Senior Designer: Collaborations & Partnerships Lead

Gap; New York (NY); On-site; USD 111,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Merchandise discount

Paid time off

Volunteer hours

401(k) matching

Employee stock purchase

Health insurance

Job summary

Gap Inc. in New York seeks a visionary senior designer to set global design direction for a product line and lead a cross‑functional team to deliver compelling, customer‑centric styles.

You will partner with Merchandising, Production, Tech Design, GIS, Visual Merchandising and Marketing to ensure a seamless end‑to‑end concept to store execution. You will push boundaries while staying true to Gap’s American heritage.

Qualifications

• Experience translating trends into product concepts.
• Ability to manage multiple seasons and deadlines.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with merchandising, production, and marketing.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction for product area and team.
• Provide creative direction and coaching to develop a motivated, high performing team.
• Research global markets to identify new seasonal trends, silhouettes, fabrics, techniques, product categories and competitive inspiration.
• Develop concepts and sketches for product line and advocate for design ideas by presenting to internal leadership and cross functional partners.
• Develop strong internal cross functional relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical design, GIS, Visual Merchandising and Marketing to ensure product concept to store and site execution is a seamless customer experience.
• Partner with Production and Tech Design to create tech packs and communicate vision behind fit and product design, ensuring execution, quality, and desired margin targets are achieved.
• Collaborate and lead others in key design and product initiatives and their implementation.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Trend analysis

Style sense

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Gap Inc. in New York seeks a visionary senior designer to set global design direction for a product line and lead a cross‑functional team to deliver compelling, customer‑centric styles.

You will partner with Merchandising, Production, Tech Design, GIS, Visual Merchandising and Marketing to ensure a seamless end‑to‑end concept to store execution. You will push boundaries while staying true to Gap’s American heritage.