Job description
Assistant Designer, IntimatesPosition Overview:
Individual contributor responsible for assisting with the creation of commercially viable product designs across collections.
Assistant Designer Responsibilities:
- Assist the design team in the creation of brand-right, commercial designs that reflect the conceptual direction/business strategy
- Deliver design sketches/prototypes and provide clear specifications for construction
- Build and maintain the sample room
- Create flat sketches and CAD images
- Prepare design team for routine and milestone meetings, including the coordination of line presentation boards/tableaus and selection of product samples
- Communicate ongoing development details to internal partners (i.e. Production, Tech, Merchants) and vendors, ensuring all communication is flowing to the correct people
- Partner with technical design on fit and execution of prototypes, assisting with scheduled fittings and necessary follow-up
- Track and organize development samples, ensuring they are delivered within required timelines and seamlessly passed off to key parties
- Attend routine team meetings and key partner alignment sessions
- Adapt designs based on feedback, incorporating for finalization
- Apply processes to understand/anticipate the needs of the customer in order to exceed customer expectations and readily react to their needs
- Utilize resources in sourcing new ideas, both internally and externally, and stay up to date on competitor research/trend analysis
- Communicate point of view clearly through mood boards and concept tears
- Achieve set goals with acute attention-to-detail, tracking progress & anticipating potential issues
- Pursue/embrace opportunities to personally grow and develop skills/competencies
- Develop and understand the VS eye/brand identity and specific category
- Build and maintain effective relations with key partners
- Seek to improve process in order to deliver efficiently with speed/agility
Assistant Designer Qualifications:
- Exceptional talent with a commercial fashion eye and detail in product styling/performance
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Ability to recall information
- Customer service philosophy
- Collaborative partner with a team-oriented approach
- Highly motivated, passionate and results oriented
- Solid communication and presentation skills
- Solid understanding and ability to communicate construction instructions
- Champion for change and able to react with speed and agility
- Flexible and creative problem solver
- Personal professionalism and accountability
- Moderate travel
- Bachelor’s degree in Design or equivalent experience
- Entry level with some design experience in a comparable retail environment
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