Senior Designer

Overview

About PHOENIX 

 

PHOENIX Retail, LLC is a Direct-to-Consumer platform operating EXPRESS and BONOBOS in the United States. Grounded in a belief that style, quality and value should all be found in one place, Express is a brand with a purpose - We Create Confidence. We Inspire Self-Expression. - powered by a styling community. Bonobos is a menswear brand known for being pioneers of exceptional fit and a personalized, innovative retail model. Customers can experience our brands in over 400 Express retail and Express Factory Outlet stores, 50 Bonobos Guideshops, and online at www.express.com and www.bonobos.com.

Location Name

New York Office

Responsibilities

Meet our Design team and learn more about what makes this team special.  Come join us and be a part of our future.

 

 

This position will support Women's Sweaters.

 

As our Women’s Sweater Senior Designer, you’ll be working with all facets of design development for our fully fashioned sweater category alongside the fun and highly talented Design team.  In the role, you’ll be diving into the design process headfirst.  You’ll be doing market research to understand our customers, sketching, working on new yarns, stitches, patterns and collaborating with our tech team during fittings and communicating daily with our Production and Merchandising teams. 

 

Reporting directly to our Director of Design, you will have the opportunity to get your hands dirty every step of the design process.  You will play an instrumental role in evolving our signature products, sweater tops, dresses, pants and skirts.  We have an all-hands-on-deck mentality where the sharing of ideas is encouraged.

 

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Autonomously designs and innovates on products for their assigned categories without daily oversight
• Contributes to overall company product strategies
• 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 womenswear 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 sweater product lines inclusive of tops, dresses, and bottoms; keen eye for new yarns, stitches, pattern, trim, color and print, as well as maintaining cost targets and imu goals.
• Clear understanding of all technical aspects of fully fashioned sweater category design and development,
• extensive understanding of yarns and yarn capabilities with an eye for sourcing seasonally appropriate new yarns.
• Responsible for creating detailed and accurate tech packs (Adept at relevant design systems, BeProduct, Adobe, Miro, Microsoft)
• communicating innovative and unique stitch development to vendors and responsible for creating original stripe and pattern designs
• Contributes point of view in fitting and take notes/update tech packs and sketches accordingly
• Creates clear and directional design boards
• Comfortable speaking publicly and presenting designs in variety of settings
• Able to lead with confidence in assortment meetings with merchandising
• Attends seasonal detail meetings and directs conversation of assortment, responsible for selecting trims and product details.
• Keeps clear, open communication with production and merchandising
• Responsible for pulling - pattern, color inspiration and trims for categories, has great understanding of sweater patterning and yarn development and design
• Approves lab dips, handlooms, trim sheets, knit-downs, trim development, fit samples and pre-production samples
• Communicates all product details for site merchandising to input into website

 

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of experience and a degree in Apparel or Fashion Design related field
• 2+ years experience managing people
• Seasoned sweater expert and able to lead the associate designer to create women’s total sweater collection of tops, dresses,skirts and pants
• Extensive understanding of yarns and yarn capabilities with an eye for sourcing seasonally appropriate new yarns.

 

CRITICAL SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

• A positive “all-hands-on-deck” type of attitude
• Good communicator in