CMF Designer

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.