Designer

Company Overview

MacKenzie-Childs is a leading home furnishings retail company known for its unique design, high‑quality products and exceptional customer service. We specialize in offering a wide range of kitchen, entertaining, decor and furniture items that cater to various styles and preferences, ensuring our customers find exactly what they need to make their homes joyful and stylish.

Position Summary

MacKenzie‑Childs is seeking a Product Designer who brings together creative thinking, commercial awareness, and technical expertise to lead the development of products across the Kitchen, Dining, and Entertaining categories. This role applies creativity, design expertise, and product development capabilities to create products with strong brand relevance, commercial potential, and market appeal, while balancing brand aesthetics, consumer needs, and business objectives. The designer will identify market opportunities, shape compelling design directions through market research, consumer insights, competitive analysis, forecasting, and data‑informed design, and clearly communicate design intent through persuasive presentations.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize and design innovative products based on design briefs, brand strategy, market research, and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Design and develop products across the Kitchen, Dining, and Entertaining categories, including artwork, prototypes, and all phases of the product development process.
• Incorporate signature patterns, textures, and design elements while balancing innovation, functionality, brand identity, and commercial viability.
• Develop product concepts using digital design tools and communicate ideas through hand sketches when appropriate.
• Prepare Manufacturing Development Packages (MDPs), product specifications, product instructions, and other development documentation.
• Partner closely with Product Development, Production, Quality, vendors, and agents to ensure design intent is accurately executed throughout sampling, product approval, and manufacturing.
• Independently plan, prioritize, and manage multiple projects while meeting design & development timelines and key milestones.
• Coordinate samples or working models, participate in factory sampling, product evaluations, training sessions, and design critiques.
• Continuously expand knowledge of materials, manufacturing processes, product construction, and production techniques, applying that knowledge throughout development.
• Create high‑quality, photorealistic visual assets that support internal communications and presentations.

Qualifications

• Strong creative thinking paired with commercial awareness and technical expertise.
• Ability to conduct market research, consumer insights, competitive analysis, forecasting, and data‑informed design.
• Excellent communication skills; capable of delivering persuasive presentations and influencing team decisions.
• High level of ownership, critical thinking, and problem‑solving ability.
• Confidence in proposing new ideas, willingness to challenge established approaches, and ability to plan and manage work independently.
• Proactive mindset focused on improving product quality, design efficiency, and team impact through process optimization, AI, emerging technologies, and digital tools.
• Commitment to evidence‑based design decisions, collaboration, execution, and continuous improvement.