Jewellery Design Intern
In person - London / Hybrid
Start As soon as possible
Commitment Full time or Part time
Location WFH · 1–2 days WeWork London
Reports To Head of Design
Package Paid & equity
The Eleven is a jewellery brand for women who love football. We partner directly with clubs to create licensed collections that weave crests, dates and club symbols into jewellery women actually want to wear. Our first collection has shipped, two club partnerships are signed, and we are designing the next collection now.
This is a full-time internship working directly under Guillaume Stapylton-Smith, our Head of Design, across design research, collections and CAD.
What you’ll work on
- Design research for our club collections: crest history, kit archives, club symbols and supporter culture.
- Moodboards and concept boards for new collections and club partnership pitches.
- CAD models and technical drawings for pieces going into prototyping with our manufacturing partners.
- Spec sheets and tech packs: stone callouts, plating, dimensions, tolerances, ready to send to suppliers and manufacturers.
Who you’ll learn from
Guillaume trained at Paris’s Haute École de Joaillerie and is a trained gemmologist. He runs his own bespoke and antique jewellery studio in London, is a member of the National Association of Jewellers, and was named on Professional Jeweller’s 2025 Power List. You will learn how a piece goes from sketch to tech pack to finished jewellery, and how to build collections for a licensed brand.
You will also work with Mimi Samama, our founder and CEO, and pitch your concepts to her yourself. We are a small team, so you will see everything: club partnerships, licensing negotiations and the commercial decisions behind every collection.
Must have
- Proficient across the Adobe suite, especially Illustrator and Photoshop: boards, technical flats and layouts are the daily work.
- CAD skills (Rhino, Matrix or similar).
- Recent graduate in jewellery design or a closely related discipline, with strong visual research instincts.
- Self-directed, and comfortable working from home with 1-2 days a week in person in London.
Nice to have
- Understanding of silver, vermeil, plating, stone setting and casting.
- Rendering (KeyShot or similar) and InDesign for pitch and lookbook layouts.
- Experience preparing files for 3D printing, or working with a workshop or manufacturer.
- An interest in football and fan culture. You don’t need to know the offside rule, but you should be curious about why a crest or a date matters to a supporter.
What we look for in a portfolio
- The research and iteration behind one project in depth, rather than ten finished renders.
- One piece resolved technically: a CAD model or technical drawing a manufacturer could work from.
- Storytelling. A project rooted in a real reference world: a place, a subculture, an archive. That is exactly how we design for clubs.
A paid, full-time internship.
We want it to grow into a permanent junior design role, with equity, as the brand scales.
About The Eleven
See what we make at theelevenjewellery.com.
Half a billion women follow football, and the merchandise aisle was never built for them. The Eleven makes jewellery worthy of that loyalty: club codes in premium materials, designed in Europe, worn from the office to the stand. Founded by Mimi Samama, because the club should go where you go, to the office, to the street, not just the stand. Guillaume Stapylton-Smith leads design.
First collection shipped, two club partnerships signed, more in the pipeline.
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