We are seeking an experienced Freelance Tech Designer to provide short-term support on an upcoming apparel development project! This is a great opportunity for a detail-oriented technical design professional who can jump in quickly, work independently, and help keep product development moving smoothly and on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and maintenance of apparel technical packages, specifications, and product documentation.
• Review garment measurements, construction details, fit comments, and physical samples to ensure accuracy and consistency throughout the development process.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to address technical design needs, troubleshoot issues, and help maintain key development timelines.
• Review and communicate fit and construction updates clearly and accurately.
• Maintain organized, up-to-date technical documentation throughout the sample and production process.
• Help identify and resolve technical issues to ensure garments meet established fit, construction, and quality standards.
• Provide hands-on support wherever needed to keep the development process on track during this short-term project.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in technical design within the apparel or fashion industry.
• Strong understanding of garment construction, fit, measurements, grading, and technical specifications.
• Highly detail-oriented with a strong eye for accuracy and consistency.
• Ability to interpret technical information and communicate updates effectively with cross-functional partners.
• Comfortable working independently, prioritizing multiple tasks, and adapting quickly in a fast-paced environment.
• Reliable, responsive, and able to step into a project with minimal ramp-up time.

We are looking for a dependable, hands-on, and detail-oriented technical design professional who can make an immediate impact. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys jumping into projects, solving technical challenges, and helping ensure product development stays on schedule.

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Dress Designer with a passion for creating trend-forward, fashion-driven collections. This role will own the dress category from concept through final sample while leading creative direction, mentoring junior designers, and collaborating cross-functionally to bring innovative collections to life.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design trend-driven dresses from concept through final approval.
• Research trends, silhouettes, fabrics, and market inspiration.
• Source fabrics, trims, linings, and specialty materials.
• Create detailed tech packs and oversee product development.
• Lead proto fittings, ensuring exceptional fit and construction.
• Manage seasonal calendars, sample tracking, and development timelines.
• Partner with Product Development, Production, Creative, and overseas teams.
• Mentor junior designers and help drive creative direction for the dress category.

Qualifications:

• 5–8+ years of fashion design experience with a strong focus on dresses.
• Experience within fast-fashion or trend-driven apparel brands.
• Strong expertise in garment construction, draping, fit, fabrics, trims, prints, and embellishments.
• Experience leading fittings and managing products from concept through production.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in Fashion Design or a related field.

Relocation Package Available

Outerwear Designer- Womens

Client Overview: Privately owned and operated outerwear manufacturer, with more than 40years of experience as a leader in quality outerwear, with its own proprietary and licensed brand names as well as diverse private label offerings.

Position Overview: We are looking for a true outerwear designer with hands-on experience developing women’s outerwear. This is a small-team role in New York City. The person needs to be able to work closely with the merchant and technical designer to manage the development process from concept through production handoff.

Key Responsibilities:
• Research trend, color, fabric, trims, and competitive outerwear product
• Develop seasonal women’s outerwear concepts
• Create flat sketches, line sheets, and detailed tech packs
• Work on fabric, trim, lining, and hardware
• Review samples, lab dips, trims, and fit comments
• Work closely with the merchant and technical designer throughout the development process
• Maintain organized updates to tech packs, samples, and development timelines

Qualifications:
• Strong women’s outerwear design experience
• Strong Adobe Illustrator skills
• Ability to create detailed flat sketches and tech packs
• Strong understanding of outerwear construction, fabrics, trims, linings, hardware, fit, and garment details
• Experience reviewing samples and development comments
• Organized and able to manage multiple styles at once
• Experience working in a PLM system
• Experience in a small-team environment
• Experience with private label, wholesale, or retail-driven product development

