Sr Manager Product Development

Jonathan Louis International•Los Angeles, CA

16h

About The Position

Jonathan Louis is a California-based furniture manufacturer focused on designing and building quality home furniture that provides value and reflects today’s lifestyle. The Senior Manager, Textile & Product Merchandising role curates fabric stories, styled vignettes, and cover-to-frame combinations for trade shows, custom programs for top 100 industry accounts, and OEM development with lifestyle brand partners. The position translates emerging trends in color, pattern, and texture into market-ready furniture collections in collaboration with retail buyers, product designers, engineers, and mills. The role also manages fabric assortment and vendor relationships, leads merchandising and styling for markets and marketing materials, uses sales data and trend research to guide seasonal assortment decisions, and supports product quality, development calendars, launches, and team development. The position requires travel to markets, textile trade shows, and inspiration trips.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in textile design, interior design, fashion merchandising, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 6 years of experience in product design/development or interior design, including management experience.
Upholstery or soft goods category management experience, ideally in home furnishings.
A strong portfolio of furniture and home work demonstrating the ability to turn trend research into market-ready collections.
Exceptional eye for color, pattern, scale, and texture.
Solid knowledge of furniture styles, upholstery construction, materials, and the home furnishings marketplace.
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, CAD, or similar programs.
Strong project management, presentation, and communication skills, plus experience mentoring a team.
Ability to travel to trade shows, markets, and international events.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual English/Spanish.

Responsibilities

Curate trend-driven cover-to-frame combinations and styling for trade shows, top 100 account programs, and OEM partners.
Build a well-rounded fabric assortment, manage key mill and vendor relationships, and source new fabrics.
Partner with in-house and freelance designers, prototype, production, and marketing teams to take collections from concept to showroom floor.
Lead merchandising and styling for Market, retailer events, design summits, marketing photography, and catalogs.
Use sales data in seasonal line reviews and quarterly trend reports to recommend fabrics to add, keep, or drop.
Create mood boards, fabric stories, and product training for the sales team and retail partners.
Work with Quality Control to approve master fabric swatches and improve product quality.
Drive development calendars and launch timelines and lead cover-to-frame meetings.
Mentor junior product development team members.
Travel to Market, the Interwoven Textile Trade Show, and inspiration trips to stay current with trends and competitors.