Product Designer / Product Developer, Holiday & Seasonal

Regency International is seeking a Product Designer / Product Developer to originate and develop cohesive Holiday and Seasonal decor collections. This role blends trend forecasting, theme and color direction, and hands-on collaboration with overseas vendors from early concept through production.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a current understanding of the Holiday and Gift market, including emerging trends, colors, materials, finishes, motifs, styling, and customer preferences
• Monitor key competitors and evaluate their assortments, new introductions, pricing, merchandising, and creative direction
• Identify early market opportunities and translate them into relevant product and collection plans
• Conduct ongoing market research through retail, trade shows, social media, trend resources, travel, vendor visits, and related sources
• Share insights, inspiration, and new ideas with leadership and the product team to inform seasonal direction and product development
• Participate in collaborative planning with leadership, buying, and sales to help shape seasonal themes and color direction
• Translate trend and competitive insights, business strategy, customer feedback, and sales performance into workable visual and product direction
• Develop color palettes, material stories, and collection concepts based on agreed seasonal direction
• Create visual boards and internal presentations that communicate themes, color direction, materials, and collection concepts
• Consolidate input from multiple stakeholders and convert it into clear, actionable product direction
• Ensure consistency of themes and color stories across product categories
• Design original Holiday and Gift products across categories such as ornaments, florals, stems, tabletop décor, home accents, and other relevant lines
• Generate coordinated collections rather than disconnected items
• Develop original concepts through sketching, drawing, digital design, or other visual development methods
• Select new items from vendor showrooms and adapt them to match company themes and collection direction
• Modify vendor designs to align with company color direction, aesthetic, and brand positioning
• Work directly with vendors on materials, finishes, scale, packaging, and cost targets
• Review samples and revisions and provide clear direction throughout development
• Partner with sourcing and purchasing teams to support manufacturability and margin requirements
• Ensure collections are commercially relevant for wholesale, key accounts, and ecommerce channels
• Travel domestically and internationally to vendors, factories, trade shows, and markets
• Use travel and vendor engagement to identify new capabilities, materials, techniques, product opportunities, and sources of inspiration
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with development partners and suppliers
• Evaluate vendor capabilities and identify ways to expand or improve product development

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design or product development experience specifically within the Holiday or Gift industry
• Strong understanding of the Holiday and Gift market, including trends, competitors, product categories, and customer expectations
• Demonstrated experience researching and interpreting market trends and competitive assortments and translating those insights into successful product collections
• Strong creative and design ability, including an excellent understanding of color, materials, proportion, composition, and trend application
• Experience developing cohesive themed collections (not limited to individual products)
• Ability to translate creative ideas into commercially viable products
• Ability to visually communicate product concepts using sketching, digital design, Adobe Creative Suite, or equivalent tools
• Experience working directly with overseas factories and vendors
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and seasonal deadlines

Technology

• Adobe Creative Suite

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Compensation and Location

Salary: USD 100,000 to 125,000 per year

Location: New York, NY (hybrid remote). Work location: New York, NY 10004