Director of Creative Design Vision & Color Trends

Banana Republic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 173,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Merchandise discount

Generous PTO

Volunteer hours

401(k) with match

Employee stock purchase plan

Health, dental, vision insurance

Job summary

Banana Republic is seeking a Director of Design Concept, Color & Trend to define the seasonal creative vision across the brand. You translate global signals into a distinctive POV and lead the design, merchandising, and product teams to ensure cohesive execution.

Ideal candidates demonstrate exceptional taste, deep fashion instinct, and proven experience guiding creative talent while influencing senior leaders and cross-functional partners to deliver commercially relevant concepts.

Qualifications

• Exceptional taste and innate fashion instinct for direction-setting.
• Obsessed with fashion and continuously tracking runway and cultural signals.
• Ability to translate trend intelligence into a clear brand POV.
• Experience leading and developing creative talent across teams.

Responsibilities

• Set overarching seasonal concept and creative direction across brand.
• Identify macro/micro trends and distill signals for the brand vision.
• Lead presentations that align senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Partner with Design, Merchandising and Product Development to translate concepts.
• Influence fabric, color, print directions to match the seasonal vision.
• Build and develop a high-performing design team.

Skills

Fashion instinct

Trend analysis

Leadership

Creative storytelling

Cross-functional influence

Job description

Banana Republic is seeking a Director of Design Concept, Color & Trend to define the seasonal creative vision across the brand. You translate global signals into a distinctive POV and lead the design, merchandising, and product teams to ensure cohesive execution.

Ideal candidates demonstrate exceptional taste, deep fashion instinct, and proven experience guiding creative talent while influencing senior leaders and cross-functional partners to deliver commercially relevant concepts.