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Senior Knitwear Designer - Runway

Job title: Senior Knitwear Designer - Runway
Contract type: Full-time
Location: New York
Discipline: Fashion
Remote: No
Salary: $150-165K DOE
Reference: 441558
Contact name: Mary Kate Kane Carlucci

Job description

Responsibilities:
Ability to design into different price point ranging from entry price to luxury, partnering with product developer to achieve the margin goal.
BUSINESS responsibilities:
  • Extensive understanding of fully fashion knitwear, crochet, and seamless knitting: all technics related to the knitwear world.
  • Understanding of yarn sizes, machine gauges and knitting technics.
  • Full ownership of Knitwear category- Responsible for stitch development, sketches, and initial tech packs.
  • Experience in proto garment fittings; and coordinate with PD the follow up and comments to make sure all details are passed with the sense of urgency.
  • Yarn selection in partnership with the PD.
  • Detail oriented and able to foresee issues before they happen. 
  • Travel 2 to 4 times a year to the factories
  • Design 4 collections including material development per year estimate 30 styles per season across the 2 divisions.
  • Manage proto garment fittings; and coordinate follow up and comments to make sure all details are passed as senior leadership requests and on time within the short runway timing.
  • Ability to manage direct report including workload balance setting priorities and maintaining the calendar dates.
  • Working closely with the Senior Manager of Development on raw material sample yarn ordering in collaboration with the factories and mills.
  • Follow the guidance of 2 concept directors.
  • Be responsible for filling the necessary design information into our shared PLM : open centric shell and design pages into centric, create artwork files to scales , stitching graphing as needed.
  • You have an ability to influence design team (for budget purpose) and earn trust thanks to your expertise.
  • Good understanding of knitting time is also necessary to manage your short schedule on runway.
  • Work with Senior Manager dev, organize yarn library seasonally and work with yarn agents to get relevant price / information needs.
  • Travel to Italy factories to finalize all show samples before the runway.
RUNWAY responsibilities:
  • 2 runways a year.
  • Managing senior leadership and their requests keeping in mind the budget and timing.
  • Flexible hours as needed for the runway.
  • Working closely with our Italian consultant and the factories in Italy.
  • Good understanding of knitting time is also necessary to manage your short schedule on runway.
Qualifications / Experience:
  • Highly detailed and organized with an eye for quality and perfection
  • Experience working with contemporary and luxury brands
  • Comfortable working in a fluid and creative environment
  • Flexible hours as needed for the job
  • bachelor’s degree in fashion related field
  • 10 + years of experience in fully fashion knitwear field 
  • Knowledge of garment / pattern construction with an ability to interpret sketches.
  • Flexible personality who can change course quickly. Agility
  • Team player who enjoys working with others. 
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