Sr. Manager, Digital Technical Design

Rhone; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health, dental, vision, and ancillary

401(k) with company incentive savings

10 company holidays annually

Discretionary time off policy

Career growth and advancement

Clothing discount plus semi-annualGift

Job summary

Rhone Apparel, Inc in Stamford, CT, is seeking a Sr. Manager, Digital Technical Design to lead the CLO 3D and 3D design function, defining strategy, standards, and team processes for how the brand designs, fits, and visualizes product in a virtual environment before production.

The role partners with Design, Merchandising, PCC, and overseas teams, mentoring CLO 3D experts, and driving 3D-first development while balancing physical sampling and workflow optimization to deliver assets on time.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical design with CLO 3D or similar software.
• Experience leading or mentoring a team and setting standards.
• Strong garment construction, pattern making, and fit judgment.
• Balance strategic ownership with hands-on involvement.
• Collaborate across Design, Merchandising, Production, PCC teams.
• Curiosity and willingness to pilot new tools and iterate.
• Familiarity with PLM systems and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead CLO 3D experts and set technical standards, with career paths.
• Define 3D strategy for gender, stages: Concept to Commercialization.
• Bridge HQ digital fit with PCC team to avoid duplication.
• Translate Quality Stages into practice with clear hand-offs.
• Align 3D outputs with design, merchandising, and GTM timelines.
• Manage digital asset library across categories and seasons.
• Track cycle time, sample counts, and fit-approval metrics.
• Stay current on advances and pilot new tools.
• Ensure 3D output translates to physical samples with quality.

Skills

CLO 3D / 3D design

Team leadership / mentoring

Garment construction / pattern making

Workflow strategy / technology roadmap

Cross-functional collaboration

Curiosity / experiment mindset

PLM familiarity

Adobe Creative Suite

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Centric PLM (or PLM systems)

Adobe Creative Suite

CLO 3D (tool)

Job description

Who We Are

At Rhone, we cultivate a work culture that is empowering and rooted in our core values. We are gritty, approaching challenges with resilience and determination. We are responsible, holding ourselves accountable to each other and the work we do. We strive for excellence, pushing boundaries to deliver our best every day. We remain authentic, embracing honesty, humility, and individuality. And above all, we are team centered, knowing that true success comes from collaboration and shared purpose.

Description

At Rhone, we cultivate a work culture that is empowering and rooted in our core values. We are gritty, approaching challenges with resilience and determination. We are responsible, holding ourselves accountable to each other and the work we do. We strive for excellence, pushing boundaries to deliver our best every day. We remain authentic, embracing honesty, humility, and individuality. And above all, we are team centered, knowing that true success comes from collaboration and shared purpose.

About The Role

The Sr. Manager, Digital Technical Design leads Rhone’s 3D technical design function — owning the strategy, standards, and team behind how the brand designs, fits, and visualizes product in a virtual environment before it reaches a factory floor. This role leads the CLO 3D Expert(s) and is accountable for how deeply and effectively 3D is embedded across Rhone’s product creation process: determining which categories, styles, and development stages are best suited to 3D-first design, development, and commercialization, and where physical execution still leads. Equal parts technologist, team leader, and process owner, this person partners closely with Design, Merchandising, and the PCC Technical Design team so that digital work created at HQ carries cleanly into physical production — and champions the tools, training, and workflow improvements that let Rhone get more out of 3D every season. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who understands both the craft of 3D garment development and the operational realities of building performance apparel at scale, and who is genuinely curious about how far the technology can take the brand.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop the CLO 3D Expert(s) / 3D Technical Designer team — setting technical standards, providing hands-on guidance in CLO 3D pattern making and virtual fitting, and building a clear career path for the discipline.
• Own Rhone’s 3D technical design strategy for assigned gender: define which product categories, styles, and development stages — Concept, Realization, Commercialization — are best suited to 3D-first design, development, and commercialization versus traditional physical sampling, and evolve that approach as the business and technology mature.
• Act as the connective layer between HQ digital fit development and the PCC Technical Designer team — clarifying where 3D work is owned by the brand and where it hands off to in-country pattern development and production readiness, so nothing is duplicated.
• Partner with the Director, Technical Design and PCC leadership to translate the Quality Stages framework into practice — clarifying ownership, decision rights, and hand-off criteria between HQ and PCC at each stage of development.
• Partner with Design, Merchandising, and GTM teams to align 3D outputs — colorways, prints, styling, avatars, fabric simulation — with brand aesthetic and go-to-market timelines.
• Build and govern Rhone’s digital asset library (avatars, block patterns, trims, fabric simulations) as a shared, brand-wide resource, ensuring consistency and reuse across categories and seasons.
• Champion a continuous improvement mindset for the 3D workflow — track cycle time, sample count, and fit-approval metrics, identify friction points, and lead process changes that make 3D development faster and more reliable each season, including enabling digital sell tools.
• Stay current on advances in 3D design, virtual fitting, and digital sampling technology; evaluate and pilot new tools or capabilities that could expand what Rhone can achieve digitally, bringing a genuinely curious, test-and-learn approach to where the technology is headed.
• Set and monitor quality standards for 3D output, ensuring digital garments — specs, BOMs, fit — translate accurately to physical samples and reduce rework downstream.
• Represent the digital technical design function in cross-functional planning, communicating progress, risks, and opportunities to Design, Merchandising, Production, and senior leadership.

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of technical design experience, including meaningful hands-on experience in CLO 3D or comparable 3D design / pattern-making software.
• Prior experience leading, managing, or mentoring a team, with the ability to set technical standards and develop talent.
• Strong foundation in garment construction, pattern making, and fit standards for performance apparel, with the judgment to know when 3D is the right tool and when it isn’t.
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic ownership — workflow, standards, technology roadmap — with hands-on technical involvement.
• Experience partnering across Design, Merchandising, Production, and overseas / PCC teams, with the communication skills to align stakeholders with different priorities.
• A genuinely curious, improvement-oriented mindset — comfortable questioning existing process, piloting new tools, and iterating based on results.
• Familiarity with PLM systems (Centric or equivalent) and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

What You'll Get

• Competitive compensation
• Health, dental, vision, and ancillary benefits
• 401(k) with company incentive savings plan
• 10 company holidays annually
• Discretionary time off policy
• Career growth and advancement opportunities
• Clothing discount plus semi-annual gift card allotment

Other Details

• Job Type: Full Time
• Reports to: Director, Technical Design
• Location: Onsite – Based in Stamford, CT

Our Commitment

Rhone Apparel, Inc is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status.