Freelance Softgoods Designer

Freelance Softgoods Designer

Location: Antwerp / Amsterdam | Freelance | Experience: 7+ years of experience in softgoods design, or a background in Industrial Design or CMF with at least 3–4 years specialising in softgoods.

Design the softgoods that carry Loop beyond the ear

At Loop, softgoods aren't a side project. They're embedded in our ecosystem of wearable products and how they show up in someone's hands and daily routine. From wearables like sleep masks to the bags, cases, and pouches that carry our products, softgoods carry Loop's visual identity and performance standards into new materials and form factors.

As our Senior Softgoods Designer, you'll own softgoods design execution across assigned product and accessory programs, from early concept and material exploration through pattern development, prototyping, and production-ready design.

You'll lead the softgoods workstream for your programs end to end, working closely with Product Development Engineering, and suppliers to solve construction, integration, and manufacturing challenges, and with Industrial Design, CMF, UX, and Packaging wherever softgoods meet Loop's other products.

You'll operate with a high degree of independence, balancing design vision, user needs, material choices, and manufacturability, and making the trade-offs behind each decision visible through prototypes, visuals, and storytelling.

You Won't

You're comfortable navigating ambiguity in a design brief and can propose multiple viable directions rather than waiting for one to be handed to you.

You move fluidly between products worn on the body and protective or carrying solutions like bags and cases, connecting each design choice back to user benefit, feasibility, and Loop's wider product vision.

You raise the bar for the people around you, through craft and judgment in your own work, and through the feedback and critique you bring to the rest of the Design team.

Still interested?

Great. If you're excited about shaping how softgoods extend Loop's product ecosystem, from sleep masks to the bags and cases that carry them, and about owning that design work independently from concept to production, we'd love to hear from you.

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Application Window & Recruiter Interview: 8 Sept - 9 Oct

Hiring Manager Interview: 12 Oct - 16 Oct

Business Case & Team Interview: 19 Oct -23 Oct

Target Start Date: 2 Nov / 1 Dec