Freelance Assistant Color & Print Technologist

About the Role

American Eagle Outfitters’ Aerie brand is seeking a detail-oriented Freelance Assistant Color & Print Technologist to support the seasonal color and print approval process. This role will help ensure color consistency and adherence to established standards across Aerie’s mills, vendors, and manufacturing partners while providing designers with the tools and resources needed to bring color inspiration to life.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the inventory, filing, ordering, and distribution of seasonal color standards and design tools.
• Create and distribute digital seasonal color palettes to internal partners and external suppliers.
• Maintain accurate databases for seasonal color standards, thread approvals, lab dips, trims, prints, and bulk submissions.
• Coordinate the distribution of seasonal color palettes to thread suppliers for product development.
• Review lab dips, prints, trims, and color submissions; document comments and required corrective actions.
• Pull body color approvals for trims and collaborate with Design as needed.
• Maintain organized historical records and archives of lab dips, trims, prints, and bulk approvals.
• Support additional color, print, and product development projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Color Technology, Textiles, Apparel, or a related discipline preferred.
• Ability to pass the Munsell Color Test with Superior Discrimination.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong interpersonal, problem-solving, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Comfort collaborating across Design, Product Development, vendors, mills, and suppliers.
• Adobe Creative Suite experience is a plus.

Associate Designer – Girls’ Apparel (2-8)

Location: New York, NY
Employment Type: Full-Time (onsite 5 days)
Salary: 70-80k DOE

We are seeking a creative, detail-oriented Associate Designer to support the development of girls’ apparel collections from initial concept through production. The Associate Designer will partner closely with design, merchandising, product development, technical design, sourcing, sales, and production teams to deliver compelling, market-right product for each season.

Associate Designer Key Responsibilities

• Research seasonal trends, color, fabric, silhouettes, graphics, trims, and competitive product.
• Create mood boards, color palettes, design presentations, CADs, sketches, prints, and graphics.
• Develop commercially viable girls’ apparel for Off-Price
• Support the creation of customer-specific presentations, line sheets, and design concepts.
• Create and maintain detailed tech packs, including construction details, measurements, fabrications, trims, artwork, and colorways.
• Review lab dips, strike-offs, trim submissions, artwork, and samples; communicate clear comments and revisions..
• Track design updates from concept through final approval and production handoff.
• Help manage seasonal calendars, sample deadlines, market appointments, and approval milestones.

Associate Designer Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design or a related field preferred.
• 3+ years of apparel design experience, ideally within girls’, children’s, baby/toddler
• Strong knowledge of garment construction, fit, fabric, trims, color, print, and graphics development.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop required. PLM preferred
• Strong organization, communication, and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Senior Account Executive, Footwear

We are seeking a seasoned wholesale sales professional to lead and grow key footwear accounts. This role will own seasonal business planning, account strategy, and customer relationships across major department stores and national retail partners.

The ideal candidate brings strong footwear or fashion wholesale experience, a deep understanding of retail math, and the ability to turn sales data into clear business decisions. This is a highly cross-functional role requiring trusted partnership with Planning, Merchandising, Production, Marketing, and retail customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead seasonal account plans focused on sales, margin, profitability, and market share.
• Manage forecasting, receipt planning, sell-in targets, and ongoing account performance.
• Identify growth opportunities across categories, product assortments, distribution, and customer channels.
• Build strong relationships with key wholesale partners and serve as a strategic advocate for both the customer and the brand.
• Lead customer meetings, market appointments, presentations, negotiations, and seasonal investment discussions.
• Partner with internal teams to shape assortments, support business priorities, and deliver seasonal objectives.
• Review sales and product results to identify risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Use data and customer insights to support informed decisions and drive account growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of wholesale sales or account management experience; footwear background strongly preferred.
• Experience managing major department stores and national retail accounts.
• Strong background in retail math, sales planning, forecasting, and wholesale business drivers.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, and data analysis.
• Experience with wholesale fashion systems, including NuORDER, RLM, and MicroStrategy.
• Comfort using AI-enabled tools, including Microsoft Copilot, for analysis, presentations, and productivity.
• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
• Collaborative leadership style with a high level of ownership and accountability.
• Interest in fashion, product, and evolving consumer trends.

Compensation & Benefits

• Paid time off and holiday calendar
• Summer Fridays
• 401(k) match and paid parental leave
• Wellness and commuter benefits
• Employee discounts, internal mobility opportunities, and exclusive employee sales

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process. Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the interview and application process.

