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Fourth Floor · 2 days ago

Associate Designer, Outdoor and Activewear

NYC Metro Area

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$60K/yr - $70K/yr

3+ years exp

Fourth Floor is seeking a creative and knowledgeable associate designer with experience in outdoor apparel and activewear to join their team. The role involves creating style development plans, managing production cycles, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure a unified brand identity.

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Responsibilities

Create style development plans consisting of outerwear, sportswear, and graphics

Apply expertise knowledge of the outdoor apparel and activewear market

Ensure unified brand identify though trends in fabric, silhouettes, brands and end design

Manage T&A calendar and SKU Counts

Merchandise seasonal line

Lead internal design team meeting with sales and management to show new development

Create seasonal production direction

Develop seasonal color palettes

Create and develop design through B&W sketches

Color CAD seasonal brand development

Create outsource and manager graphic and print development

Review and approve lab dips, wash panels and print strike offs for seasonal development

Work in PLM to upload style details, sketches etc

Work with oversea factories to develop new styles and source new fabrics

Update development chart weekly

Manage print and graphics library

Pass off styles to assistant designers

Review received garments with the sale team

Be involved in the production cycle by attending handoff meetings for orders, create and manage hangtag development, pass off production order detail to production manager and technical designers, attend production fitting for PP/TOP stage, etc