Sesame
Eyewear Designer
San Francisco · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 233 days ago
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About the role
- We're looking for an Eyewear Designer who is passionate about creating luxury fashion eyewear that blends refined aesthetics, advanced materials, and thoughtful user experience.
- You bring a trained eye for proportion, fit, and fashion relevance, and the technical rigor to move seamlessly from concept through manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Generate innovative eyewear design and CMF concepts that align with our brand's aesthetic, fashion direction, and user needs
- contributing to and helping define our design language.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineers, CMF specialists, product managers, and modelers, to explore, develop, and refine frame concepts, silhouettes, and material approaches.
- Create detailed sketches, technical drawings to visualize and communicate design intent.
- Develop prototypes and color/material mockups to evaluate proportions, fit, and aesthetic quality.
- Present design proposals to stakeholders and incorporate feedback to refine frames, patterns, and CMF direction.
- Iterate on designs based on user insights, testing feedback, and internal reviews to optimize comfort, usability, and visual appeal.
- Maintain a strong focus on nose bridge fit, temple comfort, weight distribution, and overall human factors.
- Work closely with engineering, manufacturing partners, and material suppliers to ensure design feasibility and production accuracy.
- Generate innovative eyewear design and CMF concepts that align with our brand's aesthetic, fashion direction, and user needs; contributing to and helping define our design language.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of frame construction, CMF development, and design for manufacturing in the eyewear industry.
- High proficiency in 2D design tools (such as Illustrator, Photoshop, or equivalent) for creating detailed drawings, CMF specs, and presentation layouts.
Nice to have
- In-depth knowledge of eyewear-specific materials and manufacturing processes including hinges, wire cores, acetate and metal fabrication, and surface finishing.
- Experience with 3D design tools (Rhinoceros, Alias, or equivalent) for frame modeling and technical development.
- Experience working with high-end eyewear brands, optical houses, or luxury fashion houses.
- Familiarity with responsible material sourcing relevant to luxury eyewear.
- Sesame is committed to a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered.
- We welcome all qualified applicants, embracing diversity in race, gender, identity, orientation, ability, and more.
- We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
- Contact careers@sesame.com for assistance.
Compensation
- 401 (k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
- Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options
- Benefits do not apply to contingent/contract workers.
- With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice agents part of our daily lives.
Company info
- We are a group of individuals who care deeply about our craft.
- We are obsessive down to fractional millimeters.
- We are passionate about things no one will ever see or know - simply because it's the right thing to do.
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