Style Director

Socket.dev; Costa Mesa (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Half-Day Fridays

Clothing discount

Modern offices near restaurants and sh

Comprehensive benefits package (health

401K with employer match

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Z SUPPLY is seeking an experienced Style Director to own the brand’s visual identity across campaigns, e-commerce, social, wholesale, and events. This role sits at the intersection of brand storytelling, product design, and content, driving cohesive styling that aligns with the brand’s voice.

The role requires a strong vision plus execution, partnering with Creative, Design, Merchandising, and Marketing to translate design direction into a unified visual world.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of styling experience in fashion with a portfolio showing evolved aesthetic across brands/seasons.
• Deep familiarity with women's lifestyle, casual and contemporary fashion and the Z SUPPLY brand.
• Proven experience leading styling across campaigns, e-commerce, social, and wholesale.

Responsibilities

• Lead styling for all brand campaigns, e-commerce photography, and social content from pre-production to on-set execution and post-production review.
• Oversee styling for social content, ensuring consistency across TikTok, Instagram, influencer content, and briefs.
• Manage external freelance stylists and wardrobe assistants in partnership with Production.
• Review and approve all creative output for styling consistency before publication.
• Maintain and develop the brand's prop and styling archive reflecting Z SUPPLY’s visual world.
• Ensure key category and product investments and major launches are represented across campaigns and channels.
• Partner with Marketing and E-commerce to evaluate performance and refine styling direction.

Skills

Styling

Brand identity

Campaign styling

E-commerce styling

Leadership

Job description

Z SUPPLY | Style Director

REPORTS TO:VP Creative + Operations. Dotted line reporting to Design Director.

Works in close partnership with Creative Marketing, Design, Merchandising, E-commerce, and Wholesale.

Z SUPPLY is an established California Women’s lifestyle apparel brand that is leading the space for casual, comfortable style. Located in the heart of Orange County, we are passionate about staying true to our roots and living a life of good vibes in and out of the office. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Buyer to join our Buying team.

The Role

Z SUPPLY is hiring its first-ever Style Director — a newly created role that reflects where the brand is going, not just where it's been. This is not a shoot stylist. This is a brand architect.

This role will own the visual and stylistic identity of Z SUPPLY across every touchpoint: campaigns, e-commerce, social, wholesale, editorial, events, and product. They will work at the intersection of brand storytelling, product design, and content — ensuring that everything Z SUPPLY puts into the world looks, feels, and moves as one coherent brand.

This role works in close partnership with the Creative, Design, Merchandising, and Marketing. This role requires a style visionary and an executor — setting the direction and ensuring its execution.

What You'll Own

Brand Style Identity & Direction

• Establish a clear, ownable styling POV that distinguishes the brand from its peers in the casual lifestyle space.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive Brand Style Guide that governs how Z SUPPLY product looks across all channels: styling, color, texture, silhouette, composition, and overall visual world.
• Ensure that customers experience a cohesive Z SUPPLY brand - from the way the product is designed and styled to how it appears online, in boutiques, at events, and across marketing channels.
• Partner with Design and Creative/Marketing to translate seasonal design direction into a cohesive visual brand point of view - from mood boards and concept development through to final execution.
• Identify emerging trends, cultural shifts, and competitor movements synthesizing them into actionable direction that keeps Z SUPPLY relevant
• Drive operational excellence through effective planning, prioritization, and execution across multiple concurrent campaigns, shoots, launches, and channel needs while meeting critical deadlines.

Product Obsession & Creative Development

• Be the brand's most obsessive product eye - deeply understanding each season’s line - from fit, fabrication, and design intent of every piece - translating that into styling choices that serve both brand definition and sell-through.
• Partner with Merchandising, Design, and Marketing to identify both product gaps and product priorities and hero categories — informed by trend, category definition, past performance — anchoring seasonal storytelling, integrated campaigns, and monthly go-to-market planning.
• Partner with Product and Merchandising throughout the seasonal design process to bring styling and consumer perspective to silhouette, color palette, fabrication, and assortment decisions.
• Contribute to how product is photographed, styled, and presented – from wholesale to e-commerce - to tell a compelling story. Champion the idea that how a product is styled is inseparable from how it sells.
• Attend key product reviews and stay aligned with Design and Merchandising on seasonal readiness, product flow, and sample availability - ensuring creative timing alignment each season
• Identify opportunities to redefine how core and hero products are presented; elevating basics and essentials through styling choices that feel fresh and intentional, not generic.

