About

Maria Then

Founder, The Product Collective

Maria Then is a jewelry product strategy and design executive who has created commercially relevant product for luxury houses and billion-dollar retailers, including Signet, Michael Hill, and Michael Kors.

Her work connects design language, customer behavior, assortment architecture, and margin discipline as one system.

She has built new brands, repositioned legacy assortments, and led product direction across the US, Australia, and Europe.

Maria trained in design at FIT and Parsons and holds gemology and fine jewelry certifications from GIA and L’École Van Cleef & Arpels. She is based between New York and Dallas.