We’re looking for a creative, market-driven Senior Designer with strong experience in athletic and lifestyle footwear. This person will bring fresh ideas to the team while balancing design vision, technical product development, and fast-paced seasonal deadlines.
You’ll design across a range of categories (Mens, Womens & Kids) including sandals, casual sneakers, snow boots, and casual boots. The ideal candidate has a strong eye for trends, excellent sketching and visualization skills, and the ability to turn concepts into compelling 2D and 3D footwear designs.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Create innovative footwear concepts and lifestyle designs for the current market.
- Develop high-quality 2D and 3D design concepts within established timelines.
- Apply strong technical knowledge across aesthetics, materials, development, manufacturing, quality, and construction.
- Research the U.S. footwear market to identify key silhouettes, consumer trends, and emerging opportunities.
- Manage multiple design projects while meeting seasonal milestones and deadlines.
- Create fast, polished concepts and renderings using Adobe Illustrator.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams while also working independently when needed.
- Travel approximately 10–15% domestically, with occasional international travel possible.
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design, Footwear Design, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in athletic and/or lifestyle footwear design.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Strong sketching, visualization, and concept-development skills.
- Deep understanding of consumer trends, footwear styling, and market direction.
- Excellent organization, communication, and time-management skills.
- A collaborative mindset and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Woven and Knits Top and Bottoms Technical Designer
Onsite: Midtown, NYC
Employment Type: Freelance
Onsite 4-5 days/week
32-40 hours/week
Duration: 2+ months
Pay Rate: $40/hr
Well-known brand is seeking a detail-oriented Woven and Knits Top and Bottoms Technical Designer for a 60-day freelance assignment. This role will support the development of woven and knit apparel across tops and bottoms, ensuring fit, construction, measurements, and technical specifications align with brand standards and production requirements.
Responsibilities
- Create, update, and maintain development specifications and technical packages for woven and knit tops and bottoms.
- Develop garment measurements, construction details, grading requirements, and fit standards.
- Conduct garment fittings and document clear, accurate fit comments for internal teams and vendors.
- Partner with Design, Product Development, Production, and vendors to resolve fit, construction, and quality issues.
- Review samples throughout the development process and ensure revisions are reflected in technical documentation.
- Support timely approvals and communicate priorities to meet development and production deadlines.
Qualifications
- Experience in technical design for woven and knit apparel, including both tops and bottoms.
- Strong knowledge of garment construction, fit, measurements, and production processes.
- Proficiency creating technical specifications, fit comments, and detailed documentation.
- Ability to lead fittings, communicate feedback clearly, and manage multiple styles in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Knit Tops Technical Designer
Onsite: Midtown, NYC
Employment Type: Freelance
Onsite 4-5 days/week
32-40 hours/week
Duration: 2+ months
Pay Rate: $40/hr
Knit Tops Technical Designer
Our client, a leading retail organization, is seeking a detail-oriented Knit Tops Technical Designer to support the development and fit of knit-top product. This is a freelance opportunity based in New York, NY.
Work on development specs, garment specing, conduct fittings and process fit comments.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain technical specifications for knit-top styles.
- Create, review, and update garment measurements, construction details, and fit standards.
- Conduct fittings and translate feedback into clear, actionable fit comments.
- Partner with cross-functional teams and vendors throughout the product-development process.
- Help ensure consistency, quality, and accuracy from development through production.
What We’re Looking For
- Technical design experience focused on knit tops or comparable apparel categories.
- Strong knowledge of garment construction, specifications, measurement, and fit.
- Experience preparing development specs and processing fit comments.
- Excellent organization, attention to detail, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced product-development environment.
Director, Special Events
Lead the strategy, development, and execution of a premium brand’s special events and experiential marketing portfolio. This senior leadership role will create immersive experiences that strengthen customer connections, elevate brand positioning, and deliver measurable business impact.