We’re partnering with a highly respected premium bag and accessories brand looking for an experienced Accessories Product Designer (Luggage & Backpacks) to help shape the future of its product line while maintaining the craftsmanship and attention to detail it is known for.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in hands-on product development and enjoys taking products from concept through production while collaborating closely with leadership, pattern makers, sample makers, and manufacturing partners.

*They are open to candidates that are not based in Seattle (that can travel quarterly to Seattle). Or a Candidate that will relocate on their own.*

What You’ll Do:

• Design backpacks, travel bags, work bags, accessories, and other sewn soft goods from concept through production. (Luggage most important).
• Create innovative product concepts while staying true to the brand’s design philosophy.
• Develop product architecture, organization, usability, comfort, and construction solutions based on customer needs.
• Create sketches, technical drawings, tech packs, specifications, and construction documentation.
• Build, evaluate, and refine multiple prototype rounds.
• Partner directly with pattern makers, sample makers, sourcing teams, and production.
• Select materials, hardware, foams, webbing, zippers, and components.
• Conduct competitive research, wear testing, ergonomic evaluations, and prototype reviews.
• Collaborate with executive leadership on the annual product roadmap, new product opportunities, and development priorities.
• Help improve product-development processes and documentation standards.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience designing backpacks, bags, luggage, outdoor equipment, or other sewn soft goods. *Luggage is really Important*
• Direct experience developing commercially produced backpacks.
• Strong portfolio showcasing products that have gone into production.
• Deep understanding of bag construction, sewing methods, pattern development, materials, hardware, and manufacturing.
• Experience taking products through the full development lifecycle.
• Strong sketching, technical drawing, and visual communication skills.
• Experience creating production-ready specifications and construction documentation.
• Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator and CAD or 3D design software.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Experience:

• Technical, outdoor, travel, cycling, military, or performance backpack design.
• Suspension systems, shoulder straps, back panels, framesheets, and structured carry systems.
• Working directly with domestic and overseas factories.
• Wear testing, ergonomic evaluations, and customer research.
• Premium textiles, laminates, foams, molded components, and custom hardware.
• Experience balancing design, manufacturability, cost, quality, and customer experience.

Compliance and Quality Assurance Coordinator

Position Overview: As the Compliance Coordinator, you will be responsible for coordinating daily communication between Factories/Suppliers and internal related departments to ensure factory compliance and customers/brands product quality expectations (Testing and inspection) are met.

Responsibilities:
• Evaluate products to ensure compliance with ULAC testing standards and customer testing requirements by examining physical product samples with cross-functional teams.
• Provide support onboarding and setting up New Factories/ Suppliers.
• Ongoing assurance of Factories/Supplier’s adherence to different Brands/Retailers/Customers Social & Environmental compliance, Security Audit and Quality audit.
• Proactively work with Factories/Supplier on remediation plans to improve factory’s compliance rating.
• Communication daily with Factories/Suppliers to request required regulatory and performance testing for softlines and hardlines product.
• Evaluation of testing reports for Softlines and hardlines product.
• Manage and resolve testing failures and non-compliance with Factories/Suppliers and Retailers.
• Ensure testing requirements for major retailers.
• Maintain documentation and update testing status on internal systems.
• Communicate potential issues to cross function teams.
• Issue General Conformity Certificate to suppliers upon receipt of all required passing test reports.
• Coordinate with 3rd party testing lab and audit firm to finalize testing protocols, reviewing testing charges and audit programs.
• Good understanding of Apparel sustainability initiatives, For example: Higg Index, GRS, RCS, GOTS, etc.
• Perform any other duties as requested by management in support of the company needs and operations

Qualifications:
• MUST have a fashion/apparel background.
• Minimum 2 years of work experience in some capacity associated with apparel production, product testing and/or factory compliance.
• Knowledge of US federal and state safety regulations for apparel, including CPSC, CPSIA, and CA Prop65.
• Experience with testing programs and factory compliance of major retailers, including Walmart, Costco, Kohls, a plus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products, Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines consistently.