Designer, Kids + Baby Accessories

Gap Inc; San Francisco (CA); Vor Ort; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Gap Inc. is seeking a creative designer who thrives in a fast-paced environment to lead concepting and styling for a key product category.

You will partner with Merchandising, Production, GIS, Visual Merchandising and Marketing to ensure a seamless customer experience from concept through store execution. You will translate global trends into market-ready product, manage tech packs and fit, and select fabrics and trims to meet design and margin targets.

Qualifikationen

• Experience translating trends into customer-ready product.
• Ability to manage multiple seasons and deadlines.
• Strong eye for silhouette, fit, color, and fabrication.

Aufgaben

• Research global markets to identify seasonal trends and inspiration.
• Develop concepts and sketches; present to leadership and partners.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with Merchandising, Production, GIS, Visual Merchandising, and Marketing.
• Influence strategy for product area and edits to line to meet business needs.
• Partner with Production and Tech Design to create tech packs and communicate fit and quality.
• Identify sketch callouts and clearly communicate fit and aesthetic to teams.
• Select fabrics and trims to align with design vision and margins.

Kenntnisse

Fashion design

Trend analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong visual sense

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Microsoft Excel

Jobbeschreibung

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. You will manage the design process from market research and conception through to product design and final styling for your assigned product category. 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 advocate 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 customer experience
• Influence strategy for product area, providing recommendations regarding seasonal themes and edits to line, ensuring product meets business and customer needs.
• 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.
• Build cross functional partnerships and consensus, identifying sketch callouts and communicating desired fit and aesthetic to cross functional team.
• Responsible for fabric and trim selection.

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
• Strong computer knowledge including Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel
• Ability to assess relatively complex situations and analyze data to make judgments and recommend solutions