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Senior Manager – Textile & Product Merchandising

Jonathan Louis

📍 Los Angeles, CA

About the Company

Jonathan Louis is a California-based furniture manufacturer delivering high-quality, artfully designed home furnishings inspired by creativity, imagination, and self-expression. Their mission is to design and build quality furniture that provides value and reflects today’s lifestyle, driven by values of integrity, quality, respect, teamwork, fun, efficiency, and compassion.

Job Description

As the Senior Manager, Textile & Product Merchandising, you will curate fabric stories and styled vignettes that bring furniture to life—from trade-show floors to custom programs for top 100 accounts and OEM development with lifestyle brand partners. You will turn emerging trends in color, pattern, and texture into cover-to-frame combinations with broad appeal, working closely with retail buyers, product designers, engineers, and key mills to strengthen the brand and inspire retailers.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Curate trend-driven cover-to-frame combinations and styling for trade shows, top 100 account programs, and OEM partners.
• Build a well-rounded fabric assortment, manage key mill and vendor relationships, and source new fabrics.
• Partner with in-house and freelance designers, prototype, production, and marketing teams to take collections from concept to showroom floor.
• Lead merchandising and styling for Market, retailer events, design summits, marketing photography, and catalogs.
• Use sales data in seasonal line reviews and quarterly trend reports to recommend fabrics to add, keep, or drop.
• Create mood boards, fabric stories, and product training for the sales team and retail partners.
• Work with Quality Control to approve master fabric swatches and improve product quality.
• Drive development calendars and launch timelines, lead cover-to-frame meetings, and mentor junior product development team members.
• Travel to Market, Interwoven Textile Trade Show, and inspiration trips to stay ahead of trends and competitors.

Eligibility Criteria & Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in textile design, interior design, fashion merchandising, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience: 6+ years in product design/development or interior design, including management experience.
• Domain Expertise: Upholstery or soft goods category management experience, ideally in home furnishings.
• Portfolio: Strong portfolio of furniture and home work demonstrating the ability to turn trend research into market-ready collections.
• Design Sense: Exceptional eye for color, pattern, scale, and texture, with solid knowledge of furniture styles, upholstery construction, and materials.
• Software Skills: Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, CAD, or similar programs.
• Core Skills: Strong project management, presentation, communication skills, and team mentoring experience.
• Mobility: Ability to travel to trade shows, markets, and international events.
• Language Preference: Bilingual English/Spanish is preferred.

Salary & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off & paid holidays
• Employee furniture discount

Application Process

Interested candidates can apply directly online through the official job portal link provided below.

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