Technical Apparel Designer
Location: Raleigh, NC area
Schedule: Onsite, 5 days/wk
We are seeking a detail-oriented Technical Designer to support seasonal apparel collections from concept through production. This is an opportunity to join a growing lifestyle and apparel organization known for creating meaningful gifts, statement jewelry, and apparel that inspire connection and confidence.
The Opportunity
As the Technical Designer, you will be the fit and construction expert for apparel styles across the business. You will partner closely with Design, Production, Sourcing, and vendor teams to ensure products meet quality, fit, measurement, and production-readiness standards.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain fit, measurement, grading, and construction standards for seasonal apparel collections.
- Create and manage technical specification packages, flat sketches, measurement details, and “how to measure” documentation.
- Lead fit sessions with designers and models; document fit notes and guide revisions through sample approval.
- Partner with factories and vendor teams to resolve fit, construction, and technical challenges.
- Support product development from initial concept through pre-production, ensuring approved samples and final tech packs are production ready.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to maintain seasonal timelines, quality standards, and clear product handoffs.
- Provide technical support for quality control, product specifications, and production decisions.
- Mentor and manage team members as the organization grows.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Apparel Technical Design or a related field.
- At least 8 years of relevant technical apparel design experience.
- Strong expertise in patternmaking, sewing, garment construction, grading, fitting, tech packing, and flat sketching.
- Advanced knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and proficiency with Excel for specifications and grading.
- Experience with digital pattern design; 3D technical design experience is a plus.
- A highly organized, proactive, detail-oriented approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across internal and external teams.
If you are passionate about apparel fit, construction, and bringing high-quality products to market, we encourage you to apply.
Wholesale Account Manager – Footwear-South Central US Territory
We are seeking a results-driven Wholesale Account Manager to grow footwear sales, profitability, and strategic retail partnerships across the South Central United States. This full-time, remote role is ideal for a consultative sales professional who combines strong account-management skills with business analysis, forecasting, and a deep understanding of wholesale retail.
Position Summary
The Wholesale Account Manager will own key retail relationships throughout the South Central territory, including Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. You will develop account strategies, identify new business opportunities, manage forecasts and budgets, and partner closely with internal sales planning, marketing, product, and operations teams to deliver profitable growth.
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Employment Type: Full-Time
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Department: Sales
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Location: Remote; candidates must reside within the South Central territory
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Territory: AR, CO, KS, LA, MO, NM, OK, TX
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Reports To: Senior Account Manager
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Travel: Up to 50%
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FLSA Status: Exempt
What You’ll Do
- Build and execute account and territory plans that achieve revenue, margin, and profitability objectives.
- Manage and expand relationships with department stores, independent retailers, specialty accounts, and prospective wholesale partners.
- Identify, pursue, and open new retail opportunities that strengthen market coverage and brand presence.
- Partner with sales planning to develop accurate sales, product, and inventory forecasts using market trends, historical performance, and account intelligence.
- Monitor sales velocity, sell-through, inventory, receipts, shipments, and margin performance to identify risks and growth opportunities.
- Lead regular business reviews and communicate account performance, strategic recommendations, and forecast updates to internal leaders and external partners.
- Serve as a primary liaison between retail partners and internal teams to support timely communication, shipment execution, and issue resolution.
- Manage account-specific budgets and investments in alignment with sales goals and profitability expectations.
- Improve retail demand and gross-margin performance through sell-through management, merchandising alignment, seasonal promotions, associate education, and in-store activations.
- Collaborate with regional retail teams across multi-door accounts to enhance product visibility and uphold merchandising standards.
- Deliver weekly recaps on key-account retail sales, territory shipments, forecast performance, and budget progress.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in business, sales, marketing, or a related field; equivalent education and experience will be considered.
- Experience in wholesale sales, account management, or business development, preferably within footwear, apparel, consumer products, department stores, or specialty retail.
- Demonstrated ability to manage both field-level and corporate retail relationships.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience interpreting sales data, forecasts, inventory, and margin performance.
- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to set priorities, build strategy, and independently manage a multi-state territory.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint; SAP experience is preferred.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% within the assigned territory.
Work Environment
This is a remote, field-based position with regular travel to customer locations, sales meetings, market events, and internal business reviews. The role requires the ability to work effectively from a home office and collaborate across geographically dispersed teams.
