Senior Product Designer, Eyewear
Design Observer · Los Angeles, CA · 4 days ago
Art & Creative$85k–$110k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Own the eyewear design process from initial concept through production-ready design.
- Communicate with factories and production partners to ensure design intent, fit, construction, materials, hardware, and sample revisions are clearly understood.
- Keep the product development process organized, including design files, references, sample comments, revision history, timelines, and factory feedback.
- Work directly with the founder to translate brand direction, references, and product goals into original sunglasses and optical frame designs.
- Support packaging, accessories, and other product-related creative projects as needed, while keeping eyewear design as the primary focus.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in eyewear design, product design, accessories design, industrial design, or a closely related field.
- Strong understanding of eyewear design, including frame construction, fit, proportion, materials, hardware, and production feasibility.
- Ability to develop sunglasses and optical frames from concept through production-ready design.
- Strong sketching ability and ability to quickly explore multiple design directions.
- Experience communicating design revisions to factories, vendors, or production partners.
- Strong organization skills across design files, references, samples, revisions, timelines, and feedback.
- Strong taste, research habits, and ability to translate references into original product ideas.
- Resourceful and research-driven, with the ability to dig beyond obvious references and bring back useful insights, visual direction, product ideas, and practical solutions.
- Ability to work closely with a founder-led creative process.
- Comfortable working in a small team environment and willing to support across eyewear design, product development, research, production, and broader creative projects as needed.