Backbone Commerce started as a number of independent online brands before expanding largely into the merch category for creators. Today, Backbone Commerce designs merchandising programs and showcases them across personalized branded merch shops for content creators, musicians, comedians, artist, brands and more! Let us be the Backbone you’re looking for to start your business out on a solid path.Services:- Product design & licensing- Web & UX design- Social media & marketing- Ideation & development- Fulfillment & production- Customer support & metricshttps://www.backbonecommerce.comhttps://linktr.ee/Backbonecommerce

- Creating and managing creative decks for various projects, including merch drops, product development, marketing campaigns, and brand initiatives.- Collaborating with the creative director and other stake holders to align creative vision and strategy across different projects.- Communicating effectively with cross-functional teams, including product development, brand management, and marketing, to ensure that projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.- Staying up-to-date with industry trends and best practices, and applying this knowledge to improve the quality of work produced by the team.- Assigning and managing work for a team of freelancers, ensuring that projects are completed on time and to a high standard.

- Interpret ideas into product strategies. Partner with key stakeholders to introduce, influence and challenge assortments.- Define growth products, brands, and retail accounts seasonally.- Collaborate with sourcing on seasonal strategies ensuring we are productive partners to our manufacturing suppliers and sales team.- Partner with Creative, Licensing and Sales on new and most relevant licenses.- Partner with Creative Directors on division initiatives, surfacing new ideas to impact all businesses and evolve design communication tools for increased influence.- Keep an active pulse on the market. Shop stores/online constantly.- Drive research and set category trends each season. Surface new opportunities. - Collaborate with licensing partners on category property strategy.- Oversee employee recruitment, hiring, training and onboarding.- Support active coaching and growth plans for each team member.- Participate in management training sessions to expand and refine leadership skills.- Execute employee reviews and assessments- Oversee division process for inputting new product concepts in our PLM system. Insure adherence to the requirements of the organization, clients, customers, and manufacturing partners.- Oversee team calendar and assignments. Communicate determined goals clearly to partner departments and development team.- Oversee concept and sample development process. Lead in the execution sample review, active sampling, sample development (tech packs), and concept revisions from partners with purpose in keeping team ahead of schedule.- Ensure accurate product development instructions for our manufacturing partners to create quality and right priced samples against approved concepts.

- Manage, communicate & oversee workloads for Cebu team employees- Maintain awareness of influential artists and designers while keeping a pulse on the competitive market. Increasing market share where opportunities are recognizable & present.- Pulling together and presenting industry trends to design management, peers, clients, and customers.- Defining goals & best case scenarios with design management, peers, clients, and customers.- Ideating and interpreting ideas into graphic concepts. Partnering with design management, peers, clients, customers, and manufacturing partners to challenge and proof product concepts.- Entering & managing product concepts into product lifecycle management software adhering to the requirements of the organization, clients, customers, and manufacturing partners.- Addressing product illustration and graphic comments from the organization, clients, customers, and manufacturing partners. Developing design solutions which accommodate best interests of all partners involved while maintaining the integrity of the design.- Developing product development instructions/ tech packs for manufacturing partners to create quality and right priced samples against approved concepts. Developing design solutions to accommodate differences in instruction and manufacturing partners recommendations.- Reviewing and commenting on product samples arrived from manufacturing partners. Updating the product development instructions as needed to meet satisfaction of clients, customers, and internal company standards.

- Implementing B2B & B2C E-commerce product portfolios for large network site launches (SpongeBob shop, South Park shop, MTV shop, Comedy Central store, Wild 'N Out shop Etc.)- Conceptual design for 100+ licensed consumer products- Newsletters, banners & enhanced brand content across all platforms- Mentoring design team & strengthening department strategies- Implementing process & creating streamlined templates for future use- Weekly design meetings with goals & independent project structures- Quarterly photo-shoot planning & preparation- Research and development of current trends, techniques & applications- Presentations and pitch request

- Develop and implement graphic designs for Regal corporate advertising and marketing strategies- Follow style guidelines, set forth from the Marketing Communications department, from initial concept to finished product. This includes but is not limited to catalogs, brochures, flyers, installation and maintenance manuals, price sheet pages and magazine ads- Meet specified volume/production targets agreed to by individual project- Log and record all documents accurately and in line with procedures set by the team- Participate in weekly calls and monthly status communications as required- Maintain knowledge of latest relevant computer technology and graphic software updates- Assist in solving technical design problems as they arise- Follow Regals Ethics and Safety and Security Policies- Adhere to all Export and Import Policies- Follow State and Federal Environmental Compliance Programs- Adhere to ISO 9000 Standards- Tradeshow graphics & planning

- Generate on-trend accessory & apparel design concepts- Generate progressive development ideas and techniques- Maintaining all outgoing accessory art and working with vendors to troubleshoot any issues that may arise- Creating standardized templates for future use- Creating all packaging for final product assembly- Research and development of current trends and popular pop culture licenses

- Prepare files for printing, review separations, and ensure all images, text, & layout are error free- Ensure all art meets expectations of the licensor, customer, and overall company- Oversee all final quality checks with finish product and collaborate with vendors- Create guidelines with art sizing, color-callouts, print method, and labeling requirements- Create all tag-less art with coo/content and customer specific needs- In house photography for social media needs- DTG samples as needed for pre production needs- Presentations and colorway request as needed

- Digitizing artwork for embroidery- Machine setup and break down (Threading proper colors per needle)- DTG for custom designs- Running heat presses & cutters for vinyl applications and decals- Sending customer sample jpegs for photo approval before running orders- Hooping orders to specific placements

- Customer service rep./order entry- Vendor fulfillment management- Artwork setup and ripping films for production- Pin-up of all films and artwork- Shipping and receiving management- Maintaining all incoming orders- Maintaining clear communication with customers- Supervising work for daily production schedule

- Specialized in urban painting, design, and photography- 3 to 4 Open studio shows per year

- Building and joining artist frames- Cutting mat to specific dimensions- Color correcting photos as needed- Mounting custom photos/artwork

- Custom graphics- Customer signage- Designed skate/snow vinyl wrap lines- Customer service - E-Commerce sales