Senior Fine Jewelry Designer

Senior Fine Jewelry Designer

Company: Veronique Oro Corp.
HQ: New York City (NYC)
Role Scope: Global (including U.S., Europe, and SE Asia) | Visa Sponsorship Available (for qualified candidates, where permitted)
Travel: Occasionally required (domestic + international)

About Veronique Oro Corp.

Veronique Oro Corp. is a global jewelry manufacturer headquartered in NYC, known for producing high-quality, mechanism-driven fine jewelry that rivals top European production. We build pieces where engineering, precision, and beauty must coexist — jewelry with function, movement, and exceptional finishing.

We are expanding both our luxury manufacturing capabilities (the backbone of the business), and our fine jewelry collections (the creative engine). This is a rare opportunity for a Senior Designer to lead across both worlds — helping elevate our design team, refine production-ready luxury designs, and develop new collections that can genuinely disrupt the fine jewelry industry.

The Role

We’re hiring a Senior Fine Jewelry Designer to serve as a key design leader across manufacturing. You will work directly with the Creative Director and partner closely with R&D, Production, and Leadership to take concepts from idea to production launch, at the highest luxury standard. This role demands taste, technical depth, and intensity. We’re looking for someone who is here for: the long run, building something new and world-class, and has the flexibility and drive to thrive in an ambitious environment.

What You’ll Do

1) Design Leadership and Team Training

Train and mentor a design team in luxury standards, precision design thinking, and production-ready execution. Create and enforce best practices across sketch, CAD, sampling, spec documentation, and review cycles. Raise the bar on craft: proportion, stone layout, symmetry, finishing callouts, comfort, durability, and detail integrity. 2) Jewelry Design

Lead design and development of fine jewelry — pieces with movement, articulation, engineered closures, or functional transformations. Collaborate with R&D and Production to ensure tolerances, wear, friction points, assembly methods, longevity, and serviceability are addressed early. Drive innovation in how mechanism jewelry is designed, tested, refined, and scaled — without sacrificing aesthetics. 3) Manufacturing Excellence

Improve and optimize designs for scalability, yield, and consistency, while maintaining luxury-level finishing. Reduce production friction: rework, weak points, overly complex assemblies, and avoidable cost drivers. Build or refine systems: component libraries, setting standards, design templates, finishing specs, and QA checkpoints. 4) Collections

Capture the Creative Director’s vision and translate it into cohesive luxury collections with a strong, identifiable signature. Conduct concept and market research: heritage references, customer behavior, trend signals, stone/material sourcing, and competitive analysis. Own the end-to-end design process: story → sketches → CAD → prototypes → final production specs. 5) Cross-Functional Collaboration

Serve as the design bridge between creative ambition and manufacturing reality. Lead design reviews and align stakeholders on tradeoffs (cost, complexity, timing, manufacturability, quality). Partner with Production to troubleshoot samples and production runs with speed and accountability. 6) Travel and On-Site Development

Travel to factories, workshops, suppliers, and key partners to oversee sampling, solve problems, and push quality forward. Be comfortable on the floor: reviewing assemblies, finishing, setting quality, mechanism testing, and iterative prototype rounds.

Who You Are

Required

Proven experience designing luxury fine jewelry with high standards of craftsmanship and finishing. Demonstrated success bringing designs into production (not just concept work). Strong understanding of precious materials and construction: gold fabrication or casting, stone setting implications, finishing, tolerances, wearability, and durability. Ability to communicate precisely through sketches, CAD, and production documentation (specs/tech packs, BOMs, tolerances, finishing notes). Mechanism / Engineering Strength (Strong Preference)

Experience designing jewelry with moving parts, engineered closures, articulation, hinges, hidden mechanisms, modular/convertible functionality, or similar complexity. Strong intuition for how small mechanical decisions affect long-term performance and serviceability. Tools

Advanced proficiency in jewelry CAD (e.g., Rhino / Matrix / MatrixGold / similar). Ability to produce manufacturing-ready outputs and guide prototyping decisions. Leadership and Work Ethic

Comfortable training designers, setting standards, and raising performance through mentorship and direct feedback. Highly accountable, fast-moving, and committed to excellence — you work hard and finish what you start. Flexible and unafraid of ambiguity — able to shift between brand creativity and manufacturing practicality.

We’ll Also Consider Exceptional Adjacent Backgrounds

Luxury experience is strongly preferred, but we will consider candidates from adjacent disciplines who can demonstrate a portfolio and technical understanding aligned with fine jewelry production, such as:

High-end watch/jewelry product design (micro-mechanical sensibility) Industrial design for precision luxury goods High-end accessories hardware design (luxury closures, engineered components) Master-level metalsmithing with repeatable production discipline Nice to Have

Experience building collection architecture (assortment strategy, hero pieces, line extensions). Exposure to European luxury standards (finishing expectations, setting quality, micro-detailing). Experience working across multiple global production partners. Comfort presenting to executives and influencing decisions with clarity.

Expectations

Occasional is required. This is a high-output role — design excellence plus real operational execution. You will be held to luxury standards and manufacturing realities at the same time. A mindset of continuous improvement is essential.

Hiring Process (May Include)

Portfolio review (required) Interviews with Creative, R&D/Production, and Leadership Practical design/CAD test References