Art Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with Design Directors to establish, enhance, and uphold Comfrt's visual identity across various product categories.

• Produce unique graphics, artwork, branding systems, prints, patterns, typography, and seasonal visual concepts for apparel, home goods, accessories, packaging, and future lifestyle products.

• Direct seasonal graphic narratives and cohesive visual languages throughout collections.

• Create branding, logos, artwork, and creative assets for collaborations, licensed collections, and co-branded initiatives.

• Develop graphics for logo, licensed, non-logo, placement, repeat, novelty, and specialty apparel categories.

• Design packaging, trims, labels, hangtags, and other branded customer interaction points.

• Work in tandem with Product Design, Production, Marketing, Brand, and Creative teams from the initial concept stage through to final production.

• Investigate emerging fashion, graphic, cultural, home, art, and lifestyle trends through research and social listening.

• Maintain a deep understanding of Comfrt customers, brand positioning, and market dynamics to create a recognizable visual perspective.

• Generate artwork for diverse materials, fabrication techniques, and product categories.

• Collaborate with factories and cross-functional teams on artwork direction, print quality, scale, placement, and application methods.

• Engage with vendors, review strike-offs, and provide prompt feedback.

• Organize digital artwork libraries, seasonal assets, and brand graphic archives systematically.

• Present creative concepts, seasonal strategies, and graphic narratives to cross-functional partners and senior leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Illustration, Fine Arts, or a related discipline—or equivalent experience.

• Over 10 years of experience in graphic design, art direction, apparel graphics, or brand design, preferably within apparel, lifestyle, home, or consumer brands.

• Expert level proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

• Strong visual sensibility regarding color, composition, typography, layout, and concept development.

• Exceptional taste and ability to sustain a consistent visual brand aesthetic across multiple product categories.

• In-depth knowledge of graphic, print, embroidery, appliqué, embellishment, wash, dye, and specialty application techniques related to apparel and home products.

• Experience in developing branding systems, seasonal graphic languages, and visual storytelling across collections.

• Proven experience in creating graphics, branding, and artwork for collaborations, licensed products, and co-branded partnerships.

• Familiarity with factory production capabilities and application techniques.

• Versatile artistic range encompassing expressive illustrations, all-over prints, logos, typography, and minimal graphics.

• Highly organized with meticulous attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines.

• Capacity to work independently and excel in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial atmosphere.

• Strong presentation, communication, and creative storytelling abilities.

• Collaborative mindset in cross-functional product development.

• Portfolio required, demonstrating apparel graphics, branding, typography, print and pattern development, packaging, collaboration projects, and concept development.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off.

• Company-paid health insurance.

• 5% 401k matching.

• Discounts on all Comfrt products.

• Fully remote work setting.

• Supportive and creative environment where ideas and growth are encouraged.