Senior Designer, Performance Lifestyle Bottoms | Athleta – Gap Inc.

About Athleta

For the previous 22 years, we’ve dedicated ourselves and our model to a single intention: to empower all girls and ladies. Inspiration. Collaboration. Connection. Inclusivity. It’s what we do greatest, and we’re on the hunt for individuals who share our ardour for main an lively way of life, rising personally in addition to professionally, and creating game-changing merchandise and experiences. 

We use enterprise as a power for good by placing individuals and the planet proper up there with revenue, which is why Athleta is an authorized B Corp. Ready to make a transfer? Join us. Because we all know that alone we’re robust, however collectively we’re unstoppable.

About the Role

We are in search of a well-organized, gifted and enthusiastic senior designer to hitch our staff. You will likely be liable for proudly owning the design of the ladies’s Knit and Woven Bottoms assortment for Performance Lifestyle. You will likely be taking part within the design course of (sketching and tech packs) and companion with cross-function staff within the growth of the assortment. In this position, you’ll work in an energizing, inclusive, and artistic atmosphere targeted on concepting and creating sustainable product that exceeds prospects’ expectations. Your purpose is to companion with cross practical staff members who collectively are liable for guaranteeing that the product type, match, and high quality are greater than well worth the value for our prospects. Must lean into threat taking and be buyer curious!

What You’ll Do

• Design Performance Lifestyle Bottoms
• Research international markets in an effort to establish new seasonal tendencies, silhouettes, materials, strategies, product classes and aggressive inspiration
• Develop ideas and sketches for product line and advocate for design concepts by presenting to inside management and cross practical companions
• Develop robust inside cross practical relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical design, Fit, Product Engineering, Gap Inc Sourcing (GIS), Visual Merchandising and Marketing to make sure product idea to retailer and web site execution is a seamless buyer expertise
• Partner with Product Engineering, Fit and Tech Design to create tech packs and talk imaginative and prescient behind match and product design, guaranteeing execution, high 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 quick paced, dynamic, and extremely collaborative atmosphere, with the flexibility to juggle a number of seasons at one time and monitor growth deadlines
• Possess an elevated sense of favor, aesthetic, and shade and perceive how you can translate tendencies by the lens of the client and model filter
• Thorough information of silhouette, match, fabrication, development, shade use, stitching strategies, and trim; pc information together with Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel
• Evaluate generally advanced conditions utilizing a number of sources of knowledge (inside and exterior sources)
• Able to filter, prioritize, analyze, and validate probably advanced in-depth understanding of ideas and procedures all through the product creation course of associated to garment development, hand sketching, and cloth, and understanding of procedures and ideas in different areas, corresponding to merchandising and product growth.

Benefits at Athleta

• Merchandise low cost for our manufacturers: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all staff.
• One of probably the most aggressive Paid Time Off plans within the trade.*
• Employees can take as much as 5 “on the clock” hours every month to volunteer at a charity of their selection.*
• Extensive 401(okay) plan with firm matching for contributions as much as 4 p.c of an worker’s base pay.*
• Employee inventory buy plan.*
• Medical, dental, imaginative and prescient and life insurance coverage.*
• See more of the advantages we provide.

*For eligible staff