Associate Designer Womens Wovens

FashionUnited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

FashionUnited seeks a creative designer to concept and develop sustainable product lines that resonate with customers and brand strategy. You will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure style, fit, and quality meet market expectations while embracing risk and customer curiosity.

Responsibilities include researching global trends, developing concepts, and collaborating with Merchandising, Production, and GIS to execute concepts from sketch to store.

Qualifications

• Experience translating market trends into brand-appropriate designs.
• Ability to sketch and present design concepts to leadership and partners.
• Strong collaboration with Merchandising, Production, Technical Design, GIS, Visual Merchandising and Marketing.
• Create tech packs and communicate fit and aesthetic details.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly.
• Manage multiple seasons and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Research global markets to identify seasonal trends, silhouettes, fabrics, techniques, product categories and competitive inspiration.
• Develop concepts and sketches for product line and advocate for design ideas by presenting to internal leadership and cross functional partners.
• Build strong internal cross-functional relationships to ensure seamless concept to store/site execution.
• Partner with Production and Tech Design to create tech packs and communicate vision for fit and product design.
• Communicate difficult concepts in a simple manner.
• Participate in projects and assignments of diverse scope.
• Maintain sketch callouts and specifications (trims, wash, etc.).

Skills

Trend research

Concept development

Presentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

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