AddressJoin the team at The Oodie, an Australian owned company, dedicated to bringing comfort and happiness to all of our customers. This is a maternity leave contract.
Our team is made up of creative and enthusiastic individuals who are committed to making a difference. We offer a supportive and collaborative work environment where your ideas are valued, and your contributions are appreciated. If you are passionate about delivering comfort to others and enjoy working in a fast-paced and exciting environment, then this could be the role for you.
Our Vision - for The Oodie to be the ultimate global destination for exceptional product, elevating everyday moments and making everyone feel comfortable everywhere!
Our Textiles & Graphic Designer drives and executes trend-focused development for The Oodie.
The role is divided in to four key elements - Graphic Design, Product Development, Licensing and Quality.
Graphic Design:
- Provide artistic print, graphic concepts & innovation to the team and collaborate on product direction
- Build innovative ranges and print direction alongside the Product Manager, including licensed product.
- Growth mindset, provide researched support to all new concepts and product innovation.
- Research trends & competitors.
- Design on brand commercial artwork across product and packaging.
- Create placement prints and yardage pattern repeats
- Through drawing and design support product development from research and ideation through to production.
- Create clear and standardized artwork specifications for suppliers.
- Strong communication skills to be able to translate ideas and print requirements to suppliers and follow up with comments and feedback.
- Experiment with new technology and new industry trends to further benefit the team.
- Put together creative briefs for freelance designers, communicating ideas and provide feedback to get art to sign off stage.
Product Development:
- Reviewing all strike off submissions to factories
- Update the stakeholders with artwork submissions and approvals throughout the development process.
- Responsible for managing strict critical dates ensuring timelines are met and considered throughout development stage and decision-making process.
Licensing:
- Oversee license design development, relationship and account management in collaboration with the Product Manager.
- Access License portals so source brand relevant content.
- Support the License approval process linking Product, Creative & Licensors
- Develop packaging and labelling and ensure product suitability and relevance.
Quality:
- Instill high level of quality standards and procedures amongst team and supply base.
- Oversee print execution ensuring Oodie standards are met and maintained throughout the development and sampling stages.
- Risk assessment on all new products ahead of production.
Working at the Oodie:
- We live and breathe our values of Owning our Business, Giving a sh*t, Doing Cool Things That Make our Customers Happy, Opening the door for Others, and Saying how it is, respectfully
- We work as one close knit team
- We are hybrid working, with our favourite day being our Oodie Day in office, our product team need to be in the office for samples arriving and strike offs, but we aim to offer as much flexibility as possible
- Our offices are fun, open plan and interactive
- We have birthday leave, a lot of team get togethers, learning & development opportunities
and of course - Davies Dreamball (a chance to win a spot prize $$) - Discounts on The Oodie products
- We are Great Place to Work certified!
