Director of Planning
This role is responsible for leading financial and merchandise planning across wholesale, e-commerce, and retail channels. The ideal candidate will connect product strategy to profitability and use customer and account insights to build effective assortments and growth plans.
- Develop sales, inventory, SKU, allocation, and demand plans across multiple business channels.
- Partner with merchandising, sales, production, accounting, and leadership teams to support business goals.
- Monitor performance against sales, margin, turn, and inventory targets.
- Create assortment, open-to-buy, and door-level plans for key accounts.
- Collaborate with external partners to align on merchandise strategies and product direction.
- Manage replenishment, markdown planning, and weekly selling reports.
- Maintain accurate sales and planning data.
- Support e-commerce and store planning, including capacity planning and operational oversight.
Must be able to work 5 days onsite in downtown LA.
Responsibilities
- Own technical development and execution across multiple women’s product categories.
- Create and maintain accurate tech packs, specs, construction details, and measurement charts.
- Review samples and provide clear, detailed fit and construction comments.
- Conduct fittings and communicate corrections to factories and vendors.
- Manage fit approvals and ensure products meet design, quality, and fit expectations.
- Partner closely with Design, Product Development, Production, and overseas factories.
- Track technical development timelines and proactively communicate any issues or delays.
- Ensure all technical information is accurate, organized, and up to date throughout the development process.
- Identify potential fit, construction, quality, and production issues before they become problems.
- Manage multiple styles and deadlines simultaneously with minimal supervision.
- Help establish and maintain consistent technical standards across categories.
Qualifications
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2+ years of relevant technical design experience preferred.
- Strong experience in women’s contemporary or higher-end fashion.
- Experience working across multiple product categories.
- Strong understanding of garment construction, fit, grading, measurements, fabrics, and production.
- Excellent tech pack and specification skills.
- Highly detail-oriented with exceptional follow-through.
- Able to independently manage priorities, timelines, and workload.
- Strong communicator who is comfortable working directly with factories and cross-functional teams.
- Proven ability to identify problems, find solutions, and proactively move projects forward.
- Strong organizational skills and a high standard for accuracy.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, growing fashion company.
Senior Designer, Apparel
We are seeking a commercially minded Senior Designer to support the growth of a fast-paced apparel business across multiple channels and strategic partnerships. This person will have strong fashion instincts, excellent product development skills, and a deep understanding of the contemporary women’s apparel market.
This role reports to the VP of Apparel Design and will play an important part in identifying emerging trends, translating market opportunities into commercially successful product, and supporting the apparel design process from concept through production.
Responsibilities
- Conduct trend, market, and competitive research across contemporary, fast-fashion, and lifestyle brands.
- Identify relevant silhouettes, fabrics, colors, details, and category opportunities.
- Translate trend insights into actionable product ideas, seasonal direction, and presentations.
- Develop apparel across dresses, tops, bottoms, sweaters, outerwear, and special projects.
- Create and revise CADs, technical flats, colorways, tech packs, and presentations using Adobe Illustrator and other creative tools.
- Maintain accurate development materials that clearly communicate design intent and support sample execution.
- Partner with product development, technical design, merchandising, planning, supply chain, and overseas teams.
- Participate in fit reviews, evaluate samples and factory feedback, and document revisions throughout development.
- Support multi-channel, wholesale, B2B, and partnership programs as needed.
- Manage multiple development calendars and style counts while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Contribute to special projects, collaborations, presentations, assortment planning, and seasonal line reviews.
- Use AI-powered tools to support trend analysis, concept development, product visualization, presentations, and workflow efficiency.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design or a related field preferred.
- 4–7+ years of apparel design experience.
- Strong experience in women’s apparel and commercial product development.
- Strong understanding of contemporary, fast-fashion, and lifestyle markets.
- Advanced Adobe Illustrator skills required; Photoshop and InDesign are a plus.
- Strong CAD, technical flat, tech pack, presentation, garment construction, fit, fabrication, and product development skills.
- Experience working with overseas factories and development teams preferred.
- Strong organization, communication, presentation, and project-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and collaborate across time zones when needed.
Preferred Experience
- Contemporary women’s apparel, resortwear, swimwear, or lifestyle brands.
- Wholesale, marketplace, B2B, or multi-channel businesses.
- Trend forecasting and market analysis.
- AI-powered creative tools and high-volume product development environments.
What Success Looks Like
- Identifies trend-right opportunities that support business growth.
- Develops commercially viable product aligned with customer and market needs.
- Delivers accurate, timely development documentation.
- Helps improve fit, construction, and customer experience throughout the development process.
- Balances speed, quality, organization, and strong product judgment.
- Serves as a trusted partner to cross-functional teams.
