Senior Surface Pattern & Print Designer

Join Punch Studio, where creativity knows no bounds! We're a vibrant home, gift and stationery product supplier, creating beautifully designed products that bring delight to everyday life. Based in sunny Culver City, CA, we're looking for an experienced designer to help lead our talented, passionate team.

Your Role:As our Senior Surface Pattern & Print Designer, you'll have the exciting opportunity to shape the look of our collections, bringing fresh, trend-forward patterns, prints and illustrations to life across our full home, gift and stationery assortment.

Working hand-in-hand with our Creative Director and Art Directors, you'll take on our most exciting projects, help set the creative direction for key accounts, and mentor a team of talented designers along the way. You'll collaborate with Sales, Product Development and Production to see your designs go from sketch to shelf.

This is a hybrid role based in our Culver City studio, with Monday and Friday as optional work-from-home days. What You'll Do:Leads the most complex surface pattern and print projects, designing original patterns, prints and illustrations digitally or by hand

Partners with the CD, ADs and LDs to build collections that shape direction for key accounts and custom business

Researches trends in color, motif and print and translates them into original, commercially viable artwork

Develops seamless repeats, engineered layouts, placement prints, coordinates and colorways with a strong command of scale, composition and color

Presents sketches and concepts for CD/AD/LD review before finalizing designs

Expands artwork into cohesive collections and adapts it across products and piece types on deadline

Delivers production-ready files, with repeats, resolution, color and embellishment layers (foil, emboss, glitter) accounted for

Maintains in-depth knowledge of assigned accounts, programs and buyers

Provides art direction and creates line plans, mood boards and presentations for account programs, as training toward