Windsor Smith Home is expanding its licensed product program, and we are hiring a designer to own it from sketch to shipped SKU. This is not a conceptual role. You will draw furniture and lighting, take it through vendor sampling and specification, hold the line on quality through production, and serve as our day-to-day counterpart to licensing partners. The work is equal parts design instinct and development discipline, and we need someone who is genuinely fluent in both. You will work directly with Windsor and with our existing manufacturing and licensing partners. The product you develop carries the WSH name, so your eye matters as much as your process.
- Design original furniture and lighting for licensed collections and for WSH interiors projects
- Produce shop drawings, specification sheets, and dimensioned documentation suitable for factory execution
- Manage the full development cycle: concept, prototype, sampling rounds, revisions, pre-production approval
- Source and evaluate materials, finishes, hardware, and componentry
- Serve as primary point of contact for licensing partners on timelines, deliverables, and approvals
- Review and comment on partner-produced samples, CADs, and marketing renderings
- Maintain the product library, tear sheets, and technical archive
- Support market and showroom launches, including High Point and West Coast trade events
- 5+ years designing **furniture and/or lighting** for production — residential, hospitality, or contract
- Demonstrated ownership of products from initial sketch through delivered goods, not concept work alone
- Working knowledge of case goods and upholstery construction, joinery, finishing, foam and fill specification, and lighting components (sockets, wiring, UL/ETL considerations)
- Fluency in CAD and drafting for manufacture — AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Rhino, or equivalent — plus SketchUp and Adobe CS
- Direct experience communicating with domestic and overseas vendors and factories
- A portfolio of pieces that have actually been built and sold
Windsor Smith has redefined the way we think about our homes. Across more than two decades, she has built a body of work spanning interiors, product design, and real estate, advancing groundbreaking ideas that challenge old paradigms of architecture and design. Her interiors—celebrated for their classicism, materiality, and emotional resonance—are the foundation of a practice that extends to product collaborations with respected home furnishings brands such as Century Furniture, Visual Comfort, and Kravet. She was a pioneer in luxury residential development, under her own brand and signature style, for innovators, creators, and global thought leaders alike. She is the author of Homefront: Design for Modern Living (Rizzoli).
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