What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Coordinator, Hardware/Kitchen & Bath - Rejuvenation position at Pottery Barn?
About the Product Development Team
The Rejuvenation design team consists of highly creative, collaborative, and technical thinkers. As part of the design team, you will bring your design and organizational skills to the table to support the Hardware and Kitchen & Bath team to bring high quality designs to market.
Overview of the Design Coordinator
In this role, you will support the design team from concept to launch. You will manage project trackers for developments across multiple seasons, collaborate with cross functional partners to provide status updates for development samples, assembly of incoming samples, installation of samples for review, record notes for milestone presentations, and additional responsibilities associated with our quarterly launch cadence. As a key player for Hardware and Kitchen & Bath, the Design Coordinator will partner with the Design Supervisor for Hardware and Kitchen & Bath to maintain an organized process for maintaining a streamlined system for product development each quarter.
Responsibilities
- Provide updates within development trackers for Hardware and Kitchen & Bath via Airtable.
- Track shipment of incoming and outgoing samples each quarter.
- Assemble and install incoming samples for review. Products include cabinet hardware, wall shelving, hook racks, bath hardware, medicine cabinets, and more.
- Record organized notes for weekly product development meetings, weekly product reviews with leadership, and quarterly milestone presentations.
- Prepare for presentations including staging product, plotting designs, and preparing files for 3D print.
- Create technical specs for production, ensuring product standards and design intent are communicated to overseas vendors.
- Create comment sheets for samples, providing constructive feedback to overseas vendors.
- Manage sample library for cabinet hardware and bath hardware by maintaining organized storage solutions for incoming product and scheduling dedicated time to review samples.
- Transport materials, equipment, and lift, move, and carry objects up to 50 pounds on a limited basis.
- Follow the company’s sustainability goals by allocating packaging and shipping materials to the correct disposal location (plastic and paper recycling, sample sale, secondhand donations, landfill,
- Support design team with technical specs for line extensions of existing collections (size expansions, finish expansions, and SKU expansions).
- Collaborate with head merchants and designers to gather samples for quarterly omni-channel walkthroughs with the leadership team.
- Support design with email communication between in-house design team and overseas offices to ensure design intent is communicated to vendors.
- Participate in virtual and in-person vendor meetings to ensure designs and sampling are being produced on time.
Criteria
Our Mission Around Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We firmly believe that working in a culture focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion spurs innovation, creates healthy and high-performing teams, and delivers superior customer experiences. We will create and nurture a global company culture where we confidently bring our authentic selves to work every day : where the only criteria for advancement are the quality of our work, the contributions we make to our teams and the business, and our ability to lead; and where our individual differences—whatever they may be—are valued, explored and appreciated.
Benefits Just for You
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Your Journey in Continued Learning
WSI will not commence an immigration case or "sponsor" an individual for this position at this time (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration).
This role is not eligible for relocation assistance.
