Temporary Women's Designer - Wovens/Knits

Our client, a fashion apparel brand, is hiring for a Temporary Women's Designer, to join the team in New York! This is a temporary contract role.

Responsibilities:

• Attends category cross-functional meetings with merchandising, production, tech design and planning, and is prepared to lead discussions and present relevant information
• Stays up to date on menswear trends and presents those ideas cross-functionally
• Translates customer needs into viable product ideas
• Builds product related deadlines on top of company calendar
• Collaborates with merchandising team to bring new key ideas to categories
• Attends retail trade shows and visits factories to stay up to date on industry and product trends and production innovations when required
• Responsible for designing full product lines for their categories; keen eye for fabric, pattern, trim, color and print, as well as maintaining cost targets and imu goals.
• Clear understanding of all technical aspects of assigned categories design and development, including different types of fabric finishes, performance properties, trim and garment construction.
• Responsible for creating detailed and accurate tech packs (Adept at relevant design systems, BeProduct, Adobe, Miro, Microsoft)
• Contributes point of view in fitting and take notes/update tech packs and sketches accordingly
• Creates clear and directional design boards, owns editing development to 50% development ratio in partnership with Merchandising

Experience Needed:

• 5+ years of design experience
• Strong design aesthetic and ability to produce relevant and innovative design concepts
• Have the ability to sell ideas and clearly explain product designs
• Expert at using Adobe design software
• Comfortable with design calendar, deadlines and managing competing priorities
• Comfortable with garment construction in assigned categories.

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