Assistant CAD Designer (Handbags)

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles. 

 

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Job Title: Assistant CAD Designer (Handbags)

 

Primary Purpose: The Assistant CAD Designer will work under the direction of the Sr Director, Creative Studio to create and execute all handbag and slg sketches into 2D/3D illustrations to visually represent designs and design stories for presentations and factory execution. The ideal candidate must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, interpret a wide variety of actual and prospective components and materials into compelling 2D renderings and to group images for presentations in collaboration with the design team.

 

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Create and render the seasonal full assortment of leather goods illustrations using photoshop and illustrator
• Create original artwork and adjust existing artwork to be translated into leather applique and/or 3-dimensional pieces.
• Creates swatches and brush patterns in illustrator to use for CADs and share with design team
• Actively participates in the conceptual development of product lines (i.e., ability to communicate and sell ideas/concepts).
• Participate in research and development of seasonal trends and keep up-to-date on current trends. 
• Create and maintain presentation boards and visual decks for handbags and slgs.  
• Supports design team with material development technical specs
• Assist with artwork placement for detailed technical specs for all rounds of development.
• Build and maintain a CAD library within Adobe Creative Cloud for the design team to easily access and utilize

Education and experience required:

• 1+ years of design experience or a related experience
• Experience designing fashion leather accessories; experience with SLGs a plus.
• Strong computer knowledge, including adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Strong ability to hand sketch and computer render.
• Strong design and conceptual skills.
• Strong sense of trends/style, graphic design and color.
• Experience working with prints is a plus.
• Handbag material and construction knowledge.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

 

Our Competencies for All Employees

 

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in b