Hybrid Design Assistant — Color, Mood Boards & Docs

Z Supply Inc.; Costa Mesa (CA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Half-day Friday's

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401k with company match

New chic offices near restaurants

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Z SUPPLY INC. in Costa Mesa, CA invites a Design Assistant to join our creative team. You will work with the Design Director and Merchandising & Design teams across development season tasks and maintain fabric/color libraries, inspiration, and proto samples.

The role supports documentation and color palette creation for seasonal lines. Ideal candidates bring 1–2+ years of related experience, strong Illustrator/Photoshop skills, Google Workspace, and familiarity with PLM systems.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Illustrator and Photoshop; Google Workspace experience preferred.
• Super organized and detail oriented.
• 1-2+ years of related experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist with sketch updates including color and/or print updates as well as detail and trim updates.
• Assist Design Director/M&D Team with seasonal documents
• Create, update and maintain seasonal R&D documents
• Create, update and maintain production handover documents for each division
• Create, update and maintain product description documents for each division and work with Ecomm and Sales team to see the document through process
• Create, update and maintain seasonal color palettes - both digital and physical
• Compiling KEY color trend directions utilizing multiple forecasting platforms and runway
• Keeping color samples updated, organized and in delivery order
• Pulling Pantone options to color match to bought samples, mood boards, etc.
• Calibrating color palette to match Pantones and or samples
• Creating all files for seasonal color palette and adding pantone information
• Researching color name ideas and assessing if names are available on Full Circle
• Assist Product Development team by preparing new fabric development swatches each season and building and maintaining seasonal fabric books with vendor details for dept referencing fabric.
• Assist Design Team with seasonal style name by cross checking new names on our website, B2Z, and style number doc and keep style name list up to date
• Helping to create digital or physical mood boards when needed
• Assist Design Director and PD team to prep for key seasonal milestone meetings
• Assist PD team with gathering and organizing proto samples, lab dips and strike offs
• Organize and maintain Inspiration samples
• Perform other various duties for Design Director and Department as needed

Skills

Illustrator

Photoshop

Google Workspace

Centric PLM

Full Circle

Job description

Z SUPPLY INC. in Costa Mesa, CA invites a Design Assistant to join our creative team. You will work with the Design Director and Merchandising & Design teams across development season tasks and maintain fabric/color libraries, inspiration, and proto samples.

The role supports documentation and color palette creation for seasonal lines. Ideal candidates bring 1–2+ years of related experience, strong Illustrator/Photoshop skills, Google Workspace, and familiarity with PLM systems.