Sr. Designer, Beyond Yoga

JOB DESCRIPTION

Female founded and led, Beyond Yoga creates buttery soft activewear and beyond for every size, shape, moment, and movement from our own line of meticulously researched fabrics. Our obsession for softness and fabrics, and a relentless pursuit of quality and fit makes Beyond Yoga a fan favorite at every stage of life. We proudly celebrate diversity and welcome all ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, belief systems, and identities.  

We encourage our team to be active members of their local and global communities through opportunities like Social Good Day to participate in a cause of their choosing. Like us, the people we hire are passionate, honest, warm, enthusiastic, and fun!

In September 2021, we joined Levi Strauss & Co., one of the world’s largest brand-name apparel companies and a global leader in jeans wear. Beyond Yoga operates as a standalone brand with the benefit of LS&Co.’s global capabilities to help it achieve its goals of brand-building, store opening, category expansion and distribution.

Headquartered:  Los Angeles, CA (Culver City area)

Employees: 140+ and growing

Position overview: This role helps lead the design process to yield consumer driven, innovative, and commercially viable products that deliver value and style for the Beyond Yoga brand as well as sustain the development, evolution and communication of the brand look that supports and deepens the brand value and identity. You contribute to design vision that inspires both global and local creative hubs and brings product to life. 

What We’re Looking For: 

In this role you: 

• Communicate a clear design point of view and direction around an athletic-inspired, casual lifestyle brand look that supports the brand identity. 
• Identify trends in the global and local marketplace and filter through brand aesthetic. 
• Contribute to the direction of the business by establishing design vision and formulating original concepts. 
• Develop seasonal design platforms and concepts by identifying consumer-relevant opportunities through market research 
• Ensure seasonal collection communicates both big fashion ideas and locally relevant messages that result in a consistent and integrated consumer experience. 
• Understand nuances in both global and local consumer behavior and competitive pressures. 
• Collaborate and influence within and across different parts of the organization. 
• Understand broader design trends across multiple categories and disciplines. 
• Design and develop the selection of the fabric, color, print/pattern, details and trims seasonally.  
• Execute the design process components to achieve or exceed targets for the seasonal calendar, assortment plan and source location requirements  Sustain effective partnerships with Merchandising, Product Development and Sourcing to ensure products are engineered to profit and quality/aesthetic goals 

About You: 

• College Degree in apparel design, or a combination of education and experience.  
• Minimum of 7 years design experience, including 3 years as an apparel designer or lead designer in an athleisure or athletic-inspired category or brand. 
• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Suite 
• Strong team-oriented individual with the ability to work in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment with changing priorities 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 
• PC/MAC literacy/fluency including Excel and Power Point 
• Knowledge of PLM would be helpful