Sr Designer- Women’s Sleep & Lounge
Our client is seeking an experienced, highly creative Senior Designer to lead the design and development for a premium sleepwear and loungewear license. This high-impact role offers meaningful creative ownership and the opportunity to help shape and grow an emerging business.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the seasonal design direction for sleepwear and loungewear collections.
- Partner with the Head of Apparel & Sourcing to define product strategy, creative direction, and collection architecture.
- Research trends, silhouettes, color, prints, graphics, fabrics, trims, and construction details while maintaining brand integrity.
- Develop seasonal concepts, mood boards, color palettes, print direction, and cohesive product assortments.
- Create detailed CADs, sketches, colorways, design presentations, prints, and graphics.
- Design elevated sleepwear and lounge silhouettes with strong attention to fabrication, fit, construction, and finishing.
- Collaborate with merchandising, production, technical design, sourcing, and overseas factories throughout development.
- Select and develop fabrics, trims, washes, embellishments, prints, and special details aligned with the brand and target customer.
- Review samples and provide clear, actionable design comments throughout the development process.
- Prepare collections and presentations for internal reviews, licensor approvals, and customer meetings.
- Ensure product meets brand, commercial, costing, and delivery requirements.
- Manage multiple seasonal calendars, developments, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Provide design leadership and help establish a strong creative standard for the collection.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of women’s fashion design experience; sleepwear, loungewear, intimates, or related apparel experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong contemporary or designer-brand aesthetic and a well-developed fashion point of view.
- Deep understanding of women’s silhouettes, fabrics, prints, color, garment construction, and fit.
- Experience working with licensed or established fashion brands is highly preferred.
- Advanced Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills.
- Ability to create professional CADs, presentations, prints, graphics, and colorways.
- Strong knowledge of overseas product development and factory collaboration.
- Ability to balance elevated design with commercial viability, target pricing, and production requirements.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing competing priorities.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
