Associate Designer Womens Wovens

Gap Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Gap Inc. seeks a creative product designer in New York to concept and develop sustainable product lines aligned with brand strategies and customer needs.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure style, fit, and quality, while pushing design boundaries and embracing risk. Responsibilities include developing concepts, presenting to leadership and partners, and creating tech packs with precise fit details.

Qualifications

• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment with cross-functional collaboration.
• Elevated sense of style, aesthetic, and color
• Strong knowledge of silhouette, fit, and trim; garment construction concepts

Responsibilities

• Research global markets to identify seasonal trends, silhouettes, fabrics, and techniques.
• Develop concepts and sketches for product line and present to leadership and partners
• Foster cross-functional relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical design, GIS, Visual Merchandising, and Marketing
• Create tech packs and communicate fit/design vision to ensure execution, quality, and margins
• Communicate complex concepts clearly and simply
• Participate in diverse projects and maintain sketch updates and specs (trims, washes)

Skills

Concept development

Fashion illustration

Brand alignment

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Microsoft Excel

Job description

About the Role

In this role, you will work in an energizing, inclusive, and creative environment focused on concepting and creating sustainable product that exceeds customers’ expectations. Your goal is to partner with cross functional team members who collectively are responsible for ensuring that the product style, fit, and quality are more than worth the price for our customers. Responsibilities include participating in the conceptual development of the product line and ensuring product is consistent with market trends and brand strategies. Must lean into risk taking and be customer curious!

What You’ll Do

• Research global markets in order to identify new seasonal trends, silhouettes, fabrics, techniques, product categories and competitive inspiration.

• Develop concepts and sketches for product line and advocates for design ideas by presenting to internal leadership and cross functional partners .

• Develop strong internal cross functional relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical design, Gap Inc Sourcing (GIS), Visual Merchandising and Marketing to ensure product concept to store and site execution is a seamless experience.

• Partner with Production and Tech Design to create tech packs and communicate vision behind fit and product design, ensuring execution, quality, and desired margin targets are achieved.

• Able to communicate difficult concepts in a simple manner

• Participate in projects and assignments of diverse scope.

• Responsible for sketch callouts and communicating desired fit and aesthetic to tech design and maintaining sketch updates and specifications (i.e. trims, wash, etc..)

Who You Are

• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment, with the ability to juggle multiple seasons at one time and track development deadlines

• Possess an elevated sense of style, aesthetic, and color and understand how to translate trends through the lens of the customer and brand filter

• Thorough knowledge of silhouette, fit, fabrication, construction, color use, sewing techniques, and trim; applied knowledge of garment construction methods to design process.

• Strong computer knowledge including Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel

• Present problem analysis and recommended solutions in a creative and logical manner