Assistant Colorist (intimate apparel)

Job Description

Position Overview

The Assistant Colorist is responsible for ensuring color consistency, accuracy, and quality across all base fabrics, trims, garment components, and finished products for all brands and styles within the organization. This role reviews and provides detailed feedback on color submissions, maintains accurate records, and collaborates cross-functionally with internal teams, global partners, and external suppliers. The Assistant Colorist plays a key role in maintaining brand standards and ensuring seasonal coordination across product lines. This position reports to the Sr. Director, Raw Materials and Product Quality.

This role is four days in-office.

Key Responsibilities

Color Submission Review & Approval

• Receive, review, and comment on all color submissions from mills, factories, and suppliers to ensure alignment with brand color standards and aesthetic requirements.
• Provide clear, accurate, and timely feedback on lab dips, bulk submissions, and production garments.
• Ensure that all fabric and component colors match approved standards and coordinate across garment styles each season.

Tracking & Documentation

• Maintain detailed tracking of all color submissions and approvals using Excel and internal systems, providing regular status updates to cross-functional teams.
• Organize and file approved and rejected color references, maintaining an efficient, accessible archive of color standards and production references.
• Maintain fabric and trim reference cards to ensure consistency and accuracy in seasonal color libraries.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with our Hong Kong color team, design, merchandising, and production departments to address color challenges, provide solutions, and support product development timelines.
• Communicate current priorities and open issues with clarity and professionalism.
• Collaborate with material suppliers and garment factories to resolve color-related issues, ensuring on-time approvals and minimizing production delays.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

• Monitor mill and supplier color performance through color scorecards, identifying trends and recurring issues to proactively address quality concerns.
• Proactively escalate and submit issues requiring management attention, ensuring swift resolution in line with brand standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of color and/or apparel experience (including internship experience)
• Understanding of how to use a Spectrophotometer, a plus
• Excellent attention to detail and follow-up skills
• Knowledge of knits and woven textiles

What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package to full-time employees, which includes:

·      Excellent medical, dental & vision coverage

·      401(k) with a company match

·      Paid vacation and holidays (and your birthday off too!)

·      Employer-funded Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)

·      Disability Insurance

·      Maternity and Parental Leave

·      Group Life Insurance

Ariela & Associates is an EEO employer. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to an individual’s age, race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy) or sexual orientation, gender expression, military status, marital status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, disability or membership in any other protected class under applicable law.