Senior Designer - Bags & Soft Accessories

Role Summary

FP Movement is seeking a visionary, highly creative, and technically fluent Senior Designer – Bags & Soft Accessories to lead the concept and design strategy for our expanding accessories business. This role sits at the precise intersection of performance functionality, trend-setting design, and FP Movement’s signature aesthetic—creating elevated, sport bags and accessories that seamlessly bridge workout performance and active lifestyle movement.

We are looking for a true creative force—someone with a relentless focus on newness, technology, authentically rooted in curiosity, and a deep obsession with macro trends in accessories, fashion, and sports culture. As an entrepreneurial builder, you will bring a fresh point of view to how athletic bags and soft accessories look, feel, and function, while protecting the FP Movement brand handwriting. 

Role Responsibilities

Creative Direction, Trend & Active Culture

• Drive Seasonal Newness: Spearhead the seasonal creative strategy, bringing fresh, unexpected, and original references to athletic bags and soft accessories.
• Trend & Cultural Research: Continually research macro-fashion, global streetwear, sport culture, and active lifestyle trends, translating this merge of fashion with technology into successful, innovation-driven product stories while protecting the FP Movement handwriting. 
• Multi-Category Design Execution: Design 4-season inline collections across technical bags (backpacks, duffles, totes, slings) and soft accessories (headwear, cold-weather accessories, socks, hair accessories, and small goods).
• Visual Storytelling: Create compelling trends, materials, shape and innovation direction, and elevated visual narratives that communicate design direction to internal leadership and brand partners.
• Technical: Utilize understanding of accessory development and construction while partnering with development partners to execute these designs to final results.

Entrepreneurial Mindset & Process Innovation

• Strong collaboration: partner collaboratively with cross channel design teams, development, and merchant teams, on overall development as well as implementing new processes and evaluating calendar needs together
• AI & Digital Workflow Integration: Leverage modern, AI-powered design platforms alongside Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop) and CAD tools to accelerate ideation, digital rendering, and concept alignment.
• Assortment Balance: Partner closely with Merchandising and Development teams to ensure products hit targeted price points and margin goals while maintaining high design integrity.

Role Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of dedicated design and product development experience in bags, soft goods, or performance accessories within fashion, athletic, or outdoor industries.
• Ability to demonstrate a deep Understanding of the FP Movement Customer.
• Technical Mastery: Deep hands-on knowledge of soft goods manufacturing, technical synthetics, natural/heritage textiles, performance trims, hardware, and sustainable material sourcing.
• Trend & Fashion Sensitivity: Proven ability to spot emerging trends across active culture and fashion, applying them thoughtfully to performance products.
• Software & AI Proficiency: Advanced expertise in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, PLM platforms, and familiarity with AI-driven ideation/rendering tools.
• Entrepreneurial & Collaborative Approach: A proactive, self-starter mindset with low ego, exceptional communication skills, and a genuine passion for collaborative problem-solving across cross-functional teams.
• Portfolio Requirement: A portfolio demonstrating strong visual taste, artistry, creative originality, detailed technical drawings, CMF development, and finished production samples.

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The Perks

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