In the latest instalment of our Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit series, Omar Nobil, VP of product design and brand creative for Design Within Reach, explains what the company is looking for when hiring.
Alice Laycock: Can you talk me through the kinds of collections that you've released recently, and who you've been collaborating with"
Omar Nobil: In the last year, we've worked with a really amazing range of designers and creators and we've had some pretty notable product launches.
In the very recent past, we launched the Pastille collection with Hlynur Atlason of Atlason studio. He just won the Cooper Hewitt National Design award for product design.
We've also launched a really beautiful lounge chair with Gabriel Tan, the Soffi swivel chair. He happened to also launch a sofa with our sibling brand Herman Miller, the Luva sofa. We continue to launch extensions of really successful collections that we've developed with Egg Collective ? the Emmy sofa collection and Morrison tables.
During NYCxDesign, we did a collaboration with the artist Nick Cave, which featured his Knoll Textiles collection. Those are some of my personal highlights ? I think what it reflects is the range of talents that we're working with.
Omar Nobil, VP of product design and brand creative for Design Within Reach MillerKnoll. Top image: a Pastille Sectional Sofa by Design Within Reach
Alice Laycock: Are there specific skill sets that you're looking for people to have when you're hiring"
Omar Nobil:...