Men’s Apparel Design Specialist

Boot Barn; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Boot Barn is seeking a Designer for Men’s Apparel to drive ideation and execution of product development across multiple brands. The role focuses on refining trends into viable men’s apparel and creating comprehensive tech packs for production.

The Designer will translate brand strategies into in-store assortments, collaborate with styling, sourcing, and production teams, and ensure alignment with profitability and brand equity goals.

Qualifications

• Design commercially viable products.
• Refine trend and translate trends to products and assortments.
• Develop tech packs with details for vendors and factories.

Responsibilities

• Engage in market and sales analysis to get a sense of trends and needs for target consumers.
• Design commercially viable products.
• Create seasonal presentations with trend inspiration, silhouettes, fit, functional features, embroidery, trims, and color palettes.
• Ensure all assortments deliver consistent color, trend, and creative direction across targeted lifestyle to ensure branding positioning and brand equity objectives are intact.
• Research, design and develop raw materials, fabric, print development, graphic design and trim within time and action calendar.
• Create and manage Line Sheets and Tech packs including sketch including multiple views and details, colorways, construction details, and complete bill of materials, distributing tech packs to vendor, factory or agent that can achieve roadmap requirements, IMU and general profitability.
• Actively participate in fit sessions, update sketches, design comments and tech packs promptly with needed revisions.
• Communicate with sourcing partners/factories all details of product utilizing complete Tech Packs, commenting on lab dips, print and graphic, hand looms, strike offs, knit downs while hitting all deadlines in order to adhere to timelines.
• Track all prototypes & pre-production samples utilizing the communicate (WIPs) dates and calendars.
• Partner with Production/Sourcing to ensure fabric, design details, and garments are within cost parameters while providing value to the apparel collection.
• Manage style hand off to Product Manager (hand off final production Tech Packs, files, and approvals).

Skills

Market analysis

Product design

Trend forecasting

Tech packs

Tools

Illustrator

Photoshop

CAD

Job description

Boot Barn is seeking a Designer for Men’s Apparel to drive ideation and execution of product development across multiple brands. The role focuses on refining trends into viable men’s apparel and creating comprehensive tech packs for production.

The Designer will translate brand strategies into in-store assortments, collaborate with styling, sourcing, and production teams, and ensure alignment with profitability and brand equity goals.