GAP

Global apparel retailer with DTC brands

Sr Designer - Emerging Partnerships

Industrial DesignConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSan Francisco, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

The role requires the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment, juggle multiple seasons at one time, and track development deadlines.
The role requires an elevated sense of style, aesthetic, and color, with the ability to translate trends through the lens of the customer and brand filter.
The role requires thorough knowledge of silhouette, fit, fabrication, construction, color use, sewing techniques, and trim.
The role requires computer knowledge including Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel.
The role requires the ability to evaluate complex situations using multiple internal and external sources of information.
The role requires the ability to filter, prioritize, analyze, and validate complex concepts and procedures throughout the product creation process, including garment construction, hand sketching, and fabric, as well as procedures in merchandising and product development.

Responsibilities

Set the overall global design direction for the conceptual development of a specific product line.
Set strategic direction for the product area and team.
Provide creative direction and coaching to develop a motivated, high-performing team.
Research global markets to identify new seasonal trends, silhouettes, fabrics, techniques, product categories, and competitive inspiration.
Develop concepts and sketches for the product line and advocate for design ideas by presenting to internal leadership and cross-functional partners.
Develop strong internal cross-functional relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical Design, Gap Inc. Sourcing, Visual Merchandising, and Marketing to ensure seamless product concept-to-store and site execution.
Partner with Production and Technical Design to create tech packs and communicate the vision behind fit and product design, ensuring execution, quality, and desired margin targets are achieved.
Collaborate with and lead others in key design and product initiatives and their implementation.

About the Role

In this role, you will work in an energizing, inclusive, and creative environment focused on concepting and creating sustainable product that exceeds customers' expectations. Your goal is to partner with cross functional team members who collectively are responsible for ensuring that the product style, fit, and quality are more than worth the price for our customers. You will set the overall global design direction for the conceptual development of a specific product line. Must lean into risk taking and be customer curious!

What You'll Do

Set strategic direction for product area and team
Provide creative direction and coaching to develop a motivated, high performing team
Research global markets in order to identify new seasonal trends, silhouettes, fabrics, techniques, product categories and competitive inspiration
Develop concepts and sketches for product line and advocate for design ideas by presenting to internal leadership and cross functional partners
Develop strong internal cross functional relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical design, Gap Inc Sourcing (GIS), Visual Merchandising and Marketing to ensure product concept to store and site execution is a seamless customer experience
Partner with Production and Tech Design to create tech packs and communicate vision behind fit and product design, ensuring execution, quality, and desired margin targets are achieved
Collaborate and lead others in key design and product initiatives and their implementation

Who You Are

Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment, with the 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 filter
Thorough knowledge of silhouette, fit, fabrication, construction, color use, sewing techniques, and trim; computer knowledge including Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel
Evaluate sometimes complex situations using multiple sources of information (internal and external sources)
Able to filter, prioritize, analyze, and validate potentially complex in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures throughout the product creation process related to garment construction, hand sketching, and fabric, and understanding of procedures and concepts in other areas, such as merchandising and product development.

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