Freelance Hosiery & Socks Designer

Li & Fung; New York (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible freelance arrangement

Job summary

Li & Fung is seeking an experienced Freelance Hosiery & Socks Designer to support a key Private Label customer in New York. You will design seasonal collections across socks, hosiery, and legwear while collaborating with Product Development and overseas factories.

The role requires 5+ years of relevant design experience, strong CAD and presentation skills, and proficiency in Illustrator/Photoshop. This freelance position offers an hourly rate between $40 and $55.

Qualifications

• 5+ years design experience in socks, hosiery, tights, stockings, or legwear.
• Experience designing for Private Label retail customers.
• Strong understanding of sock and hosiery construction, yarns, knitting techniques, materials, and product development.
• Experience developing patterns, prints, graphics, and seasonal color assortments for socks and hosiery.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Microsoft Office.
• Strong communication, organization, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and seasonal deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design seasonal collections across hosiery and sock categories, including fashion socks, tights, stockings, and other legwear.
• Research fashion trends, colors, materials, yarns, patterns, textures, and consumer insights to develop customer-focused assortments.
• Create CADs, technical sketches, artwork, prints, patterns, colorways, and presentation boards for customer meetings.
• Develop products that align with the customer's brand identity, target retail pricing, and quality standards.
• Partner with Product Development, Merchandising, and overseas factories throughout the sample development process.
• Review prototypes and sample submissions and provide design comments to ensure fit, appearance, construction, and quality meet customer expectations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage seasonal calendars and ensure timely execution of product development milestones.
• Support customer presentations and respond to design revisions and feedback throughout the development process.
• Stay current on fashion trends, competitive retail offerings, and innovations within the hosiery, socks, and legwear markets.

Skills

Design experience in hosiery

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Presentation skills

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Microsoft Office

Job description

Are you a movement maker? Are you seeking new and exciting career opportunities? Here is what you need to know about the job: We are seeking an experienced Freelance Hosiery & Socks Designer to support one of our key Private Label customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design seasonal collections across hosiery and sock categories, including fashion socks, tights, stockings, and other legwear.
• Research fashion trends, colors, materials, yarns, patterns, textures, and consumer insights to develop customer-focused assortments.
• Create CADs, technical sketches, artwork, prints, patterns, colorways, and presentation boards for customer meetings.
• Develop products that align with the customer's brand identity, target retail pricing, and quality standards.
• Partner with Product Development, Merchandising, and overseas factories throughout the sample development process.
• Review prototypes and sample submissions and provide design comments to ensure fit, appearance, construction, and quality meet customer expectations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage seasonal calendars and ensure timely execution of product development milestones.
• Support customer presentations and respond to design revisions and feedback throughout the development process.
• Stay current on fashion trends, competitive retail offerings, and innovations within the hosiery, socks, and legwear markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of design experience in socks, hosiery, tights, stockings, or related legwear categories.
• Experience designing for Private Label retail customers.
• Strong understanding of sock and hosiery construction, yarns, knitting techniques, materials, and product development.
• Experience developing patterns, prints, graphics, and seasonal color assortments for socks and hosiery.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Microsoft Office.
• Strong communication, organization, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and seasonal deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Compensation/Benefits The approximate hourly rate range for this freelance position is $40.00–$55.00 per hour. The offered hourly rate will vary based on role requirements, skill set, and years of experience.

As an equal opportunity employer, we shall consider all applicants regardless of gender, age, religion, marital status, race, sexual orientation, disability, disease, pregnancy, or trade union and/or political affiliation, and disregard all factors deemed inappropriate by local law and the International Labor Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

Fung Group is a pioneer for the consumer goods supply chain. With a rich history in import and export trading and global supply chain management dating back to 1906, our core businesses operate across the entire global supply chain for consumer goods including trading, logistics, distribution and retail. Today, we are focused on advancing new, disruptive technologies shaping the future of supply chains and exploring new opportunities for business growth through strategic innovation in retailing, new products, services or markets. Across Fung Group, our core values of entrepreneurship, being humble and acting as one family, form the basis for our culture, business strategies and brand.