Collab Designer & Developer

The role

The Collab Designer & Developer drives the creative and technical execution of Db’s collaboration and partnership products. This role translates Senior Designer input into commercially viable, technically sound, and on-brand products. Working from brief through production approval, the position combines approx. 30% hands-on design (under the lead of a Senior Designer) and 70% detailed development work (including structured workflow management). It plays a key part in ensuring collab products meet quality, aesthetic, functional, and margin requirements while maintaining clear documentation and reliable cross-functional alignment. 

Work tasks 

Collab Projects 

• Design and develop collab products from brief to customer handover. 
• Create logo placement concepts, visual mockups, and embellishment files for customer approval and vendor execution. 
• Develop sketches, BOMs, and complete instructions for vendors. 
• Ensure alignment with partner feedback, design standards, and commercial requirements. 
• Business travel to factories and collab partners is mandatory 

Design Execution 

• Produce sketches and color-ups. 
• Collaborate with Senior Designers to ensure quality of design expression and brand consistency. 
• Prepare clear and visually compelling materials for internal and partner presentations.  

Technical & Development Support 

• Work with Product Developers to validate construction feasibility, durability, and supplier execution. 
• Lead sample reviews and integrate feedback into design updates and PLM documentation.   

Inline Design Support 

• Maintain sketches, color-ups, and other design updates for inline styles when required, under Senior Designers’ guidance. 
• Populate PLM with sketch and BOM updates. 
• Contribute to smaller or ad-hoc design tasks depending on seasonal needs. 

Key competences 

• Strong sketching and visualization skills (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop preferred). 
• Understanding of packs & bags construction, materials, and manufacturing constraints. 
• Ability to balance creative direction with commercial and technical feasibility. 
• Proficiency in PLM (Centric preferred) and structured documentation workflows. 

Qualifications & Experience 

• 1-3 years of design & development experience in bags, luggage, accessories, or technical apparel. 
• Experience designing products from concept to pre-production. 
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. 
• Experience in 3D (e.g. CLO, Browzwear) is a plus. 
• Experience preparing tech packs including vendor instructions. 
• PLM experience (Centric preferred) and familiarity with vendor-facing design workflows. 

 Personal attributes 

• Creative, detail-oriented, and highly organized. 
• Strong communicator and collaborator. 
• Able to work reliably across multiple styles and deadlines. 
• Adaptable to partner needs and shifting priorities, and short-term requests. 
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and committed to high-quality execution. 

Location: Oslo, Norway  Employment Type: Permanent, 100% Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Do you want to join our team as our new Collab Designer & Developer? Then we'd love to hear about you!