Graphic Design Assistant/CAD Artist - APPAREL

LaLa Land Creative Company LLC is a Los Angeles based design studio, specializing in quick-turn production and creative business solutions for retailers. We are passionate about the creative process and love what we do. Our goal is to not just provide fashion to the marketplace, but to do it strategically; hand-in-hand with the retailers, helping them to have the right trends in the right volume at the right time with the ability to scale and react to what their customer votes for. This unique fusion of a retail mindset with exceptional creativity sets us apart as we passionately chase the future of the apparel design business.

Graphic Design Assistant/CAD Artist - APPAREL

Full-time, In-office M-F

Specific Responsibilities

• Work closely with our team of graphic designers and apparel designers to create digital CAD boards for presentations, internal documentation and sales requests.
• Work closely with costing to ensure that cost sheets are 100% accurate with correct art code, colorway and cad representation, updating CADs for cost sheets as necessary
• Reviews costing packages with Art Manager to facilitate approvals for color, scale, placement.
• Maintain a strong understanding of our target customers to inform design decisions.
• Request patterns from patternmaker for approval of scale and placement for graphics.
• Organize and maintain graphic design resource library and approval library
• Photograph and tag graphic proto samples.
• Strong desire to contribute to original graphic art requests, brainstorming sessions, researching design trends, etc.
• Provide support to graphic designers and apparel design team as needed.
• Drop-off/Pick-up as needed & other duties as assigned

Skills and Requirements

·      Portfolio required.

·      Skilled with Adobe Creative Suite; Microsoft Word, Excel and email required.

·      Assertive, independent thinker, able to exercise good judgement independently

·      Work within tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously

·      Fast learner with great attention to detail

·      Great communication skills, able to communicate well with various departments

·      Team player

·      Strong organizational and follow up skills

·      Understanding of apparel design concepts and techniques preferred.

·      Degree in graphic design or apparel design preferred.

Benefits

· $18 -$22 per hour, based on education and experience

· Biweekly pay

· PTO

· Medical, Vision, Dental

· 401K