Job Location: Westchester, Southern CT, Northern NJ or NYC
NO RELOCATION
Candidates must come from the Fashion or Beauty industries
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute an annual experiential marketing and events strategy aligned with campaigns, product launches, retail initiatives, partnerships, and community priorities.
- Lead high-profile events including consumer activations, retail openings, influencer experiences, press previews, wholesale events, executive engagements, and philanthropic initiatives.
- Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, PR, Creative, Social, Retail, Ecommerce, Merchandising, Wholesale, and Product teams to deliver integrated brand moments.
- Oversee end-to-end event production, including concepts, venues, logistics, staffing, hospitality, vendors, budgets, and post-event reporting.
- Establish KPIs for attendance, engagement, earned media, social impact, customer acquisition, brand sentiment, sales impact, and ROI.
- Build and mentor a high-performing events team while managing agencies, freelancers, and external partners.
What You Bring
- 10+ years of progressive experience in experiential marketing, special events, hospitality, brand activations, or related fields.
- Proven success delivering complex, multi-market event programs and high-impact experiential campaigns.
- Exceptional leadership, creative storytelling, project management, budgeting, negotiation, and operational skills.
- Strong network of production agencies, hospitality partners, venues, vendors, and creative collaborators.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and travel as needed—including occasional evenings and weekends.
Benefits include: 401(k), commuter benefits, disability insurance, employee discount, wellness programs, and generous time off.
Director, Public Relations
Fashion Brand
Employment Type: Full-Time + Hybrid – 4 days/week in office in Stamford CT
About the Job
Our client is a growing premium consumer lifestyle and apparel organization seeking an experienced, strategic Director of Public Relations to lead earned media, brand storytelling, executive communications, and reputation management. This leader will help strengthen cultural relevance, elevate brand visibility, and create compelling narratives across consumer, lifestyle, business, retail, and fashion media.
Reporting to senior marketing leadership, the Director of Public Relations will develop and execute an integrated communications strategy that supports seasonal campaigns, product launches, partnerships, retail initiatives, and long-term business growth. The ideal candidate is an accomplished storyteller, trusted media advisor, collaborative people leader, and relationship-driven communications professional.
Key Responsibilities
Brand Communications Strategy
- Develop and lead a comprehensive public relations strategy to increase brand awareness, strengthen reputation, and build cultural relevance.
- Create earned-media plans supporting seasonal campaigns, product launches, collaborations, partnerships, retail initiatives, and corporate milestones.
- Partner with executive leadership to align communications with business priorities, brand positioning, and long-term growth objectives.
- Establish measurable performance indicators to demonstrate the impact of communications activity on brand awareness, engagement, and business results.
Media Relations & Brand Visibility
- Cultivate strong relationships with fashion, lifestyle, consumer, retail, business, travel, sports, and broadcast media contacts.
- Lead proactive media outreach and identify high-impact storytelling opportunities that build brand affinity with priority audiences.
- Develop executive thought-leadership opportunities, media profiles, and speaking engagements.
- Monitor media coverage, competitive activity, consumer sentiment, and cultural trends to identify opportunities and risks.
Integrated Campaign Communications
- Lead communications planning for seasonal collections, partnerships, retail openings, experiential activations, community initiatives, and corporate announcements.
- Partner with social media, creative, advertising, retail marketing, e-commerce, wholesale, merchandising, product, influencer, and talent teams to deliver unified storytelling.
- Create messaging frameworks that ensure consistency across earned, owned, shared, and paid channels.
Editorial, Product & Events Communications
- Oversee press previews, editor appointments, media events, collection launches, and product storytelling initiatives.
- Direct product seeding, editorial sample management, and showroom or press-office operations to maximize meaningful placements.
- Translate product innovation, craftsmanship, and seasonal assortments into compelling editorial narratives.
- Lead strategic planning and execution for press events, media previews, influencer experiences, launches, and VIP activations.