Fashion and Lifestyle Brand is seeking a Assistant Color Designer to support a growing Color & Concept Design team within a leading consumer brand. You will help research trends, build and maintain color palettes, organize inspiration and reference materials, and support the development of fabric surface treatments, including heathers, color blocks, and washes.
Open to entry-level designers with a strong eye for color, excellent organization, and enthusiasm for seasonal creative development.
Responsibilities
- Support seasonal color, concept, and CAD development from research through presentation.
- Assist with color research, trend analysis, palette development, and creative reference materials.
- Create and update design files, color palettes, and digital boards using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Maintain color libraries, seasonal strike-offs, naming conventions, codes, and related documentation.
- Coordinate color-related requests with Design, Production, Merchandising, suppliers, and other cross-functional partners.
- Prepare and send materials and packages to internal teams and external partners.
- Provide administrative and organizational support throughout the color and concept development process.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Fashion, Art, or a related field.
- 0–2 years of relevant experience or a strong internship/portfolio background.
- Strong understanding of color theory, design research, and visual trend analysis.
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
- Highly detail-oriented with strong multitasking, organization, and follow-up skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a cross-functional team.
Contract – 40 hours/week
Hybrid Work Schedule – 3 days in office, 2 days WFH
Please share your portfolio and resume for consideration!
We are looking for a Demand Planning Manager to serve as the critical link between Planning, Supply, and Operations. This person will own the global demand plan that drives inventory and fulfillment decisions, while also leading Sales Operations and managing the flow of purchase orders across global retail partners.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own and maintain the consolidated global demand model, translating gross sell-in demand into a clear plan for Supply and Operations.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Supply, and Purchasing to gather insights that inform demand forecasts.
- Incorporate promotional activity, new product launches, consumer trends, international regulations, and regional product variants into demand planning.
- Align demand forecasts with production schedules, capacity planning, procurement strategy, and inventory targets.
- Optimize inventory levels to reduce excess stock while maintaining product availability.
- Lead the Sales Operations team and oversee incoming purchase orders across global retail partners.
- Ensure allocations, order status, retailer lead times, shipment goals, and 3PL coordination are aligned to the demand plan.
- Build monthly sell-in shipment summaries and report on forecast accuracy, inventory, demand trends, and key business risks.
- Support the coordination and documentation of monthly S&OP review meetings.
- Drive process improvements across demand-planning tools and workflows, including opportunities to improve NetSuite processes and forecasting models.
What We’re Looking For:
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3–5 years of manager-level experience in demand planning, business planning, sales operations, supply chain, or a related function.
- Experience in CPG or beauty; fashion experience is also welcome.
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NetSuite experience is required.
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Advanced Excel skills are required, including formulas, data analysis, and building or maintaining forecasting models.
- Experience managing or mentoring a team.
- Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, or a related field preferred.
Wholesale Account Manager – Footwear-Midwest
Employment Type: Full-Time
We are seeking a results-oriented Footwear Wholesale Account Manager to grow and manage retail partnerships throughout the Midwest territory. This remote, customer-facing sales role combines strategic account planning, business analysis, forecasting, and relationship management to drive sustainable revenue, profitability, and brand growth.
Position Overview
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Department: Sales
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Reports To: Senior Account Manager
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Location: Remote; candidates should reside within the assigned territory.
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Territory: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska
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Travel: Up to 50%
What You’ll Do
- Build and execute account plans that achieve territory revenue, profitability, and growth objectives.
- Own commercial relationships with assigned retail partners, serving as a trusted connection between customers and internal sales, planning, marketing, product, and operations teams.
- Develop sales, inventory, and product forecasts using market trends, historical performance, account plans, and retailer insights.
- Monitor sales velocity, sell-through, inventory levels, receipts, and shipment performance to identify risks and growth opportunities.
- Deliver weekly and monthly business recaps covering account sales, territory shipments, forecast performance, budget progress, and recommended actions.
- Manage account-specific budgets and promotional investments in alignment with strategic sales objectives.
- Identify and pursue new retail opportunities, including expansion within existing accounts and new-account development.
- Strengthen brand demand and retailer gross margin through assortment strategies, retail execution, associate education, activations, and seasonal promotions.
- Partner with regional retail teams across multi-door accounts to enhance product visibility and maintain merchandising standards.
- Anticipate customer needs, resolve issues with urgency, and sustain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, sales, marketing, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
- Experience in account management, wholesale sales, retail sales, or business development, preferably within footwear, apparel, consumer goods, department stores, or specialty retail.
