Fashion Designer: Trend-Driven, Collaborative & Impactful

Centric Brands; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) matching

Summer Fridays

Generous PTO

Merchandise discounts

Career development

Job summary

Centric Brands is seeking a Designer to contribute to seasonal design development for women’s and men’s apparel, including outdoor performance fabrics. You will collaborate with technical design, production, and external vendors to convert concepts into finished products.

The ideal candidate has 4–7 years of apparel design experience, strong sketching skills, and proficiency in CAD and Adobe Creative Suite.

Qualifications

• Experience in women’s and men’s apparel and understanding of outdoor performance fabrics and trends across categories.
• Superior organizational and communication skills; team oriented.
• Ability to multi-task, meet deadlines, and be highly detail oriented, creative.
• Creativity, technical capability and merchandising sensibility; ability to sketch.
• Extensive knowledge of garment construction, pattern making, silhouettes, colorways, sewing techniques, fabrication and trim.
• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design and 4–7 years apparel design experience focusing on women’s apparel.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Adobe products, CAD and Mac computers.

Responsibilities

• Execute seasonal design development from concept to delivery for Merrell, ensuring timely progression through stages.
• Design according to style plans, sales needs and trends; maintain product development calendars.
• Create Illustrator sketches; review specs and line sheets; manage PLM system or shared drives.
• Review lab dips with seniors; ensure color consistency with standards and licensor directives.
• Coordinate with internal/external customers, vendors and teams; maintain cross-functional communication.
• Lead and develop junior team members; contribute to a collaborative team environment.

Skills

Women’s & Men’s apparel

Organizational skills

Multitask & detail-oriented

Sketching

Merchandising sense

Fabric knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Design

Tools

CAD

Adobe Creative Suite

Microsoft Office

Mac proficiency

Job description

Centric Brands is seeking a Designer to contribute to seasonal design development for women’s and men’s apparel, including outdoor performance fabrics. You will collaborate with technical design, production, and external vendors to convert concepts into finished products.

The ideal candidate has 4–7 years of apparel design experience, strong sketching skills, and proficiency in CAD and Adobe Creative Suite.