Textile and Art Designer (Full time Only)

Juslink is looking for a full-time Textile Designer: with amazing hand drawing skills, make trend-leading prints to be used on home fashion in AUSTRA

About us

Juslink is a leading home-textile wholesaler and supplier to the Australian and International markets (USA, UK and Europe) for the past 30 years.  Chances are high you are already sleeping under our sheets and doona covers! At Juslink, we believe in empowering you to do your best. You will have a lot of autonomy to achieve the key performance outcomes for our customers. Our company’s mission is to design and distribute branded and unbranded home-textile products that makes our customer’s life better, at globally competitive quality and prices, and providing most customer-centric service, and provide a learning and self-growth environment for staff.

Qualifications & experiences

• A degree in fashion/textile design or similar

• Excellent hand painting and hand drawing skills required

• High level of technical skills and extensive experience using Illustrator and Photoshop

• The ability to follow design briefs and work to deadlines

• The ability to create artwork in repeat

• Have an eye for colour and pattern and strong attention to detail

• Good communication skills and past experience working directly with customers (very important)

Tasks & responsibilities

• Designing home textiles (all soft furnishing within the home) artwork for print, jacquard and embroidery

• This position will require substantial amount of hand-drawn, hand painted designs

• This position requires you to work full time from our office as there are many hands on work required such as sample review, fabric design and evaluation, printing artworks, and collaboration with other designers and other team members

• Researching trends (WGSN, Overseas travels and etc) and ideas and staying up to date with design trends

• Be involved in the creation of seasonal trendboards and interpretation of major retail brand’s inhouse trendboards

• Putting together sampling, and production specifications for production teams located globally for artwork, strike offs and sampling

• Working working both internal sales/design teams, as well as working with external customer’s buying and product teams on home textile product design and development

• Some travelling opportunities – interstate to meet clients and understand clients design briefs and presentations, and overseas for production facility visits and/or overseas market research

Benefits

• Opportunity to be exposed to the cutting edge of global home fashion, and not only Australia but global

• Weekly/fornightly art/painting workshop training

• Opportunity to work with the household name retailers’ product team and buying team

• Overseas travels for work, trade shows and trend shopping

• Mentoring by technical team

• Flexible work place

• On-site parking and staff pricing for merchandise

• Immediate start for the right candidate that ticks boxes

Full time in office only

Our designers work full time in the office studio, because this job requires on-site product development, touching feeling and looking at new fabrics and samples.

Please do not apply if you wish to work part time, or off-site.

Hand drawing experiences are a must!

Excellent hand painting and hand drawing skills required

Employer questions

• Have you completed a qualification in fashion design?
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• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?
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• How many years’ experience do you have as a Textile Designer?
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• What’s your preferred work type?
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