Corporate Communications & Leadership
- Advise senior leaders on executive messaging, corporate communications, issues management, and reputation strategy.
- Develop crisis communications plans and maintain readiness for emerging issues.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing public relations team in a collaborative, creative, and results-oriented environment.
- Manage external agency relationships, budgets, communications planning processes, and performance expectations.
What You Bring
- 10+ years of progressive public relations and communications experience within premium consumer brands, fashion, lifestyle, retail, or a leading public relations agency.
- Demonstrated success developing integrated earned-media strategies that build brand equity and support commercial growth.
- Established relationships with national fashion, lifestyle, consumer, business, travel, sports, and media industry contacts.
- Experience leading communications for consumer-facing brands with strong editorial and storytelling positioning.
- Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills.
- Proven experience managing agencies, budgets, media events, and cross-functional marketing initiatives.
- A strategic, detail-oriented mindset with the ability to translate ideas into high-quality execution.
- Collaborative leadership skills and the ability to influence stakeholders across functions and seniority levels.
- Strong understanding of the evolving media landscape, including digital publishing, creators, podcasts, newsletters, social platforms, and emerging communications channels.
- A passion for consumer brands, culture, storytelling, and building lasting audience connections.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
- 401(k) plan
- Commuter benefits
- Paid family leave
- Health savings and flexible spending accounts
- Life and disability insurance
- Wellness programs and fitness resources
- Employee product discount
- Paid time off and holiday schedule
We’re looking for a trendy Textile Designer to bring Pop Culture Fashion designs to life through original textile prints and graphics.
This role will work closely with Merchandising and Design teams, as well as the Senior Artist, to develop trend-driven artwork for fashion apparel.
The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of pop culture, fashion trends, textile design, print techniques, and production artwork, with expert-level skills in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with the Senior Artist to develop original textile prints and graphics for fashion apparel.
- Create artwork inspired by current trends and pop culture.
- Create and present print concepts to Design and Merchant partners.
- Use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to prepare, modify, resize, and finalize artwork.
- Work with Product Development and Design to communicate printing and design techniques to factories.
- Develop artwork with consideration for silk screening, embroidery, sublimation, embellishment, woven plaids, and dye treatments.
- Collaborate with Merchandising, Design, Product Development, and cross-functional teams.
- Manage multiple projects and deadlines in a hybrid work environment.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of Textile Design experience within a wholesale and/or vertical business.
- Education or certification in Graphic Arts or Textile Design.
- Expert-level Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills.
- Ability to hand draw and recreate artwork based on specific styles and techniques.
- Strong understanding of fashion, trends, and pop culture.
- Comprehensive knowledge of textile and apparel printing techniques.
- Strong time management, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Comfortable working hybrid, with one day onsite in City of Industry.
Required Systems & Skills
- Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
- Textile, print, and graphic design
- Hand drawing and artwork recreation
- Pop culture and trend research
- Print concept development and production artwork
- Silk screening, embroidery, sublimation, embellishment, woven plaids, and dye treatments
- Factory communication
Licensing experience is a huge plus.
Senior Account Executive – Accessories-LA
Employment Type: Full-Time | Location: Los Angeles, CA
We are seeking an accomplished Senior Account Executive to lead wholesale growth for a fashion accessories business in the Los Angeles market. This role is ideal for a relationship-driven sales professional with deep category knowledge and a proven ability to expand revenue through strategic retail partnerships.
In this role, you will own the full account lifecycle—from prospecting and account planning to seasonal presentations, order execution, forecasting, and post-sale follow-up. You will build long-term relationships with specialty retailers, department stores, ecommerce partners, and other wholesale channels while representing an evolving accessories collection.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage, retain, and expand a portfolio of key wholesale accounts within the accessories market.
- Identify and develop new business with specialty, department store, and online retail partners.
- Present seasonal collections, product assortments, and tailored sales strategies to buyers and account stakeholders.
