The role

The Collab Designer & Developer drives the creative and technical execution of Db’s collaboration and partnership products. This role translates Senior Designer input into commercially viable, technically sound, and on-brand products. Working from brief through production approval, the position combines approx. 30% hands-on design (under the lead of a Senior Designer) and 70% detailed development work (including structured workflow management). It plays a key part in ensuring collab products meet quality, aesthetic, functional, and margin requirements while maintaining clear documentation and reliable cross-functional alignment.

Work tasks

Collab Projects

• Design and develop collab products from brief to customer handover.
• Create logo placement concepts, visual mockups, and embellishment files for customer approval and vendor execution.
• Develop sketches, BOMs, and complete instructions for vendors.
• Ensure alignment with partner feedback, design standards, and commercial requirements.
• Business travel to factories and collab partners.

Design Execution

• Produce sketches and color-ups.
• Collaborate with Senior Designers to ensure quality of design expression and brand consistency.
• Prepare clear and visually compelling materials for internal and partner presentations.

Technical & Development Support

• Work with Product Developers to validate construction feasibility, durability, and supplier execution.
• Lead sample reviews and integrate feedback into design updates and PLM documentation.

Inline Design Support

• Maintain sketches, color-ups, and other design updates for inline styles when required, under Senior Designers’ guidance.
• Populate PLM with sketch and BOM updates.
• Contribute to smaller or ad-hoc design tasks depending on seasonal needs.

Key competences

• Strong sketching and visualization skills (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop preferred).
• Understanding of packs & bags construction, materials, and manufacturing constraints.
• Ability to balance creative direction with commercial and technical feasibility.
• Proficiency in PLM (Centric preferred) and structured documentation workflows.

Qualifications & Experience

• 1-3 years of design & development experience in bags, luggage, accessories, or technical apparel.
• Experience designing products from concept to pre-production.
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Experience in 3D (e.g. CLO, Browzwear) is a plus.
• Experience preparing tech packs including vendor instructions.
• PLM experience (Centric preferred) and familiarity with vendor-facing design workflows.

Personal attributes

• Creative, detail-oriented, and highly organized.
• Strong communicator and collaborator.
• Able to work reliably across multiple styles and deadlines.
• Adaptable to partner needs and shifting priorities, and short-term requests.
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and committed to high-quality execution.

Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Do you want to join our team as our new Collab Designer & Developer?

Then we'd love to hear about you!