Product Designer

Role Overview

This role supports Travelpro’s evolution into a more design-led, consumer-centric, and fashion-conscious brand. The Product Designer, Travel & Handbags is responsible for creating travel bags, handbags, backpacks, and other soft goods that seamlessly blend style, functionality, quality, and innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the creative design and aesthetic direction of soft goods product lines, ensuring alignment with brand vision, consumer insights, and seasonal product briefs.
• Design innovative travel products and accessories with a strong focus on fashion, materials, color, silhouette, usability, and elevated consumer appeal.
• Demonstrate a highly developed eye for materials, finishes, trims, hardware, and detailing to create premium, fashion-forward products that align with brand positioning.
• Leverage deep knowledge of textiles, fabric constructions, material applications, and finishing techniques to inform design decisions and enhance product quality, performance, and aesthetic appeal.
• Create detailed product specifications, tech packs, material callouts, and development documentation for manufacturing partners.
• Partner closely with Product Development to understand consumer needs and meaningfully integrate them into design.
• Lead the selection and management of color, material, trim, and hardware samples, ensuring consistency with seasonal design direction and product storytelling.
• Communicate and coordinate material development with sourcing teams to bring products from concept through commercialization.
• Evaluate prototypes and production samples, providing clear feedback and revisions to manufacturing partners to ensure quality, fit, finish, functionality, and design integrity.
• Research market trends, consumer behaviors, fashion influences, emerging materials, and innovative fabrication techniques to inspire forward-thinking product concepts and category innovation.
• Drive product excellence by proactively identifying opportunities to improve quality, functionality, cost efficiency, material execution, and overall consumer experience.
• Manage development timelines and sample tracking to ensure on-time delivery against key milestones and presentation deadlines.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to maintain consistency across product collections, branding, and storytelling initiatives.

What It Takes

• 3-5 years of experience in product design, soft goods, accessories, fashion, or related consumer product categories.
• Strong background in designing aesthetically driven consumer products with an emphasis on soft goods, bags, travel accessories, or lifestyle products.
• Experience working within consumer brands, retail, DTC, or fashion-driven product organizations.
• Proven success balancing creative design vision with technical product execution and commercialization requirements.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with merchandising, sourcing, development, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
• 3+ years mentoring or guiding designers and contributing to collaborative creative team environments.

Capabilities

• Excellent visual communication, sketching, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• Strong design aesthetic with a passion for consumer products, fashion trends, color, materials, and storytelling.
• Ability to translate consumer insights and market trends into commercially successful product concepts.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Technical understanding of soft goods construction, manufacturing processes, materials, and product development workflows.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to balance creativity, functionality, quality, and cost considerations.
• Adaptability and agility in evolving business environments and shifting priorities.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to build strong partnerships across teams and external vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Product Design, Accessories Design, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Vizcom.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and product rendering or 3D visualization tools preferred.
• Knowledge of soft goods construction, paper patterns, sewing techniques, and materials including leather, faux leather, nylon, polyester, and foam applications.
• Familiarity with manufacturing processes and development workflows for consumer products and travel goods.
• Experience creating detailed tech packs and managing product development from concept through commercialization.
• Strong understanding of consumer product terminology, fit and finish expectations, and product quality standards.

Working Environment

A hybrid office environment 4 days office/ 1 day remote with hands-on interaction with physical products. Occasional travel for vendor development, market research, and inspiration.

What We Offer

• A Culture Built for Growth: We believe in collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. We move fast, support one another, and challenge ourselves to keep evolving.
• Flexibility & Wellbeing: Flexible Time Away, company-paid holidays, and hybrid work flexibility.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Accounts, and wellness programs.
• Invest in Your Future: 401(k) company match.
• Community & Connection: Employee-led engagement initiatives focused on wellbeing, collaboration, and creating a workplace where everyone belongs.

About Travelpro®

Travelpro® was founded by airline pilot Bob Plath, whose firsthand travel experience inspired the invention of the original Rollaboard® suitcase — changing modern travel forever. Today, we are building on that legacy as we evolve into a modern mobility and travel lifestyle brand designed for today’s global traveler. Our products combine aviation-level performance with elevated design, helping ambitious people move confidently through every journey.

Travelpro®

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