Freelance at La Crescenta, California

OZMA Design Role

OZMA makes women's elevated basics, essential pieces focused on sustainability, quality, fit, and fabric. You will work collaboratively with our creative director/founder, who leads design across knits, wovens, denim, and tees. You can take strong creative starting point and knowing exactly how to push it further, finding the right fabrication, refining the silhouette, identifying the detail that makes it land. You are a design partner with your own strong POV - an ideator, a sounding board, an executor. You must have strong knowledge in knits, ideally of Peruvian yarns. This role requires deeper PD involvement in the sweater category.

What You Will Do

• Build on creative direction from the founder on knits, wovens, denim, and tees and execute with precision and point of view
• Identify trend-right silhouettes, fabrications, color, and details that sharpen the founder's starting point
• Own sweater design and PD end to end: yarn sourcing, gauge, construction, tech packs, fit comments, and factory communication
• Source fabrics and yarns independently with sustainability as the filter
• Produce clean sketches and specs across all categories
• Work within a small team: founder, Head of Production, Product Developer, patternmakers, and Tech Designer

Required

• 6+ years in women's apparel design, minimum 2 years in a mid-level design role
• Background in elevated or contemporary basics
• Strong technical execution across wovens, cut-and-sew knits, and denim
• Deep knowledge of sustainable materials, fiber certifications, and responsible sourcing
• Able to source fabrics and yarns independently
• Portfolio that shows editing and restraint, not trend volume

Sweaters - Required, Not Preferred

• You must be able to own sweater design and PD independently. This means yarn sourcing, gauge and construction knowledge, tech pack writing, and direct factory communication. Candidates without this depth will not be considered.

You Are a Fit If

• You thrive both when given a strong direction to build on and can also ideate collaboratively or independently
• You can receive feedback without friction and execute revisions quickly
• You are as comfortable writing a tech pack as you are in a concept conversation
• You understand sustainability at a sourcing level, not just a marketing one
• Small, founder-led environments feel energizing, not limiting
• You can be in our Frogtown studio regularly