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CARO HOME | Lead Design Manager - Home Textiles | Stamford, CT | July 2023 - May 2025
• Lead designer managing a team of direct reports across multiple home textile product categories.
• Designed bedding, bath towel, kitchen towel, & accessory programs purchased by major retailers including Costco, Kohl's, HomeGoods, BJ's, Target, and Macy's.
• Pioneered Caro Home’s bedding development program, expanding the company’s focus beyond bath & kitchen towels.
• Collaborated with overseas factories in China, Pakistan, India, & Turkey to develop & manufacture home textile products.
• Successfully designed and launched Caro Home’s first quilt collection for Costco US (Spring 2025), kitchen towel programs for Costco US (Holiday 2023 & 2024) & Costco UK (Spring 2025) and a sheet set collection for Costco Mexico (Spring 2025).
• Designed and introduced all-new fashion bath ensembles and kitchen towel collections for Kohl’s, launching January 2024.
• Created original designs for Target’s private label bath and beach towel brands.
• Developed and sold an innovative 18-piece dorm kit to HomeGoods, including a comforter, sheets, towels, laundry bag, shower caddy, storage items, and more. Additionally, I designed all packaging and marketing materials for this program.
POTTERY BARN KIDS | Head Design Manager of Product Development - Textiles |
San Francisco, CA | June 2021 - June 2023
• Managed all elements of product development in Pottery Barn Kids’ textile &decorative accessory departments, including all kids’ home textiles, gifting, toys, & other decorative accessories, from initial concept through final design approval of top of production programs.
• Led a team of designers, sample & license coordinators, and color managers to ensure every process in the product development life cycle was executed effectively & to completion.
Connecticut College
Bachelor of Arts in both Studio Art & American Studies New London, CT · 2011
SKILLS:
• People manager & mentor
• Leadership & Team Building
• Product Development Management
• Project Management
• Hardline and Softline Home Product Design & Development
• Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop & InDesign
• Research Oriented Design & Development
• Technical Textile & Industrial Design
• Materials, Fabrication & Sourcing
• Illustration
• Color, Form & Composition
• Home, Textile, Gift & Paper Products
• Trend forecasting & market research
• Licensing & packaging design
• As a manager, worked closely with my individual team members and their development, onboarding several new hires, & getting my team members to achieve their personal goals & get promoted.
• Worked closely with the brand’s licensors including Disney, Star Wars, Lego, Hello Kitty, Peanuts, & Marvel among others.
• Guided design & development across home textiles and hardlines to align with brand strategies, cost targets and market trends, always representing the Pottery Barn Kids ethos & core brand values.
• Collaborated closely with cross functional teams such as merchandising, sourcing, & quality control, building strong partnerships and aligning across teams on design & goals for products.
• With my strong background in design, I intiated all new & innovative fabric development to meet the needs of our designers, while bringing innovation & cost savings to new programs.
• Worked very closely with overseas vendors to determine best sampling and production practices, with a focus on maintaining high production standards at a low cost to us.
• Collaborated closely with global product design teams on their unique needs & specifications.
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously – design projects, key meeting presentations, vendor communication & tracking, & career development of my team members.
GIBSON OVERSEAS | Sr. Designer - Home Hardlines | Los Angeles, CA | July 2019 - June 2021
• Created original designs and mechanical spec sheets for tabletop and housewares products utilizing hand-drawn & hand-painted artwork & digital illustrations for Gibson's own brand, TJ Maxx, HomeGoods, Albertson's, Target, Amazon, Big Lots, Bed Bath & Beyond, & others.
• Created licensed artwork and designs for Martha Stewart, John Deere, Peanuts, Tia Mowry, Cravings by Chrissy Teigan, Pioneer Woman, & others.
• Independently created all new, original shapes, artwork, & designs for upcoming hydration line WAO.
JONATHAN ADLER | Product Designer - Brand Partnerships - Textiles & Home Decor | New York, NY | April 2018 - January 2019
• Launched & developed an entirely new line of home & lifestyle products from conception to completion across a diverse variety of textile, furniture, décor & home accessory categories for “Now House” by Jonathan Adler, a new, exclusive partnership between Jonathan Adler & Amazon (Amazon’s first ever exclusive design partnership).
• This process included developing concepts for design collections, selecting & working closely with overseas vendors, design execution, creation of detailed spec sheets, problem solving, & ultimately reviewing, revising & approving final product samples for production under very tight deadlines.
• Upon its launch, Now House was immediately met with fabulous reviews from renowned publications such as Domino Magazine, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest, Town and Country & many others.
BLISS STUDIO | Product Designer - Textiles & Home Decor | Costa Mesa, CA| February 2015 - May 2017
• Created & launched several new, highly successful decorative pillow collections
• Developed & expanded on a variety of product designs both by hand-drawing & digitally drawing; this includes new furniture, accessories, lighting & pillows based on inspiration boards for new collections
• Worked directly & closely with factories overseas to develop new product, ensuring manufacturing accuracy with effective translation of the design-to-product process.
• Photographed product & edited images to use online & in promotional materials.
• Created & maintained various print & digital marketing materials.
For additional work experience please see my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karameyering