Creative Director / Head of Fine Jewelry Design & AI Innovation

Job Description

Creative Director / Head of Fine Jewelry Design & AI Innovation.

Company: AJS Creations

Location: Secaucus, New Jersey, or New York City

Annual Base Salary: $200,000

Reports to: Founder

Travel: Regular travel to India studios and manufacturing facilities

Build the next generation of jewelry design

Can you use AI to spot an emerging jewelry trend, explore its creative possibilities, and apply years of industry experience to select the designs customers will want to buy?

AJS Creations, the parent company of Clean Origin, Grown Brilliance, Jewlr.com, and Charles & Colvard , is seeking a Group Head of Design & Trend to build and lead an AI-native design studio across our portfolio.

We are looking for an accomplished fine jewelry design leader who already uses AI extensively—and has ambitious, practical ideas for taking it further. AI must be integral to how you research, develop concepts, evaluate options, direct your team, and learn from customers.

You will combine emerging technology with deep expertise in jewelry, craftsmanship, and consumer taste to decide what we should make next.

Your mandate

Build a studio where AI is embedded throughout the creative workflow:

Discover trends → develop concepts → generate variations → curate designs → engineer and sample → test → refine and scale.

You will establish how this process works across our U.S. and India teams, connecting creative direction with the group’s existing design and manufacturing capabilities.

Your industry experience will be essential at every decision point. You must know which AI-generated ideas have originality, which fit a particular brand, which can be manufactured beautifully, and which have a credible commercial opportunity.

Four brands. Distinct creative identities.

Your work will span:

1. Clean Origin: Diamond bridal and fine jewelry grounded in thoughtful design, quality, and transparency.
2. Grown Brilliance: Modern lab-grown diamond luxury, from engagement rings to expressive fine jewelry and contemporary heirlooms.
3. Jewlr.com: Personalized jewelry built around individual stories, meaningful details, and gifting.
4. Charles & Colvard: Moissanite and lab-grown diamond fine jewelry, including Forever One™ and Caydia®.

You will use AI to explore opportunities across this portfolio while protecting each brand’s distinct customer, aesthetic, and price positioning.

What you will lead

Create an AI-powered trend intelligence engine

Develop new ways to identify emerging demand by connecting signals from search, social media, runway, red carpet, bridal culture, competitor launches, customer feedback, and sales performance.

Use AI to synthesize these inputs, uncover patterns, and surface opportunities earlier. Apply your experience to distinguish meaningful shifts from short-lived noise and turn the strongest signals into specific design briefs.

Make AI part of everyday design development

Personally use—and lead the team in using—generative image tools, AI-assisted research, rendering, and design exploration throughout the working day.

Build workflows that move rapidly from an initial direction to a broad range of silhouettes, stone combinations, settings, proportions, and collection concepts. Establish repeatable methods that the wider team can use consistently.

Bring expert judgment to selection and refinement

Curate the strongest concepts against clear criteria: brand fit, originality, customer appeal, wearability, manufacturability, price, and commercial potential.

Know when an attractive image represents a compelling piece of jewelry—and when its construction, proportions, or economics need substantial work.

Translate a trend differently for a $300 personalized gift and a $10,000 bridal piece.

Connect AI exploration with production expertise

Lead the New York team and direct design priorities across the India design organization. Partner with the Technical Design Lead, CAD designers, and manufacturing teams to turn selected concepts into technically sound CAD and samples.

Create a dependable handoff between AI-generated imagery and production development, with rigorous review of settings, stone tolerances, metal weight, durability, and cost.

Build a continuous learning loop

Use AI-assisted analysis of sell-through, search behavior, customer response, and channel performance to improve design decisions.

Test promising concepts, refine the assortment, and expand successful collections. Feed what you learn back into trend research and future briefs.

Keep improving how the studio works

Actively discover and test new tools. Measure their contribution to creative quality, development speed, and team productivity, and adopt those that deliver meaningful improvements.

Set clear standards for responsible tool use, protection of proprietary designs, and review of generated work.

What you bring

Demonstrated AI fluency is essential

You should be able to show us:

1. Extensive current use of AI in your own creative work, including research, concepting, visual development, and refinement.
2. Workflows you have built or substantially improved using AI , with clear examples of the process and its results.
3. Innovative approaches to trend discovery , including how you combine multiple sources of information to identify opportunities.
4. Strong creative direction of generative tools: the ability to guide, iterate, critique, and curate outputs toward a specific commercial brief.
5. A practical understanding of AI’s limitations , including unreliable research, derivative concepts, and jewelry imagery that cannot translate directly into production.
6. The ability to teach and lead others , making effective AI use a daily team capability.

We expect concrete examples of your work, your decisions, and the improvements you achieved.

Deep jewelry expertise is equally important

1. 12+ years in fine jewelry design , including 5+ years leading design teams .
2. A portfolio of commercially successful collections, with a clear explanation of your contribution and results.
3. Deep knowledge of bridal and fashion jewelry, diamond shapes and cuts, settings, precious metals, and gemstones.
4. Experience with lab-grown diamonds and an understanding of natural diamonds and moissanite.
5. Experience designing across multiple brands, customer segments, and price points.
6. Hands-on proficiency with jewelry CAD tools such as Matrix, Rhino, or ZBrush, supported by strong manufacturing knowledge.
7. Experience working with international production teams; experience with India is especially valuable.
8. Strong understanding of the U.S. jewelry consumer and how product needs differ across e-commerce, stores, marketplaces, live commerce, and retail partners.

What success looks like

In your first 90 days, you will:

1. Assess each brand’s assortment, customer, sales performance, and existing design process.
2. Establish clear design identities and creative priorities for the portfolio.
3. Put an initial AI-powered trend research and concept development workflow into daily use across both locations.
4. Move a first capsule collection through the new workflow, from trend insight to curated concepts, CAD, and samples, ready for customer testing.

Over your first year, you will deliver:

1. A functioning AI-native studio with measurable adoption across the team.
2. Faster development from trend discovery to sample.
3. Stronger commercial performance from new designs.
4. Clearer differentiation between brands.
5. Greater creative exploration and higher-quality output per designer.

Why join AJS Creations

This is an opportunity to shape how a multi-brand jewelry business discovers trends and develops products.

You will have access to established brands, experienced design teams, manufacturing capabilities, and direct engagement with the Founder. You will have the scope to introduce new methods, test your ideas in the market, and see your creative decisions become products customers wear and cherish.

We want someone excited to build that capability—and curious enough to keep advancing it.

How to apply

Apply through LinkedIn with your résumé and portfolio.

Alongside examples of successful jewelry collections, include a brief case study showing how you used AI to move from research or trend discovery to design development. Explain the tools you used, the workflow you created, the decisions you made, and the results.

Please share only work and information you are authorized to disclose.

Bring your jewelry expertise, your AI fluency, and your vision for what a modern design studio can become.

AJS Creations is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.