Senior Director Design, Lifestyle | Athleta

About Athleta

For the previous 25 years, we’ve dedicated ourselves and our model to a single intention: to empower all ladies 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 energetic way of life, rising personally in addition to professionally, and creating game-changing merchandise and experiences. 

We use enterprise as a pressure 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 sturdy, however collectively we’re unstoppable.

About the Role

In this position, you’ll work in an energizing, inclusive, and inventive setting targeted on concepting and creating sustainable product that exceeds clients’ expectations. Your purpose is to associate with cross purposeful crew members who collectively are liable for making certain that the product model, match, and high quality are greater than well worth the value for our clients. You will handle and direct a artistic design crew in all features of the product improvement course of for a number of product areas or a complete division. Must lean into threat taking and be buyer curious!

What You’ll Do

• Lead crew via all features of the product design course of, offering artistic route, teaching, and creating a motivated, excessive performing crew.
• Regularly affect management crew selections and initiatives
• Develop total design imaginative and prescient and idea for division or perform, advocating and presenting methods to inner management and cross purposeful companions
• Research world markets in an effort to establish new seasonal tendencies, silhouettes, materials, strategies, product classes and aggressive inspiration
• Develop sturdy inner cross purposeful relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical design, 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 Production and Tech Design to create tech packs and talk imaginative and prescient behind match and product design, making certain execution, high quality, and desired margin targets are achieved.
• Responsible for planning, funds, and finish outcomes; units insurance policies and methods for division or perform.

Who You Are

• Ability to work in a quick paced, dynamic, and extremely collaborative setting, with the flexibility to juggle a number of seasons at one time and observe improvement deadlines
• Ability to steer, affect and develop a excessive performing crew of designers
• Possess an elevated sense of fashion, aesthetic, and colour and perceive how one can translate tendencies via the lens of the shopper and model filter
• Expert information of silhouette, match, fabrication, development, colour use, stitching strategies, and trim
• Strong laptop information together with Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel

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 workers.
• One of essentially 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(ok) plan with firm matching for contributions as much as 4 % 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 workers