Manager - Design Trend Forecasting
About Ruggable:
Ruggable is a Los Angeles-based, venture-backed, rapidly growing e-commerce startup that is disrupting the $7B rug industry and revolutionizing the market for residential rugs. Our patented 2-Piece Rug System allows you to remove the top layer of your rug and wash it in your home washing machine, offering an affordable, stylish and convenient solution for young families, pet owners, and busy individuals. We're a small, entrepreneurial team with big ambitions. We have a strong brand, established traction, and amazing advisors fueling our steady growth. This is an opportunity to get in at the ground floor and solve for complex challenges, while charting your own career.
The Design Team:
The Design Team at Ruggable is a dynamic and collaborative team of artists and designers working across multiple substrates and platforms to create beautiful and trend-forward products that elevate the home interior. Through research, an understanding of consumer habits, and the online and retail landscape, we learn fast to adapt to the latest trends and keep our designs unique, relevant and aspirational. We are artists who believe in the power of beautiful and thoughtful design.
Job Summary:
Bring your passion for Interior Design and Trend Forecasting together to shepherd quantitative and qualitative data to the Ruggable Design Team. As a Design Trend Forecaster you will bring your prior Fashion and/or Interior Design experience to help bolster our Trend Forecasting efforts through data analysis of currently available resources including industry perspectives and competitor scraping. Reporting to the Senior Director of Art & Design, you will be responsible for archiving and organizing captured data, creating and interpreting Interior Design trend reports and the creation of mood boards for any given collection ensuring cohesion of thought/aesthetic across all design projects. You will work closely with the Product Data & Analytics team to drive efforts as they relate to customer surveys and the capture of other quantitative and qualitative data points.
What You’ll Do:
- Create a historical database of images that is user friendly and easily searchable
- Produce and provide analytics for all things related to collections and trend forecasting Conduct competitor scraping and analysis
- Interpret feedback from customer surveys
- Create and present mood and trend boards
- Stand up and lead a small dedicated team
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
What You’ll Need to Have:
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field
- 3+ years experience as an Interior Designer or Stylist
- A portfolio of mood/trend boards and interior/design projects
- A proven track record of spotting trends in either fashion or interior design
- Strong organization skills especially as it relates to data and data management Effective verbal and written communication skills to convey design ideas
- A proven ability to create and present successful mood and trend boards
- An eye for elevated design and decor aesthetics
- A go-getter attitude and the ability to work with a team in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with many moving parts
- Excellent problem solving skills, attention to detail and motivation to learn
Preferred:
- Previous experience as a Trend Forecaster for known firms
- A strong background in analytics both qualitative and quantitative
- Previous experience working for start-ups
At Ruggable, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Ruggable is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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