- Create account plans that support revenue targets, sell-through performance, and long-term partnership growth.
- Negotiate pricing, terms, assortments, delivery schedules, and promotional opportunities.
- Monitor orders, inventory requirements, deliveries, sales performance, and account communications.
- Analyze sales reports, customer feedback, and market trends to forecast demand and uncover growth opportunities.
- Collaborate with merchandising, product development, operations, and marketing teams to deliver strong customer outcomes.
- Represent the collection at market appointments, trade shows, buyer meetings, and relevant industry events.
- Maintain accurate account records, sales activity, forecasts, and pipeline updates.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of wholesale sales experience in fashion accessories, handbags, jewelry, footwear, or a related product category.
- Established relationships with retail buyers and wholesale partners strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success achieving sales goals and building profitable, long-term account relationships.
- Strong presentation, communication, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
- Sound business judgment and the ability to interpret sales data into actionable account strategies.
- Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Willingness to travel for customer meetings, markets, and trade events as needed.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced accessories sales leader who enjoys building meaningful retail partnerships, driving commercial growth, and bringing compelling product collections to market.
We’re looking for an experienced Product Development Manager to lead the apparel product development process from development through pre-production. This person will drive executional excellence, quality, cost discipline, and on-time delivery across every stage of development.
Role Overview:
You’ll partner closely with Design, Merchandising, Technical Design, Production, Compliance, and vendors to ensure products are delivered in line with design intent, margin targets, production requirements, and timelines.
This is a highly data-driven, metrics-heavy environment. You should be comfortable analyzing data, drawing meaningful business insights, and clearly communicating recommendations and rationale.
The team operates in a non-seasonal, weekly-drop model averaging approximately 160–200 SKUs per week. Experience managing product development at this pace and volume is essential.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Lead, coach, and develop the Product Development team, including direct people management.
- Own the product development process from development through pre-production.
- Manage the team against the development calendar to ensure on-time delivery.
- Drive team performance against KPIs and OKRs, including lead-time, margin, and allocation targets.
- Maintain execution discipline to improve development speed, accuracy, and on-time delivery.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and timing issues early, bringing clear solutions and recommendations.
- Drive product engineering that supports design intent, margin goals, and production readiness.
- Oversee day-to-day execution of the development calendar across assigned categories.
- Maintain accurate BOMs, product data, and supporting documentation throughout the development lifecycle.
- Manage sample development, approvals, and vendor communication.
- Ensure development data is complete, current, and reliable for cross-functional partners.
- Partner with Design, Merchandising, Technical Design, Production, Compliance, and suppliers.
- Support vendor accountability through clear communication, calendar adherence, and issue escalation.
- Use data and metrics to identify business insights and drive decisions.
- Lead effectively in a high-velocity, weekly-drop environment.
What You’ll Need:
- 5+ years of apparel Product Development experience.
- Proven people-management experience with at least 1–2 direct reports.
- True leadership experience; this is not an individual contributor role.
- Strong knowledge of apparel development and production processes.
- Experience owning the end-to-end product development process independently.
- Experience working in a high-volume, fast-paced product environment.
- Experience with non-seasonal and/or weekly-drop business models strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn metrics into actionable recommendations.
- Confidence explaining and defending data-driven decisions.
- Excellent attention to detail, organization, efficiency, and follow-through.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented approach to problem-solving.
What Makes Someone a Strong Fit:
- 5+ years of apparel Product Development experience with direct people-management responsibility.
- Experience leading a Product Development team, not solely working as an individual contributor.
- A strong ability to turn data into business insights and recommendations.
- Experience operating at significant SKU volume and development speed.
- Comfort working within a non-seasonal, weekly-drop model.
- A track record of holding teams accountable to KPIs, timelines, and business goals.
- A proactive approach to identifying risks and bringing solutions.
- Strong cross-functional influence through expertise, data, and collaboration.
