Job Description

9312-1 – Apparel design. Will work on special project for woman’s performance training apparel.

• Yoga
• Training
• Field sports
• Hip movement
• High intensity
• Bras/leggings

Location: okay with relocation. Please provide an explanation on their relocation plan (family, friends)

Conversion/extension: do not over promise. Role is for 6 months and the team will revisit closer to current end date.

What the team is looking for:

• This person will be working on 1-2 projects per season
• For 6-month project will most likely see about two seasons

Day to day:

• Working alongside performance designers for Women’s
• Sketching and working with material pallets.
• Understanding garments
• Creating tech packs
• Attending fittings
• Attending strategy meetings
• Trend and market research

Must have:

• Strong experience with sketching materials, fitting, and creative direction
• 8 years of experience
• Strong technical skills with 2D sketches

Work

• Working on models and sketches

Previous resumes

• Lacked strong portfolio
• Limited skills in Woman’s apparel
• Candidates they interviewed were not able to speak to their skills, lacked in areas of the role that are required, or portfolios didn’t outline the skills they are looking for
• Not able to speak about current and emerging trends

Portfolio

• Needs to showcase women’s apparel design (specifically showcasing Yoga, training, field sports, hip movements, high intensity, or bras/leggings)
• Garment construction and design must be on the portfolio.
• Managers want to understand how they think

Tools: AI tools are nice to have, photoshop CLO are strong preference

• If they have AI, it would be ideation as some of the sketching will be done through AI. How they render ideas using AI
• This position is NOT about creating a beautiful presentation, it’s more on actual designing of products (garments, construction, and building garments and working with materials.)

Interview: 2 rounds of interviews / both will be virtual. 2 nd round CAN be onsite if they are curious to see the site and team

• Prepare to speak to breadth of work. Projects they worked on specifically aligned to women’s apparel.
• Showcasing women’s performance as they are not looking for someone they can train; they need someone who can hit the ground running day one.
• How they approach trends, come up with designs

Previous organization:

• Anyone who is a direct competitor to Nike will be exciting for the team to want to interview as the pace, team members they work with, meetings they take will be very similar to Nike
• Adidas, puma, lululemon, urban outfitters are some companies
• MUST BE WOMEN’S PERFORMANCE (SPORTS RELATED, TECH WEAR)

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