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About the Role
Yesterday's Tomorrow Studio is seeking an Owner to lead overall studio vision, strategy, and operations in New York, NY. The role involves overseeing creative direction, managing client relationships, guiding multidisciplinary teams, and driving business development.
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Responsibilities
- Lead overall studio vision, strategy, and operations
- Oversee creative direction across fashion, product, and brand projects
- Manage client relationships, define project scopes, and guide multidisciplinary teams
- Ensure work meets high creative and strategic standards
- Handle business development, financial oversight, and resource planning to support sustainable studio growth
- Cultivate a collaborative, inclusive studio culture, mentor team members and partners
- Represent the studio in industry events, meetings, and presentations
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in creative direction, brand strategy, or design leadership within fashion, product, or related creative industries
- Strong portfolio showing work with both established and emerging brands, highlighting strategic thinking and distinctive visual storytelling
- Proven ability to manage studio operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and project resourcing in a fast paced environment
- Excellent client leadership skills, with experience in pitching concepts, negotiating scopes, and maintaining long term partnerships
- Ability to lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams, fostering inclusive collaboration among designers, strategists, and storytellers
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with comfort representing the studio publicly and in high stakes meetings
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of building, growing, or significantly scaling creative businesses or departments
- Bachelor's degree in design, communications, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Deep understanding of fashion and brand trends, with the ability to translate cultural insights into compelling creative directions
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Company Description
- Yesterday’s Tomorrow Studio is a multidisciplinary creative direction studio shaping fashion, product, and brand experiences for heritage and emerging brands.
- Founded by Orondava Mumford, the studio collaborates closely with senior designers, strategists, and storytellers to bring ambitious creative visions to life.
- Client work includes established names such as Levi’s, Converse, Crocs, Merrell (concept design), and Alpha Industries, along with new brands built from the ground up.
Role Description
- The Owner role at Yesterday’s Tomorrow Studio is a full time, on site position based in New York, NY.
- The Owner leads overall studio vision, strategy, and operations, overseeing creative direction across fashion, product, and brand projects.
- Day to day responsibilities include managing client relationships, defining project scopes, guiding multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring work meets high creative and strategic standards.
- The role also involves business development, financial oversight, and resource planning to support sustainable studio growth.
- The Owner cultivates a collaborative, inclusive studio culture, mentors team members and partners, and represents the studio in industry events, meetings, and presentations.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in creative direction, brand strategy, or design leadership within fashion, product, or related creative industries.
- Strong portfolio showing work with both established and emerging brands, highlighting strategic thinking and distinctive visual storytelling.
- Proven ability to manage studio operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and project resourcing in a fast paced environment.
- Excellent client leadership skills, with experience in pitching concepts, negotiating scopes, and maintaining long term partnerships.
- Ability to lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams, fostering inclusive collaboration among designers, strategists, and storytellers.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with comfort representing the studio publicly and in high stakes meetings.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of building, growing, or significantly scaling creative businesses or departments.
- Bachelor’s degree in design, communications, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Deep understanding of fashion and brand trends, with the ability to translate cultural insights into compelling creative directions.
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