Senior Technical Designer - Apparel

Senior Technical Designer

We would like to meet a detail oriented Senior Technical Designer. You will manage the fit sample process from development to pre-production samples. You will attend fittings and work with cross functional team members to have the best class fit. We are looking for someone who is motivated, a team player, able to take direction, and has excellent time management skills. The ideal candidate will have experience developing team members and have a strong sense of prioritizing the workload. We're an apparel company with new product launches on the horizon, a great culture, awesomely talented team and a fun, creative atmosphere.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Designer to ensure great fitting quality products are reflective of the design intent.
• Send tech packs to corresponding vendors that include detailed garment measurements and construction.
• Ability to build technical sketches in Illustrator.
• Responsible for sending clear fit comments with illustrations to factories promptly through email and other forms of communication.
• Spec garments before all fittings, take and track notes to ensure final fit, quality, and construction meets brand quality standards.
• Perform accurate measurements to ensure that size grading standards are within tolerance levels for specific fabric types.
• Participate in fit sessions by fitting on a live model, recording comments and communicating with team and vendors.
• Maintain a shared file of all fit tech packs for design and production.
• Track and monitor execution to time-and-action calendar; record and track all packages, track fit and pre-production (PP) samples or other reference samples as required; keep an archive of fit samples.
• Analyze fit, construction, workmanship issues, and accurately communicating all PP and TOP corrects to factories overseas.
• Keep organized and detailed records.
• Work within tight calendar time constraints prioritizing workload to meet fast approaching deadlines with a sense of urgency.
• Successfully build excellent working relationships with in-house colleagues in design/merch/sourcing as well as overseas vendors.
• Manage and develop Assistant Technical Designer/Technical Designer in all technical, administrative, and workflow skills.
• Troubleshoot daily issues and partner with the direct manager to attain the best solution or course of action for a quick resolution.
• Assist Sourcing Director on various departmental tasks as necessary.

Qualifications:

• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Assertiveness - Ability to act in a self-confident manner to facilitate completion of a work assignment or to defend a position or idea.
• Business Acumen - Ability to grasp and understand business concepts and issues.
• Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
• Communication, Written - Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.
• Conceptual Thinking - Ability to think in terms of abstract ideas.
• Creativity - Ability to think in such a way as to produce a new concept or idea.
• Delegating Responsibility - Ability to allocate authority and/or task responsibility to appropriate people.
• Emotional Intelligence – Ability to relate to others and navigate interpersonal issues as it relates to team building, development and coaching.
• Presentation Skills - Ability to effectively present information publicly.
• Project Management - Ability to organize and direct a project to completion.
• Problem Solving - Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.

Skills & Abilities:

Education: Bachelor's degree in Technical Design or Fashion Design or Associate's Degree (two year college or technical school) : Required

Experience: 5+ years of experience (in Technical Design and Product Development)

Computer Skills: Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop, Microsoft Excel

Other Requirements: High-level knowledge of fabrics and garment construction; team player that will do what it takes to get the job done.

Pay: $60K - 75K a year