Brief Description
About the Role
We’re building the ultimate collaboration engine for Gen Alpha — where beauty, accessories, lifestyle, and culture collide. As a Collaborations Designer, you’ll bring iconic partnerships and unexpected brand mashups to life across multiple product categories, creating hype-worthy collections that live far beyond the shelf.
From global IP to emerging digital-first brands, you’ll design products that turn collaborations into cultural moments — blending creativity, storytelling, and commercial impact, powered by next-gen design tools including AI.
Key Responsibilities
Design Culture-Defining Collaborations (Across Categories)
- Concept and design collaboration collections spanning beauty, accessories, lifestyle, gifting, and hybrid/experiential products.
- Translate partner IP, brand worlds, and storytelling into innovative, Gen Alpha-relevant product ecosystems.
- Create collections that go beyond single items — think drops, collectibles, bundles, and cross-category experiences.
Own the Collaboration Creative Vision
- Interpret and elevate brand guidelines into fresh, unexpected multi-category product executions.
- Balance partner identity with Claire’s brand DNA to create cohesive, standout collections.
- Build strong visual narratives across product, packaging, retail, and digital touchpoints.
AI-Driven Design & Pitch Excellence
- Leverage AI tools (image generation, concepting, iteration, and visualization) to accelerate creativity and expand design possibilities.
- Create high-impact, pitch-ready decks that clearly communicate collaboration concepts to internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Translate early ideas into polished, compelling visuals that can be used for partner sell-in and approvals.
- Continuously explore new tools and workflows to enhance speed, quality, and innovation in the design process.
Drive Innovation & Newness
- Identify whitespace across categories — from beauty-adjacent to lifestyle and beyond.
- Push boundaries on formats, materials, and experiences (including phygital and customizable products).
- Ensure every collaboration is designed to be shared, collected, and talked about.
Spot What’s Next
- Identify emerging brands, IP, creators, and cultural moments relevant to Gen Alpha.
- Stay ahead of trends across social, gaming, entertainment, fashion, and tech.
- Proactively pitch new collaboration opportunities that unlock growth and excitement.
Who You Are
- A culturally fluent designer who understands Gen Alpha behavior, hype culture, and brand ecosystems.
- Fluent in AI-powered design tools and excited to integrate them into your creative process.
- Experienced in multi-category design — comfortable moving between beauty, accessories, and lifestyle.
- A strong storyteller with the ability to create visually compelling, presentation-ready work.
- Agile and collaborative — you thrive in fast-moving, cross-functional environments.
Qualifications
- 3+ years in product design, ideally with collaborations or licensed experience across multiple categories.
- Proven ability to create high-quality decks for partner pitches and internal sell-in.
- Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills + experience with AI design tools (e.g., generative imagery, rapid concepting platforms).
- Understanding of brand guidelines, approval processes, and retail execution.
The Energy
- Fast. Collaborative. Boundary-pushing. Always-on.
- Think: cross-category drops, AI-powered creativity, and collections designed to win the pitch and go viral.
If you’re ready to design, pitch, and build the collaborations everyone’s talking about — let’s go.
Summary
Claire’s is committed to adhering to all applicable company policies and federal, state, and local laws and regulations. All positions will be compensated at or above the legally mandated minimum wage for the location in which work is performed. The final compensation will be determined by various factors such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
Benefits for full-time employees included medical, dental, and vision insurance, voluntary welfare plans, bonus plan eligibility, 401(k) match, vacation time, sick time* and paid leave.
Benefits for part-time employees included voluntary welfare plans, 401(k) match, vacation time, sick time* and paid leave in required states.
- Sick Time: For the State of Washington, all employees will accrue paid sick time at the rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.
Claire's is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and we encourage applications from members of all underrepresented groups, including those with disabilities. We will accommodate applicants' needs, upon request, throughout all stages of the recruitment process. Please inform us of the accommodation(s) that you may require.
Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially. To request accommodation, please email Benefits@claires.com. Only messages sent for this purpose will be considered.