Campaign, E-Commerce & Content Execution

• Lead styling for all brand campaigns, e-commerce photography, and social content — from pre-production (pre-styles, mood development) through on-set execution and post-production review, managing looks and outfit composition on-set with photographers and creative teams.
• Oversee styling for all social content creation, ensuring that TikTok, Instagram, influencer, talent briefs + content reflect the same aesthetic sensibility
• Manage external freelance stylists, wardrobe assistants as needed (in partnership with Production)
• Review and approve all creative output for styling consistency before publication — serving as the final eye on visual assets that carry the brand.
• Manage and continuously develop the brand's prop and styling archive — fabrics, textures, objects, and styling elements that reflect Z SUPPLY’s visual world.
• Ensure key category + product investments, and major launches are prominently represented across seasonal campaigns, e-commerce, paid media, wholesale, and customer-facing experiences.
• Partner with Marketing and E-commerce to constantly evaluate campaign, content, and product-storytelling performance / resonance to refine future styling direction

Wholesale & Retail Visual Presentation

• Partner with the Creative Director, Wholesale to develop styling standards and selling tools — lookbooks, merch lineups, linesheets, trade show presentations, SMU assets, and in-store/boutique guidelines — ensure Z SUPPLY's visual world extends cohesively into wholesale and retail.
• As needed, contribute to trade show booth design and execution, ensuring the physical presentation of Z Supply reflects the same craft and intention
• Contribute to visual POV for Wholesale events inclusive of recommending brand elements and decor
• As needed, attend tentpole Trade Shows to support sales team

Brand: PR, Influencer, Events

• Partner with PR + Influencer to develop a monthly lookbooks for gifting and pitching highlighting key products and Z SUPPLY trends
• Collaborate with the Influencer Marketing and Social to ensure creator partnership briefs authentically align to the Z SUPPLY brand while aligning to key product priorities / investments

What You'll Bring

Experience & Expertise

– 8-10 years of styling experience in fashion, with a portfolio that demonstrates consistent, evolved aesthetic vision across multiple brands or seasons — not just beautiful individual images.

– Deep familiarity with the women's lifestyle, casual, and contemporary fashion market — understanding of the Z SUPPLY

– Proven experience leading styling across multiple content types simultaneously: campaign, e-commerce, social, and wholesale.

– Experience collaborating with product and merchandising teams on design development

– Track record of building and evolving a brand's visual identity, not just executing someone else's direction.

– Experience managing freelance talent and external creative partners; confident giving direction while maintaining collaborative relationships.

– Familiarity with social-first content aesthetics and how styling must adapt across formats and channels without abandoning brand integrity.

Who You Are

– You have a genuine, specific point of view about style and the confidence to advocate for it while remaining open to collaboration.

– You are as obsessed with the product as you are with the image. You read a garment before you style it. You know what it wants to be.

– You think about brand identity holistically — copy, color, casting, texture, and tone are all part of the same conversation for you.

– You're organized and have a high capacity without being rigid. You adapt without losing the creative thread.

– You are a strong communicator who can articulate visual decisions clearly to non-creative stakeholders.

– You are culturally fluent — you know what's happening in fashion, in social media, in the broader culture — and you filter it through a Z Supply lens rather than chasing it.

– You care about the customer. You don't dress the brand for your own taste. You dress it for the woman who wears it.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary Range:$160,000 – $175,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

At Z SUPPLY, departments work cross-functionally enabling everyone to further their knowledge and expertise in an inclusive, supportive environment that is committed to healthy work/life balance, peer mentorship, and community outreach. In addition to a collaborative and supportive culture, here are a few additional perks that are enjoyed by the Z SUPPLY team:

• Half-Day Fridays year-round
• Generous clothing discount
• New chic and modern offices located near top restaurants and shopping in Costa Mesa, CA
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• 401K with discretionary employer match of up to $2500
• Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, Paid Preventative Health Care Time Off, Paid Birthdays and various other company perks and benefits.
• Paid Maternity & Paternity leave following 1-2 years of service
• Collaborative, cohesive team environment focused on a thriving, progressive , inclusive & dynamic company culture
• Hybrid work arrangement — collaborative on-site presence balanced with focused remote work
• A creative environment where brand-building is taken seriously and this role has real influence

EEO STATEMENTZ SUPPLY is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please contact us.