Hybrid Design Assistant: Color, Palettes & Mood Boards

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

Benefits offered by this job

Half-day Fridays

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K with company match

Modern, central offices

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Z SUPPLY is seeking a Design Assistant to work closely with the Design Director and M&D team across development season tasks. You will manage fabric and color libraries, create seasonal documents, and support color palettes with Pantone matching and forecast data.

The role is full-time, hybrid in-office with four days on site and one day remote, offering a base salary between $60,000 and $68,000 annually plus benefits. Collaboration and organizational skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Illustrator, Photoshop and Google Workspace.
• Centric PLM and Full Circle experience a plus.
• Super organized and detail oriented.
• Excellent team player with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams.
• 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

Tools

Centric PLM

Full Circle

Job description

Z SUPPLY is seeking a Design Assistant to work closely with the Design Director and M&D team across development season tasks. You will manage fabric and color libraries, create seasonal documents, and support color palettes with Pantone matching and forecast data.

The role is full-time, hybrid in-office with four days on site and one day remote, offering a base salary between $60,000 and $68,000 annually plus benefits. Collaboration and organizational skills are essential for success.