Luxury Fashion Embroidery & Client Development Manager
New York City | Full-Time
A rare opportunity for a fashion-focused professional to build relationships, shape exceptional product development, and help grow a global luxury embroidery business in New York.
This role is ideal for someone with strong experience in luxury fashion, textiles, embellishment, product development, or client services. The Client Development Manager will serve as the key connection between New York fashion clients and an expert international design and production team.
What Makes This Role Special
- Work directly with luxury fashion houses, designers, and product-development teams.
- Represent exceptional hand embroidery, beading, embellishment, and textile surface development capabilities.
- Blend client development, creative collaboration, sampling coordination, and business growth.
- Build meaningful relationships across the New York luxury fashion market.
- Real opportunity to shape the New York presence and grow with the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and develop relationships with luxury fashion clients and prospective partners.
- Act as the primary liaison between clients and the design, sampling, and production teams.
- Guide embroidery and embellishment developments from initial concept through sample approval.
- Interpret client briefs, artwork, fabrics, references, and technical feedback.
- Present techniques, swatches, developments, and creative capabilities to fashion teams.
- Coordinate timelines, costing, production feasibility, and delivery expectations.
- Identify new business opportunities and convert development conversations into commercial partnerships.
Ideal Background
- 5–10 years of relevant experience in luxury or premium fashion.
- Background in product development, textiles, embellishment, embroidery, sourcing, production, account management, or business development.
- Strong understanding of sampling, costing, approvals, and garment development.
- Established relationships within the New York fashion industry highly valued.
- Excellent communication, organization, and client-facing skills.
- Strong aesthetic judgment and a genuine interest in building new business.
This is an opportunity to take ownership, bring creative ideas forward, and play a visible role in growing a highly specialized luxury fashion business.
