Company is hiring an Associate Designer for Women's Knits to join an energizing, inclusive, and creative environment. In this role, you will focus on concepting and creating sustainable product, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure style, fit, and quality align with market trends and brand strategies.
What You'll Do
- Research global markets to identify new seasonal trends, silhouettes, fabrics, techniques, and competitive inspiration.
- Develop concepts and sketches for the product line and present design ideas to internal leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Build strong relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical Design, Gap Inc Sourcing (GIS), Visual Merchandising, and Marketing to ensure seamless product execution from concept to store and site.
- Partner with Production and Tech Design to create tech packs and communicate the vision behind fit and product design to ensure quality and margin targets are achieved.
- Communicate difficult concepts in a simple manner.
- Participate in projects and assignments of diverse scope.
- Handle sketch callouts, communicate desired fit and aesthetic to tech design, and maintain sketch updates and specifications.
What We're Looking For
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment.
- Ability to juggle multiple seasons at one time and track development deadlines.
- Possess an elevated sense of style, aesthetic, and color and understand how to translate trends through the lens of the customer and brand.
- Thorough knowledge of silhouette, fit, fabrication, construction, color use, sewing techniques, and trim.
- Applied knowledge of garment construction methods to the design process.
- Strong computer knowledge including Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to present problem analysis and recommended solutions in a creative and logical manner.
Technical Stack
- Adobe Illustrator
- Microsoft Excel
Team & Environment
You'll work extensively with a cross-functional team including Merchandising, Production, Technical Design, Gap Inc Sourcing (GIS), Visual Merchandising, and Marketing. The culture is energizing, inclusive, and creative, focused on sustainable product, and leans into risk-taking and being customer curious.
