Director Product Design, Trend & CMF

This is a unique opportunity to define how Staples Own Brand products look, feel, and show up in the world—at scale, across categories used every day by millions of customers. This role will help define and evolve the visual and emotional identity of Staples Own Brand products- shaping how each brand comes to life through product. Through trend, color, material, and finish strategy, this leader will establish distinct brand personas and translate them into scalable product design systems that create cohesion across categories, seasons, and customer touchpoints. We are seeking a Director Product Design to build and lead our CMF (Color, Material & Finish) and product trend capability within the Strategic Enablement + Centers of Excellence function. This role operates as a horizontal design authority across brands and categories, ensuring consistent, high-quality product expression at scale. This role is firmly rooted in product design—not marketing creative. While informed by brand strategy and marketing-led brand expression, this leader owns how brand comes to life physically in the product - through color, material, finish, and overall product composition. You will define product design language, seasonal direction, and enterprise-wide design systems that enable teams to consistently deliver cohesive, differentiated, and commercially successful assortments.