Helsinki, Finland
Concept design manager
at Iittala
Iittala is seeking a concept design manager to join its team in Helsinki, Finland.
Iittala is dedicated to inspiring better living. What began as a glass factory in a small village in Finland back in 1881 has grown into an internationally known design brand that continues to define the progressive Nordic way of life.
Are you someone who thrives in creative, design focused spaces? Do your passions lie at the crossroads of fashion, art and design? If shaping the future of an iconic Nordic design house excites you and you’re ready to bring visionary concepts to life within a globally renowned brand, this is your calling!
Our offer
As a concept design manager, you will dive into a world where pioneering design to make the everyday extraordinary is your purpose and craftsmanship, art, design, fashion and architecture are a shared passion in your team. At Iittala, you’ll shape the future of creativity, crafting story-led, multi-material concepts that captivate and inspire in your work on our seasonal collections across multiple product lines.
You will step into a role as a visionary who brings a clear point of view, aesthetic and design capability to an agile, lean team within a global organisation with support and collaboration from the creative director, Janni Vepsäläinen. As with any design team, you’ll be expected to bring strong design sensibility that can disrupt the status-quo while also aligning to the creative direction of our iconic brand.
This is a full-time hybrid position reporting to the creative director and is based in Espoo, Finland near Helsinki.
What awaits you:
- deliver compelling story-led concepts aligned with our creative directors vision
- develop concepts for six-month seasonal collections
- conduct research, attend inspirational trips and digest insights
- identify new growth areas and react to current key product drivers
- create mood boards, orientations, seasonal colour and material pallets
- generate, sketch and visualise ideas and concepts
- create concept and product presentations
- work with designers to translate concepts into products
- get creative and engage with our world-renowned glass artisans at the iittala factory
What you bring:
- have experience in product, interior, architecture, furniture or fashion design
- have worked in fashion or luxury; or you’ve had a focus on luxury and/or premium materials, are fashion oriented and have a special sensibility for product
- we would be impressed with a multidisciplinary educational background from an experimental, boundary pushing institution, but we’d welcome other backgrounds and schools of experience – please apply if you have equivalent experience to bring to the table
Who you are:
- you balance your story-driven, creative mind with business acumen and pragmatism
- you are at home in an entrepreneurial environment with multi-cultural, international teams
- you are an advocate for craftsmanship and appreciate artisans
- you can look forward and disrupt while honouring the DNA of our brand
- you are experimental and playful with focus on conceptualising, prototyping and hacking
- eager and comfortable working with mixed media (products, materials, technologies, etc)
- you are able to communicate, influence, present and logical organise your ideas and work
Ready to join a 375-year-old legacy? Apply now!
Apply now via our career site by clicking the apply for job button below with your CV and portfolio in English, we review applications on a continuous basis and the role may close early in the case we find a fantastic new colleague! Your application is plenty indication of your interest, please do not write a cover letter.
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For Iittala, life is about progress: seeking ways to inspire, innovate and take a stand for what matters. Come make progress with us.
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