Women's Associate Designer - Outerwear and Sportswear

We're hiring a women's designer for our casual fashion outerwear and sportswear labels. You will be responsible for creating and managing the lines through the development cycle and helping to bring your creations to life once the production cycle has started! You will also be responsible for developing customer specific private label projects as needed for our retail partners. Responsibilities: Development Cycle Thorough knowledge of the women's Junior and Missy apparel markets. Including the current trends in fabrics, sillhouttes, market leading brands, and how to combine those inspirations into a line while maintaining a unique brand identity. Coordinate with design director and graphics designer to ensure cohesive look and vision across lines for each season Manage and maintain T&A Calendar, Sku Count Merchandise the line to ensure seasonal development meets company deadlines and strategies for sales growth. Create style development plan for seasonal product consisting of outerwear and sportswear in line with the brand’s core principles. Participate in internal design meetings with sales and management to showcase new development and update the team on time line and issues throughout the development cycle. Develop a color palette seasonally to use across the product line. Create and develop designs through B&W sketches Color CAD all seasonal brand development and put together the seasonal sales catalog Work with the graphic and print development team throughout the development and production process on making factory ready artwork files; pitching pantones, creating artwork placements and resizing artwork to the correct scale. Review and approve lab dips, wash panels (as needed) and print strike offs for seasonal development, ensure color and execution follows as per the design direction. Work in PLM Webtech to create tech packs, including uploading style details, sketches, label placement, branding, bill of materials and color cads. Work with the technical team to pass off technical direction for development style detail callouts and specs in PLM. Work and follow up with overseas factories to develop new styles and source new qualities. Update the development chart weekly including sample status and etas for each development style Manage seasonal fabric library by brand and factory Pass off all styles to the assistant designer as they come in to be tagged correctly and passed off to the sales assistant to be photographed. Review all received garments with the sales team and pass off to them to put in the showroom. Production Cycle Attend handoff meetings for orders; review the garments ordered, pass off color standards to the production manager, review artwork needed/pass off if ready prior to the meeting and review costing and garment changes. Work on production orders, updating and uploading the styles into PLM; sketches, style details, Bill of Materials (colorways), label placements, branding and hangtags. Pass off production order details to the production manager and technical designer to input the grading, specs and garment callouts. Pass off any factory ready artwork files (graphics and prints) and fabric standards to follow per order. Attend all production fittings for the product through first fit to PP/TOP stage, advise fit comments to the tech to ensure the garment meets customer and brand fit requirements. Work with the production manager throughout the production cycle as they review fabric and trim approvals with you to ensure product maintains the same look and quality as the garment originally sold. Requirements: 6+ Years Design Experience 2+ Years experience developing a full seasonal line Branded and Private label experience Current and relevant factory network for sourcing and development Expert with adobe design software: Illustrator primarily, Photoshop secondary. Team Player and open to design changes/constructive feedback. A keen eye for detail and excellent follow through. Ability to manage and meet deadlines In office position 5 days Compensation: Salary Range: $75-85K per year based on experience #J-18808-Ljbffr Santa Fe Apparel