- Demonstrated ability to manage both field-level and corporate retail relationships.
- Strong financial, analytical, forecasting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management abilities.
- Ability to prioritize competing initiatives and translate data into practical commercial recommendations.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; SAP experience is a plus.
- Willingness to travel regularly throughout the assigned Midwest territory.
Work Environment
This is a remote, field-based position with regular travel to customer locations, retail stores, meetings, and regional events. The role requires the ability to work effectively from a home office while collaborating across geographically distributed teams.
Senior Ecommerce Associate
Employment Type: Freelance
Location: onsite in NYC 5x per week
We are seeking a detail-oriented and commercially minded Senior Ecommerce Associate to support the day-to-day performance, presentation, and optimization of a fast-growing digital storefront. This freelance role is ideal for an experienced ecommerce professional who combines strong merchandising instincts with analytical rigor and can execute quickly in a collaborative, high-volume environment.
Reporting to the ecommerce leadership team, you will help ensure the site is accurate, compelling, and conversion-focused across product launches, seasonal updates, promotions, and ongoing content changes. You will work closely with marketing, creative, planning, operations, and external partners to deliver an exceptional customer experience and support ecommerce revenue goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute daily ecommerce merchandising updates, including product setup, collection management, navigation, promotional content, and on-site storytelling.
- Support product launches from initial planning through live-site execution, including asset coordination, product information validation, quality assurance, and post-launch monitoring.
- Maintain product catalog accuracy across titles, descriptions, imagery, pricing, inventory messaging, tags, variants, and merchandising attributes.
- Partner with ecommerce leadership to implement merchandising strategies that improve conversion, engagement, average order value, and sell-through.
- Monitor site performance and key product metrics, identifying opportunities to improve category presentation, product discoverability, and customer journey flow.
- Create recurring reports on site performance, product sales, merchandising effectiveness, and campaign results; translate findings into clear recommendations and next steps.
- Coordinate with creative and marketing teams on homepage, landing page, campaign, and product-detail-page updates.
- Perform routine site QA across desktop and mobile experiences, escalating and helping resolve issues related to content, functionality, checkout, promotions, and product availability.
- Support testing initiatives, including merchandising experiments, content updates, promotional placements, and customer experience improvements.
- Maintain organized ecommerce calendars, launch checklists, briefs, and documentation to keep cross-functional workstreams on schedule.
Qualifications
- 3–5 years of ecommerce, digital merchandising, site operations, or digital marketing experience, preferably within retail, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, or consumer goods.
- Hands-on experience with Shopify or a comparable ecommerce platform, including product catalog management and collection merchandising.
- Strong understanding of ecommerce KPIs, including conversion rate, bounce rate, average order value, sell-through, traffic, and product performance.
- Experience using web analytics and reporting tools such as Google Analytics, Shopify Analytics, Looker, or similar platforms.
- Excellent attention to detail and a demonstrated ability to manage multiple site updates, launches, and deadlines simultaneously.
- Comfortable working with product data, inventory information, pricing, promotions, and performance reporting.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with creative, marketing, planning, and technical stakeholders.
- Knowledge of SEO, A/B testing, mobile optimization, UX best practices, and ecommerce site QA is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Digital Commerce, or a related field is preferred.
What Success Looks Like
- A polished, accurate, and customer-focused online shopping experience.
- On-time product launches and promotional updates with thorough quality assurance.
- Clear reporting that turns ecommerce performance data into actionable recommendations.
- Improved product discoverability, site engagement, and conversion opportunities.
- Reliable cross-functional coordination across fast-moving digital priorities.
Pay: $32/hr
40 hours/week
Location: Tampa
Duration: 3 months
Hybrid: WFH on Mon and Fri; work onsite Tue, Wed and Thur
Material Developer, Embellishments: Details
Role Overview
The Material Developer plays a key role in advancing our embellishment capabilities by focusing on the development of screen-printed components, techniques and other decorative applications. Serving as a development toolbox for applied materials, the Material Developer is also responsible for building and maintaining a comprehensive applied materials portfolio. This role will partner closely with the US-based teams, Product Development department, and PCC to oversee the creation, testing, and production of embellished materials. The goal is to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of components that meet both creative design intent and manufacturing standard.
How you will make an impact:
Concept Development
- Support end-to-end material development process that enables and elevates innovation, productivity, efficiency, quality, and profitability all with the domestic face.
