Apparel Technical Designer
3 days ago
Dallas
Job Description Are you an Apparel Technical Designer ready to expand your impact? This is an opportunity to bring apparel designs to life! This opportunity offers a fast-paced, creative, and highly collaborative environment where your expertise in fit, construction, and product development will drive both quality and innovation within a closely held Western brand. Here, your work doesn't just support the brand - it helps evolve it, giving you exposure to new technologies, global vendor collaboration, and opportunities to take ownership, problem-solve, and make your mark on products that reach a wide audience. Apparel Technical Designer – Your Job Duties: You will work on a small but mighty team, bringing apparel concepts to life, ensuring fit, quality, and consistency across menswear and womenswear collections. You will: Product Development & Technical Execution • Translate design concepts into accurate tech packs, specs, and grading, applying expert patternmaking and garment construction knowledge., • Apply a “right-first-time” approach to fit and product engineering, driving accuracy and reduced iterations, • Build, maintain, and evolve fit blocks, grading standards, and technical libraries, • Lead fittings on mannequins and live models, demonstrating product transformations, • Guide discussions and influence stakeholders to achieve design and fit alignment, • Act as a controller of standards, continuously refining specs, fit, and quality Collaboration & Vendor Management • Partner closely with cross-functional teams, vendors, and factories to deliver on-time production, & Manage calendars, WIPs, and timelines to meet key milestones., • Manage multiple seasons simultaneously, staying highly organized, nimble, and disciplined, • Participate in vendor visits and international travel as needed Innovation & Leadership • Embrace new tools, technologies, and software, contributing to best practices and continuous improvement, • Deep expertise in garment construction, fit, and patternmaking (Gerber Accumark patternmaking experience required), • Strong technical knowledge across menswear and womenswear knits and wovens, developing blocks, adjusting patterns, and providing consistency across products., • Experience creating detailed tech packs, specifications, and grading for diverse product categories, • Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office Suite, PLM systems, • Ability to evaluate and adjust fit blocks, grading, and specs to maintain consistency, • Strong project management skills with the ability to lead through influence and provide timely solutions, • Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design, Apparel Design, or related field Apparel Technical Designer – You Might Have: • Experience with Centric PLM system, • Experience with Clo3D development tool Apparel Technical Designer - Compensation, Benefits, and Perks – For You: • Base salary starting range is $65,000 to $95,000, commensurate with experience, • Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance options, • 401k with company contribution, • Paid holidays, paid time off, supplemental life, supplemental insurances, and more (including a retail clothing discount and stipend!), • This role is in the office, Monday through Friday