Designer, Men's Apparel

Boot Barn; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Boot Barn is seeking a Designer for Men’s Apparel to drive ideation and execution of product development across multiple brands. The role focuses on refining trends into viable men’s apparel and creating comprehensive tech packs for production.

The Designer will translate brand strategies into in-store assortments, collaborate with styling, sourcing, and production teams, and ensure alignment with profitability and brand equity goals.

Qualifications

• Design commercially viable products.
• Refine trend and translate trends to products and assortments.
• Develop tech packs with details for vendors and factories.

Responsibilities

• Engage in market and sales analysis to get a sense of trends and needs for target consumers.
• Design commercially viable products.
• Create seasonal presentations with trend inspiration, silhouettes, fit, functional features, embroidery, trims, and color palettes.
• Ensure all assortments deliver consistent color, trend, and creative direction across targeted lifestyle to ensure branding positioning and brand equity objectives are intact.
• Research, design and develop raw materials, fabric, print development, graphic design and trim within time and action calendar.
• Create and manage Line Sheets and Tech packs including sketch including multiple views and details, colorways, construction details, and complete bill of materials, distributing tech packs to vendor, factory or agent that can achieve roadmap requirements, IMU and general profitability.
• Actively participate in fit sessions, update sketches, design comments and tech packs promptly with needed revisions.
• Communicate with sourcing partners/factories all details of product utilizing complete Tech Packs, commenting on lab dips, print and graphic, hand looms, strike offs, knit downs while hitting all deadlines in order to adhere to timelines.
• Track all prototypes & pre-production samples utilizing the communicate (WIPs) dates and calendars.
• Partner with Production/Sourcing to ensure fabric, design details, and garments are within cost parameters while providing value to the apparel collection.
• Manage style hand off to Product Manager (hand off final production Tech Packs, files, and approvals).

Skills

Market analysis

Product design

Trend forecasting

Tech packs

Tools

Illustrator

Photoshop

CAD

Job description

DESIGNER - MEN’S APPAREL

REPORTS TO: DIRECTOR OF TREND, CONCEPT, & INNOVATION

STATUS: EXEMPT

Summary

Boot Barn is where community comes first. We thrive on togetherness, collaboration, and belonging. We build each other up, listen intently, and implement out-of-the-box ideas. We celebrate new innovations, congratulate one another’s achievements, and most importantly support each other. At Boot Barn, we work together to make a positive impact on the world around us, and by working collectively with encouragement, we consider ourselves “Partners.” With the values of the West guiding us, Boot Barn celebrates heritage, welcomes all, and values each unique Partner within our Boot Barn community. Our vision is to offer everyone a piece of the American spirit - one handshake at a time. The Designer - Men’s Apparel drives the ideation and execution of developing product for the men’s apparel areas across multiple brands and categories. Primary responsibility is to refine the trend, vision, translate trends to products, items and assortment opportunities. The Designer - Men’s Apparel will understand the brand strategies and financial goals to ensure that overall product development and direction delivers in-store consumer driven programs that are competitive and differentiated by brand.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Engage in market and sales analysis to get a sense of trends and needs for target consumers.
• Design commercially viable products.
• Create seasonal presentations with trend inspiration, silhouettes, fit, functional features, embroidery, trims, and color palettes.
• Ensure all assortments deliver consistent color, trend, and creative direction across targeted lifestyle to ensure branding positioning and brand equity objectives are intact.
• Research, design and develop raw materials, fabric, print development, graphic design and trim within time and action calendar.
• Create and manage Line Sheets and Tech packs including sketch including multiple views and details, colorways, construction details, and complete bill of materials, distributing tech packs to vendor, factory or agent that can achieve roadmap requirements, IMU and general profitability.
• Actively participate in fit sessions, update sketches, design comments and tech packs promptly with needed revisions.
• Communicate with sourcing partners/factories all details of product utilizing complete Tech Packs, commenting on lab dips, print and graphic, hand looms, strike offs, knit downs while hitting all deadlines in order to adhere to timelines.
• Track all prototypes & pre-production samples utilizing the communicate (WIPs) dates and calendars.
• Partner with Production/Sourcing to ensure fabric, design details, and garments are within cost parameters while providing value to the apparel collection.
• Manage style hand off to Product Manager (hand off final production Tech Packs, files, and approvals).

Additional Responsibilities

• Demonstrates high degree of professionalism in communication, attitude and teamwork with customers, peers and management
• Demonstrates high level of quality work, attendance and appearance
• Adheres to all Company Policies & Procedures and Safety Regulations
• Adheres to local, state and federal laws
• Performs any other duties that may be assigned by management
• Understands and complies with all company rules and regulations