Assistant Concept Designer - AI

Role Summary

Free People is seeking an Assistant AI Concept Designer to join our Concept Team at Free People!

Operating in a key support role at an entry level, this position is designed to support the Concept Director. In this role, you will help take trend research and translate it into a visually cohesive direction. By utilizing generative AI tools, you will render imagery and presentations  that build upon raw trend research, enhancing and elevating it to ensure our concept decks are uniquely ours, pushing trends forward, and keeping Free People first to market.

Role Responsibilities

• Direct Support for Brand Leadership: Work directly under Concept Directors, acting as dedicated creative support to translate their directional vision and trend research into visual assets.

• Translating Trend Research: Take seasonal trend tears, physical references, mood boards, and color stories provided by leadership and convert them into one-of-a-kind, cohesive AI-generated imagery.

• Elevating & Pushing Trends: Use generative Ai tools to enhance standard trend research—creating custom visual concepts that make our trend decks uniquely ours, pushing trends further, and keeping the brand first to market.

• Concept Deck Execution & Refinement: Assist in building, editing, and populating seasonal concept decks, ensuring all imagery flows logically and retouches/compositions align with brand aesthetics.

• Workflow & Prompt Exploration: Actively experiment with new visual AI tools, prompts, and digital techniques to continually elevate deck presentation standards and streamline the concept support process.

Role Qualifications

• Experience Level: 1+ years of experience in Fashion Design, Concept Design, Trend Forecasting, Print Design, or a related field.  Bachelor's degree in a related field  preferred.

• Portfolio / Work Samples: A portfolio demonstrating Fashion Trend & Concept point of view, digital visual storytelling, fashion trend mood boards, Ai prompt engineering experimentation, image rendering or image manipulation.

• Foundational AI & Design Tool Knowledge: Hands-on experience or familiarity with generative Ai visual platforms and design tools including Midjourney, Gemini, Phygital, Photoshop Generative Fill, and Figma.

• Fashion & Brand Intuition: Strong visual eye with a clear understanding of current fashion trends, historical references, garment consturctions, fabrics, trims & silhouettes.

• Digital Editing Fundamentals: Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) for basic retouching, color adjustments, compositing, and presentation layout.

• Communication & Drive: Highly organized, proactive, eager to learn, and comfortable adapting to new digital tools in a fast-paced creative environment.

• Successful completion of an interview design project demonstrating the requires skills and strong understanding of the distinct visual identities of both We The Free and FP Collection will be required as a part of the interview process.

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The Perks

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