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Santa Fe Apparel · 23 hours ago

Associate Designer

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$65K/yr - $80K/yr

5+ years exp

Santa Fe Apparel is looking for an Associate Designer for their Outdoor and Active apparel lines. The role involves creating and managing the design lines through both the development and production cycles while collaborating with various teams to ensure cohesive product offerings.

ApparelConsumer GoodsE-CommerceFashion

Responsibilities

Thorough knowledge of the Outdoor, Fishing, and Active 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 women's designer to ensure cohesive look and vision across men and women 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, sportswear, and graphics 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

Create seasonal production direction through garment research, trend analysis and color palette creation

Develop a color palette seasonally to use across the product line

Create and develop designs through B&W sketches

Color cad out all seasonal brand development and put together in the seasonal development deck for sales

Create, outsource and manage the graphic and print development throughout the season. Including making factory ready artwork files; pitching pantones, creating artwork placements and resizing artwork to the correct scale

Coordinate with freelance designers outside the company on special projects, graphics and prints, etc

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 upload 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 the print and graphic library electronically. Filing per development season and production season

File all fabric/trim cards into development binders seasonally

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

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

Create and manage the hangtag development library, all development styles need to have appropriate hangtags to follow per each garment’s specific features

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

Qualification

Design ExperienceSeasonal Line DevelopmentAdobe IllustratorBranded ExperienceGraphic ExperiencePLM ExperienceDeadline ManagementTeam PlayerAttention to Detail