CMF Designer

Job description

Trove Brands is a privately-held house of brands including BlenderBottle®, Owala®, Whiskware®, and Eco-Brite®. Our patented and best-selling products are designed to simplify and improve everyday life with leading-edge innovation, incomparable quality, and aspirational style. A career at Trove Brands is not about punching the clock. It’s about embracing exciting and fast-paced opportunities that sharpen your skills, drive innovation, and play an integral role in growing our global reach. Your work will not only impact the company, it will impact the lives of millions of people around the world. When you step up to a career at Trove, you step up to cutting-edge excellence. You sign up for bold action and invigorating synergy. You agree to face—and break through—new challenges every single day. We’re looking for a curious, creative, and technically minded CMF Designer to turn emerging trends and creative ideas into innovative, manufacturable finishes. This role partners closely with Brand, Design, Engineering, Product Development, Regulatory & Compliance, and Manufacturing. You’ll explore emerging trends in materials, finishes, and application techniques, then investigate how those trends could translate into new and differentiated product finishes. Our primary focus is drinkware, with an emphasis on paints, coatings, plastics, graphics, textures, and application processes that create distinctive aesthetics. **Key Responsibilities:** - Research emerging CMF, consumer, lifestyle, and manufacturing trends and translate them into new finish opportunities. - Explore materials, coatings, surface treatments, textures, graphics, and application processes within and beyond the drinkware industry. - Develop tangible finish concepts, samples, and technical possibilities to share with Product Development and Brand partners. - Identify supplier technologies and manufacturing capabilities that could unlock new product experiences. - Partner with Brand and Design teams to translate creative ideas into technically achievable CMF solutions. - Develop finishes for existing and future product platforms, translating creative intent into clear technical targets. - Work directly with factories and suppliers to develop, sample, refine, and manufacture new finishes. - Bridge creative intent and manufacturing reality, troubleshooting challenges with Engineering, Quality, Compliance, Product Development, and suppliers. - Evaluate paints, coatings, plastics, materials, and application processes against performance and manufacturing requirements. - Coordinate and conduct testing for durability, adhesion, chemical resistance, wear, appearance, and other relevant criteria. - Document testing, results, findings, development learnings, and technical specifications. - Ensure finishes meet applicable performance, quality, regulatory, and compliance requirements before production. - Create and maintain a CMF finish database and physical library of approved finishes, processes, specifications, test results, and regulatory documentation. **Required Qualifications:** - 3–5 years of experience in CMF, industrial design, product design, materials, product development, or a related field. Internships and relevant or project experience are welcome. - Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Material Design/Science, or a related discipline—or equivalent demonstrated experience. - Strong curiosity about materials, finishes, manufacturing processes, and how things are made. - Ability to recognize trends and translate inspiration into practical product and manufacturing opportunities. - A hands-on mindset and comfort working with physical samples, prototypes, testing, and technical documentation. - Strong attention to detail, organization, problem-solving, and communication skills. - A collaborative approach and ability to work effectively across creative, technical, supplier, and manufacturing teams. - Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and familiarity with 3D visualization/CAD tools such as KeyShot, SolidWorks, or similar tools. - Exposure to finish and material testing methods for adhesion, durability, abrasion, chemical resistance, and other product performance requirements. - Comfort using technical documentation and database tools to maintain finish specifications, test results, approvals, supplier information, and regulatory records. - Ability to work hands-on with physical samples, prototypes, supplier submissions, and manufacturing standards throughout the development process - **Portfolio required**, demonstrating relevant CMF, product design, material/finish development, or related work that showcases your experience, process, and technical thinking. **Desired Qualifications:** - Experience or exposure to paints, coatings, plastics, printing, graphics, textures, surface treatments, material testing, supplier development, or high-volume consumer product manufacturing Our culture is passionate, entrepreneurial, and energetic. We value innovation through collaboration. And while we work smart and hard, we also connect and celebrate with equal gusto. We host team-building activities, athletic events, and seasonal celebrations to foster community and reward accomplishments. Bottom line? You’ll love it here. Among the many benefits our team members enjoy are: - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care - 401k package with employer matching - Paid Time Off - Maternity/Paternity leave - Full indoor basketball/volleyball court - Fully equipped fitness center (cardio, weights, functional fitness area, lockers and showers, etc.) - Yoga studio - Meditation/Nap room - And much more! *Trove Brands is an equal opportunity employer.* *Phone calls regarding this position are not accepted.* ***This is a fully in-office position at our HQ in Lehi, Utah.***