vision and product requirements
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Brand Managers to ensure designs meet user needs, cost targets, and timeline goals
• Present design concepts to cross functional teams and incorporate feedback
• Maintain design libraries, trend boards, and competitive analysis to inform future seasons
• Work with vendors and suppliers to source innovative materials, hardware and develop custom components
• Attend proto reviews and provide design direction throughout the sample development process
• Stay current on industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging design technologies
• Ensure all designs align with brand identity and long-term portfolio strategy

 

What You’ll Bring to the Team

We seek employees who are comfortable owning ambiguity and turning it into clarity through collaboration and insight. For this role, we are looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design, Accessories Design, Apparel Design, Industrial Design, or equivalent experience
• 5 to 8 years of bags, accessories, or soft goods design experience, preferably in fashion or lifestyle consumer goods
• Strong portfolio demonstrating creative range, trend awareness, and commercial success
• Expert knowledge of bag construction, pattern engineering, and soft goods development processes
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop) and CAD tools
• Experience with 3D design software (e.g., CLO, Browzwear, VStitcher) is a plus
• Deep understanding of fabric properties, hardware specifications, and technical requirements
• Experience collaborating with Product Management, Product Development, Apparel Design and cross functional teams
• Ability to balance creative vision with commercial realities and user needs
• Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions
• Experience working with overseas vendors and managing sample development
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally for vendor partnerships, trend research, and industry events
• Knowledge of PLM software (e.g., Centric, Flex, NGC) is a plus
• Experience managing or mentoring junior designers is a plus
• Passionate about fashion and lifestyle bags, accessories, innovation, and delivering meaningful consumer experiences

 

How We’ll Help You Succeed

Our culture is passionate, entrepreneurial, and energetic. We value innovation through collaboration. And while we work smart and hard, we also connect and celebrate with equal gusto. We host team-building activities, athletic events, and seasonal celebrations to foster community and reward accomplishments. Bottom line? You’ll love it here.

Among the many benefits our team members enjoy are:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care
• 401k package with employer matching
• Paid Time Off
• Maternity/Paternity leave
• Full indoor basketball/volleyball court
• Fully equipped fitness center (cardio, weights, functional fitness area, lockers and showers, etc.)
• Yoga studio
• Meditation/Nap room
• And much more!

Trove Brands is an equal opportunity employer.

Phone calls regarding this position are not accepted.

This is a fully in-office position at our HQ in Lehi, Utah.