- Research and develop trends and innovation continuously by working closely with Product Development and PCC.
- Prepare data & material for trend presentation, present at kick off.
- Track developments by calendar due dates.
- Come up with seasonal updates to core materials, incorporating market and performance trend.
- Receive, send out cuttings & review submits of materials from suppliers to PCCs.
- Work cross functionally with PPC, design/merch for comments on submits. Test & Validate
- Work with PCC/suppliers to proactively solve testing issues and communicate with PI/CFT.
- Working closely with the network making sure that the quality is the same as we have on all our packages.
- Support necessary DEQ testing to designated product service model.
- Receive and review failed testing specimen with manager.
- Proactively identify risk & work on solutions to mitigate testing issues by researching new material/fibers/techniques, in partnership with Product Development.
Daily Activities
- Working with our domestic production counterparts.
- Monitor work in progress (WIP), create & maintain tracking and all Material-related record keeping, data input, and in/out parcel coordination. Update weekly information regarding approval/comments to CFT.
- Organize and maintain the material library & on-time seasonal tool-box, ensuring meets global standards.
- Create and maintain carryover & seasonal materials boards, publish as approved.
- Gather data for adoption ratio post buy & analyze for adoption ratio and department overview of material usage by channel, with suggested roadmap.
- Facilitate timely communication with internal and external parties between US offices & PCC.
- Compile weekly metrics & analysis to support material KPI’s.
- Partner with Material Manager/ Director to identify opportunities within the process to increase speed, efficiency & quality.
- Input report card metrics for on-time sample performance, quality & communicate with PCC on suggested action plans.
- Support SOP documentation, distribution, and training relevant to necessary process updates for internal & external partners. Inclusive of being a SME in cross-functional SOP validation.
- Speed to market to the domestic JD and quick strike.
What you bring to the team:
- Bachelor’s degree in Textiles, Clothing Technology or manufacturing related field.
- 5+ years of experience and strong technical knowledge gained in retail/manufacturing environment covering all areas of textiles from fibers, yarn, material construction, finishes, printing and quality. Experience with performance fabrications preferred.
- History of established strong partnerships with fabric suppliers globally and can navigate difficult situations to drive solutions while maintaining positive relationships.
- Experience visiting mills & have a keen eye for quality, compliance, cost negotiations & process optimization.
- Understanding of AATCC and ASTM industry test methods.
- A team player with a good attitude, strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient in product line management (PLM), databases, and MS Office applications, 3D development experienced, and Adobe Illustrator.
- Must be detail-oriented, able to multitask, and punctual in meeting deadlines.
- Ability to juggle multiple deadlines and tasks in a fast-paced environment. Strong sense of urgency and intuitive sense of priorities and accuracy.
- Ability to communicate verbally and written in a clear, concise, tactful manner.
- Willing and able to travel extensively, often to foreign and/or remote locations.
Production Assistant – Children’s Apparel
We are looking for a highly organized Production Assistant to support a growing children’s apparel team. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in apparel production or product development who enjoys managing details, tracking timelines, and coordinating with multiple partners throughout the production process.
The Production Assistant will work closely with internal teams, factories, and vendors to help keep product development and bulk production moving forward. The right candidate is proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do
- Support daily production and product development activities across children’s apparel collections.
- Track samples, approvals, production milestones, and delivery schedules.
- Communicate with factories and vendors regarding timelines, materials, samples, and production updates.
- Maintain organized production files, specifications, purchase orders, and tracking documents.
- Assist with reviewing samples for fit, measurements, construction, color, trims, fabric, and quality.
- Coordinate sample routing and approvals between design, production, and external partners.
- Help manage lab dips, fit samples, size sets, pre-production samples, and related approvals.
- Identify potential delays or issues and communicate updates to the appropriate team members.
- Support quality-control efforts and help ensure products align with approved standards.
- Keep samples and production references organized and accessible.
What We’re Looking For
- Previous experience in apparel production, product development, merchandising, or a similar role.
- Children’s, baby, or layette apparel experience is strongly preferred.
- Excellent organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage several priorities and deadlines at once.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfort working with overseas factories and vendors.
- Proficiency with Excel or Google Sheets.
- Ability to understand garment specifications, tech packs, and production documentation.
- Knowledge of fabrics, trims, garment construction, and manufacturing is a plus.