Associate Designer, Lifestyle Attire | Athleta

About Athleta

For the previous 25 years, we’ve dedicated ourselves and our model to a single intention: to empower all girls and women. Inspiration. Collaboration. Connection. Inclusivity. It’s what we do finest, 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 pressure for good by placing folks and the planet proper up there with revenue, which is why Athleta is a licensed 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

In this position, you’ll work in an energizing, inclusive, and artistic surroundings targeted on concepting and creating sustainable product that exceeds clients’ expectations. Your purpose is to companion with cross purposeful crew members who collectively are liable for guaranteeing that the product model, match, and high quality are greater than well worth the value for our clients. Responsibilities embody collaborating within the conceptual growth of Athleta Lifestyle Dresses, Skirts, Outerwear, Bottoms, and Tops product strains, together with each Knits and Wovens, and guaranteeing product is per market developments and model methods. Must lean into threat taking and be buyer curious!

What You’ll Do

• Research world markets with a view to determine new seasonal developments, silhouettes, materials, methods, product classes and aggressive inspiration.
• Develop ideas and sketches for product line and advocate for design concepts by presenting to inner management and cross purposeful companions.
• Develop robust 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 website execution is a seamless buyer expertise.
• Influence technique for product space, offering suggestions concerning seasonal themes and edits to line, guaranteeing product meets enterprise and buyer wants.
• Partner with Production 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.
• Build cross purposeful partnerships and consensus, figuring out sketch callouts and speaking desired match and aesthetic to cross purposeful crew.
• Responsible for material and trim choice.
• Participate in tasks and assignments of various scope.

Who You Are

• Ability to work in a quick paced, dynamic, and extremely collaborative surroundings, with the power to juggle a number of seasons at one time and observe growth deadlines.
• Possess an elevated sense of favor, aesthetic, and shade and perceive tips on how to translate developments by the lens of the client and model filter.
• Thorough information of silhouette, match, fabrication, development, shade use, stitching methods, and trim.
• Strong pc information together with Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel.
• Confident presentation expertise, able to influencing an viewers.
• Well-crafted communication and organizational expertise, inclusive of monitoring growth deadlines. 
• 3+ years expertise in attire design

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 alternative.*
• 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 workers