Old Navy Senior Women's Concept Designer

Old Navy; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

50% off regular-priced merchandise

Competitive Paid Time Off

Volunteer hours each month

401(k) plan with company matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Medical, dental, vision and life insurance

Job summary

A major fashion retailer in San Francisco is seeking a skilled designer to develop concepts for their Female range. In this role, you will drive the design process from market research to final product styling, ensuring alignment with current trends and business strategies. The ideal candidate has a strong aesthetic sense, experience in collaborative environments, and proficiency in design tools like Adobe Creative Suite. This position also offers various employee benefits, including discounts and a competitive PTO plan.

Qualifications

• Experience in conceptual fashion design and product management.
• Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Create sustainable product concepts that exceed customer expectations.
• Drive the Female Concept Design process.
• Advocate for concept ideas to leadership.
• Ensure design direction aligns with trends and strategy.
• Develop relationships to ensure successful concept execution.

Skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Knowledge of fashion trends

Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite

Creative direction skills

Job description

About Old Navy

Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you’re choosing a different path. From day one, we’ve been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season. We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we’re family.

About The Role

In this role, you will work in an energizing, inclusive, and creative environment focused on concepting and creating sustainable product that exceeds customers’ expectations. Your goal is to partner with cross functional team members who collectively are responsible for ensuring that the product style, fit, and quality are more than worth the price for our customers. You will manage the design process from market research and conception through to product design and final styling for your assigned product category. Must lean into risk taking and be customer curious!

What You’ll Do

• Set overarching vision and conceptual development for the Old Navy Female range.
• Drive the Female Concept Design process, including market research, macro trend, theme direction, trend funnel creation and content delivery.
• Develop concept Themes, Big Ideas and reporting for the Female product range, advocate for concept ideas by presenting to internal leadership and cross functional partners.
• Ensure design direction is consistent with market trends as well as business strategy; interpret international and domestic concepts and fashion trends as they relate to market demands, company image and business strategy.
• Develop strong internal cross functional relationships to direct and ensure successful execution of concept content.
• Drive strategy for the Female product lines by providing recommendations regarding macro trends, seasonal themes, big ideas and key items, ensuring concept work supports business and customer needs.
• Collaborate and lead others in key concept and product initiatives and their implementation.
• Provide creative direction and coaching to develop a motivated, high performing team.

Who You Are

• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment, with the agility to juggle multiple seasons at one time and track individual and team workflow and deadlines.
• Possess an elevated sense of style, aesthetic, and color and understand how to translate trends through the lens of the customer and brand filter.
• Thorough knowledge of concept for fashion from Theme to Big Idea and Key Items.
• Proven experience in high quality, clear and inspirational mood boards and trend decks; computer knowledge including Adobe Creative Suite.
• Can evaluate complex situations using multiple internal and external sources.
• Ability to filter, prioritize, analyze, and validate complex, in-depth concepts and procedures.
• Understands broader conceptual impacts across merchandising and product development.

Benefits at Old Navy

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*
• Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.*
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.*
• Employee stock purchase plan.*
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*
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