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.
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.
Footwear production & Sourcing Manager
Onsite
Location: NYC, NY
Salary: 120-150K
Industry: Footwear
Willing to travel overseas 2 times a year
Systems working in – excel and ERP AS400
Job description:
About us
We are looking for a Footwear Sourcing and Production manage who is analytical, organized and has deep knowledge and understanding of footwear manufacturing supply chain and process. This position will be a key member of the product creation team who collaborates with the design and merchandising teams to deliver strategic sourcing capabilities in line with the brands quality and price value equation. An excellent candidate for this role is passionate about quality and product and is a great partner and collaborator.
Your Impact:
The primary functions of this role, includes but are not limited to:
- Sourcing strategic factory and supply chain partners in line with the brand strategy.
- Strive for continuous improvement in all areas of production including, but not limited to: Go to market calendar, tracking production progress, and quality assurance.
- Track and approve all pre-production samples while meeting production deadlines
- Assist with assessment and analyzing vendor capacities along with projections and secure allocation strategies with team
Who You Are:
A self-starter who brings passion , enthusiasm, focus, and detail to their work. You can guide partners and impact decision making by leveraging your deep knowledge of the supply chain and influencing skills. An open, adaptive , and curious problem solver.
We’d love to hear from people with:
- Bachelor’s Degree or relevant work experience
- 5-8 years of sourcing and production experience in the athletic footwear industry, preferably with an outdoor brand
- Product costing experience
- Experience building and managing seasonal calendars
- Experience traveling to and working with overseas factory development centers and partners
Senior Account Executive – Private Label Apparel
Our client is seeking a seasoned Senior Account Executive to lead and grow key private-label business within the Missy category, including sweaters, knits, dresses, and wovens. This is a high-visibility role reporting directly to the President of Sales.
The ideal candidate brings deep private-label apparel experience and a proven background managing major retail accounts. Direct Macy’s experience is required, including established knowledge of its buying organization, merchandising process, calendar, and business expectations. Experience with additional major retailers such as Dillard’s, Target, Costco, or TJ Maxx is highly valued.
Key Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day private-label business for Macy’s and other assigned retail accounts.
- Develop sales strategies that grow volume, margin, and market share.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Macy’s buyers, planners, and merchant teams.
- Lead line presentations, seasonal buy meetings, business recaps, and account planning discussions.
- Partner with design, merchandising, and production to deliver retailer-specific assortments.
- Analyze weekly sales, margin, inventory, and sell-through data to identify risks and opportunities.
- Negotiate programs, pricing, terms, and exclusives in support of financial objectives.
- Oversee development calendars and on-time execution from concept through delivery.
- Monitor competitive activity, category trends, and retail performance.
- Provide regular forecasts, reporting, and business updates to senior leadership.
Qualifications
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7+ years of wholesale apparel sales experience, with a focus on private-label programs.
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Required: Direct experience managing Macy’s private-label business.
- Strong understanding of Macy’s buying structure, seasonal calendar, merchandising process, and account expectations.
- Proven track record growing major department store, specialty, or mass retail accounts.
- Experience in the Missy category, including sweaters, knits, dresses, and wovens.
- Background with a fast-paced, design-driven apparel wholesaler.
- Strong financial acumen across sales, margin, inventory, and forecasting.
- Excellent presentation, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple programs and timelines.
- Available to work onsite in New York 3–4 days per week and meet regularly with retail partners.
Production Assistant – Children’s Apparel
Location: Lakewood, NJ
Salary: $60,000-$70,000K
Onsite 5 days/week; Winter Fridays work from home
15 paid Jewish holidays
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.