We are working with a growing fashion company that is looking for a Direct- Hire Production Coordinator. This person will manage styles from development through bulk production, helping ensure timelines, quality standards, and cost targets are met.
Key responsibilities include:
- Track production calendars, milestones, and delivery timelines.
- Coordinate with vendors and factories throughout the production process.
- Prepare and issue purchase orders.
- Review samples and support pre-production approvals.
- Maintain accurate records for fabrics, trims, and finished goods.
- Communicate updates and changes with design, merchandising, inventory, and shipping teams.
- Troubleshoot production issues and delays.
- Help improve processes, efficiency, and accuracy across production operations.
Qualifications:
- Strong production planning and production management skills.
- Excellent organization and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple styles, timelines, and documents.
- Clear and effective communication skills for internal teams and external vendors.
- Knowledge of apparel production processes, materials, garment construction, technical packs, measurements, and quality checks.
- Proficiency in Excel, spreadsheets, and production management tools.
- Previous experience in apparel production, sourcing, or operations within a fashion or lifestyle brand is highly preferred.
- Ability to work on-site in Los Angeles and adapt to a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Degree in Fashion Production, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field—or equivalent professional experience.
The Technical Designer will lead the technical design process from initial concept through production, ensuring each style meets fit, construction, quality, and measurement standards.
What You’ll Do:
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Lead technical design across Men’s, Women’s, and Kids categories.
- Create and maintain detailed tech packs, specifications, and fit comments.
- Lead fit sessions and provide clear direction to internal teams and external vendors.
- Partner with Design, Product Development, Production, and Sourcing to resolve construction and fit issues.
- Manage development timelines and maintain consistency across styles and categories.
- Lead and mentor the technical design team while improving processes and workflows.
What You’ll Bring:
- 5+ years of technical design experience in apparel, fashion, or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of garment construction, fit, measurements, specifications, and quality standards.
- Experience working across Men’s, Women’s, and/or Kids apparel categories.
- Proven leadership, project management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Advanced proficiency with technical design tools, including CAD, PLM, and digital pattern-making systems.
- A detail-oriented, solutions-focused approach and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- A degree in Fashion Design, Technical Design, Product Development, or equivalent experience.
We are seeking an Associate Streetwear Designer to support the design and development of contemporary menswear collections. This is a full-time, on-site role in Los Angeles for someone with a strong point of view in streetwear, current fashion, and product development.
You will partner closely with design, production, and merchandising teams to bring seasonal concepts from initial ideas through production. The role is hands-on and includes sketching, technical design, fabric and trim selection, fittings, sample review, and tech pack creation.
Responsibilities:
- Support the development of seasonal menswear and streetwear collections.
- Create sketches, technical drawings, and detailed tech packs.
- Research trends, color stories, fabrics, trims, and key silhouettes.
- Attend fittings and refine garment construction, fit, and details.
- Review samples and prototypes with production partners and vendors.
- Collaborate across design, production, and merchandising to meet development timelines.
- Help ensure product quality, cost considerations, and design intent are maintained through production.
Qualifications:
- Strong foundation in fashion design and menswear, with a portfolio showing relevant contemporary or streetwear work.
- Experience with fabrics, textiles, trims, garment construction, and fittings.
- Ability to translate concepts into clear sketches and technical drawings.
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator or similar design software.
- Knowledge of the apparel development process, from concept and sampling through production.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Sales Representative — Private Label
Join a growing private label accessories business with an established foundation and significant opportunity to open new doors. This is a high-impact sales role for someone with strong private label experience, industry relationships, and the drive to build meaningful new business.
The Sales Representative will focus on expanding existing accounts and developing new retail partnerships across major retailers, department stores, off-price, and specialty channels. This is not an account management role. The right person will bring a proactive, business-development mindset and the ability to create momentum from day one.
What You Will Do
- Drive new business development for a private label belt and accessories business.
- Build relationships with key retail accounts and identify new growth opportunities.
- Partner closely with leadership, design, production, and overseas quality-control teams.
- Support product development conversations and translate customer needs into commercial opportunities.
- Help strengthen and expand a successful existing business while opening new channels.
What We Are Looking For
- Required: private label experience within belts, accessories, apparel, or a related product category.
- Strong sales and business-development background, ideally with established retail relationships.
- Experience calling on major retailers, department stores, off-price accounts, or specialty stores.
- Confident, entrepreneurial, and highly motivated. Someone who enjoys creating opportunities.
- Product development exposure is valuable, though not required.
Role Details
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Full-time, onsite role based in Van Nuys, California.
- Five days per week in the office for local candidates.
- Relocation support may be considered. Exceptional candidates may be considered for a remote arrangement.
- Compensation will align with experience, relationships, and ability to deliver new business.
This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned private label sales professional to make a visible impact, build new partnerships, and grow with a collaborative, well-supported team.
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.