Assistant CAD Designer (Handbags)

Tapestry, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global lifestyle brand seeks an Assistant CAD Designer for its Handbags line, responsible for creating and rendering seasonal leather goods illustrations. Ideal candidates are creative, detail-oriented, and possess strong design skills, with experience in fashion accessories. This role supports a collaborative design environment focused on innovative trends.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of design experience required.
• Experience designing fashion leather accessories is a plus.
• Strong computer knowledge including Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Responsibilities

• Create and render illustrations using Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Participate in research and development of seasonal trends.
• Support design team with technical specs and development.

Skills

Strong design and conceptual skills

Strong communication skills

Strong ability to hand sketch

Strong sense of trends/style

Education

1+ years of design experience

Experience with fashion leather accessories

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

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Assistant CAD Designer (Handbags)

Kate Spade

New York City, NY, US

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles.

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive. VisitOur People page to learn more about Tapestry's commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

Job Title: Assistant CAD Designer (Handbags)

Primary Purpose: The Assistant CAD Designer will work under the direction of the Sr Director, Creative Studio to create and execute all handbag and slg sketches into 2D/3D illustrations to visually represent designs and design stories for presentations and factory execution. The ideal candidate must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, interpret a wide variety of actual and prospective components and materials into compelling 2D renderings and to group images for presentations in collaboration with the design team.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Create and render the seasonal full assortment of leather goods illustrations using photoshop and illustrator
• Create original artwork and adjust existing artwork to be translated into leather applique and/or 3-dimensional pieces.
• Creates swatches and brush patterns in illustrator to use for CADs and share with design team
• Actively participates in the conceptual development of product lines (i.e., ability to communicate and sell ideas/concepts).
• Participate in research and development of seasonal trends and keep up-to-date on current trends.
• Create and maintain presentation boards and visual decks for handbags and slgs.
• Supports design team with material development technical specs
• Assistwith artwork placementfordetailed technical specsfor all rounds of development.
• Build and maintain a CAD library within Adobe Creative Cloud for the design team to easily access and utilize

Education and experience required:

• 1+ years of design experience
• Experience designing fashion leather accessories; experience with SLGs a plus.
• Strong computer knowledge, including adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Strong ability to hand sketch and computer render.
• Strong design and conceptual skills.
• Strong sense of trends/style, graphic design and color.
• Experience working with printsis a plus.
• Handbag material and construction knowledge.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others:Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in theirteam; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Kate Spade is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under the consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or [e-mail]

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Nearest Secondary Market: New York City
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