Senior Technical Design Manager

Manière De Voir; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Employee discount

Paid time off

Job summary

Manière De Voir Ltd in New York City is seeking a senior technical designer to ensure every garment lands exactly as designed across sizes and factories. You will translate design into production, owning specs, fit, grading, and construction from proto to top-of-production.

Reporting to the VP of Production & Supply Chain, you will build tech packs, maintain blocks and standards, and partner with overseas factories to fix issues at root cause.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical design at premium, contemporary, or luxury fashion brand.
• Expert in womens wovens and dresses; tailoring and structured garments a strong plus.
• You lead fittings and make confident final fit decisions.
• Strong patternmaking, grading, and construction knowledge.
• Fluent in PLM, Illustrator, and Excel; Gerber/AccuMark or CLO 3D a plus.
• Based in New York City and ready to be on-site.

Responsibilities

• Run live-model and form fittings; make final fit calls and write clear fit comments to factories.
• Build and maintain tech packs, points of measure, grade rules, and tolerances from concept through bulk.
• Create the MDV block library and construction standards for consistent silhouettes across seasons and suppliers.
• Work directly with overseas and nearshore factories to fix fit, construction, and quality issues at root cause.
• Use fit-related return reasons and customer feedback to correct patterns and specs before the next buy.

Skills

Technical design

Womens dresses

Patternmaking

Grading

Construction knowledge

Fittings leadership

PLM

Illustrator

Excel

Tools

Gerber

AccuMark

CLO 3D

Browzwear

Job description

Manière De Voir – French for "way of seeing" – is a $65M self-funded contemporary fashion brand. Profitable and growing at high double digits annually. No investors, no board, no committee.

Four owned retail locations, with a fifth opening – London (Oxford Street, Battersea, and Westfield White City opening), New York (SoHo Broadway), and Dubai (Dubai Mall) – with LA and Chicago in active development. Wholesale through Nordstrom and Farfetch. The rest is DTC.

The product is structured and architectural. No visible logos – the work speaks through silhouette and fabrication. Dresses are the growth engine: a 60-style annual range across four lanes, priced $220–$475.

The Role

When the product has no logo, fit is the brand. You make sure every garment lands exactly as designed – in every size, from every factory, every time.

You own the technical translation of design into production: specs, fit, grading, and construction standards from first proto to approved top-of-production.

Scope – What You'll Own

• Fit – Run live-model and form fittings, make the final fit call, and write clear, actionable fit comments to factories. Dress is the hero category.
• Tech packs and specs – Build and maintain tech packs, points of measure, grade rules, and tolerances from concept through bulk, for wovens, jersey, and knits.
• Blocks and standards – Create the MDV block library and construction standards so structured silhouettes stay consistent across seasons, sizes, and suppliers.
• Factory partnership – Work directly with overseas and nearshore factories to fix fit, construction, and quality issues at the root cause, not sample by sample.
• Returns intelligence – Use fit-related return reasons and customer feedback to correct patterns and specs before the next buy.

The Team

You report to the VP, Production & Supply Chain (a new role), and to the CEO until that hire joins. You partner daily with Design, Product Development, and Production, and set the technical standard the function grows around.

How You'll Be Measured

• Fit-related return rate on styles you approved, down season over season
• Fittings per style to approval, and samples on time to the calendar, with Product Development and Production
• First-time-right top-of-production approvals
• Size and factory consistency on core blocks

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years in technical design at a premium, contemporary, or luxury fashion brand
• Expert in women's wovens and dresses; tailoring and structured garments a strong plus
• You lead fittings and make confident final fit decisions
• Strong patternmaking, grading, and construction knowledge
• Fluent in PLM, Illustrator, and Excel; Gerber/AccuMark or CLO 3D a plus
• Based in New York City and ready to be on-site

Preferred

• Experience scaling a contemporary brand's technical function through rapid growth
• 3D fit and digital sampling (CLO 3D, Browzwear) in a production pipeline
• Knitwear and jersey alongside wovens

Why This Role Is Different

No inherited bureaucracy, no investor pressure. You rebuild the MDV block library and set the fit standard for a brand scaling from $65M toward $150M+, and your calls go straight into production.

Compensation

Salary: $165,000–$185,000 base + bonus

• Benefits: contributed healthcare package, vision, dental, life insurance, employee discount, and paid annual leave with accrual scheme.

Visa sponsorship is available for this role.