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As a Creative Apparel Design Lead, you are expected to be a driver of innovation. Your influence is felt both internally as well as externally with Brand HQ partnership. Your goal is to raise the bar on the team\'s execution year over year. You will continue use your advanced design skills to create Market Right Product, influence the policies of the Apparel Lab, and develop teammates. You will work with design leadership and partner teams to ensure design feasibility to meet price points and merchandising needs in accordance with the Timing & Action Calendar deadlines. You will have proven your ability to design across Brands, Genders and Product Categories to obtain this position. You will need to be able to communicate and present Design Proposals/Concepts that encapsulate all aspects of design - color, fabric, silhouette, trim, fit, construction, & marketing. You will need to be able to liaison with key partner teams in Technical Design, Brand, Sourcing, QA, Country Managers and Graphics. This opportunity involves maintaining deep understanding of current trends. Participation in activities that will increase understanding and working knowledge of market is obligatory. Must be able to act as a seamless extension with aligned Brand HQ (ie: UA, Champion, etc...)

At a Creative Apparel Design Lead level, you are expected to use talents to propel new concepts, projects, and procedures. You will influence the product development process. We expect that the individual has mastery of workload (all functions associated with Sr CAD) and is acknowledged as Design Leadership. Additional expectation is that the individual is interested in developing emerging talent and shaping the team.

Works far beyond job scope and seeks opportunities for impact in the organization

Contributes to both the team structure and execution expectations; is a key contact for that area

Projects budget needs for area of responsibility

Is the main interface with external partners

Job Responsibilities

Leadership Skills:

• Has proven self as an employee and is interested in developing teammates
• While new to mentoring emerging talent, the individual has shown multiple examples of willingness to step into this position
• Has done work to prep self for this position

Conceptual Design Skills:

• Able to present at high level to both internal & external partners
• Able to influence design direction both internally & externally
• Able to build full circle design concept against White Space opportunities & to pitch to partner teams
• Able to break projects out & to influence budget accordingly
• Able to look at workload needs & identify talent opportunities
• Proven ability to apply & perform design skills such as drawing/sketching, color concepts, use of fabric & trim, as well as visual presentation & layout
• Ability to analyze trends; break them into mega, niche or landscape categories and develop a compelling Ideation distilling the trends to partner teams
• Ability to track and design into fit/ratio/proportion changes in market and interpret them thru the lens of our niche market. Further ability to present these trends in customer facing visits and sales meetings.
• Ability to find, research, and create innovative fabrics and trims. Able to identify potential problems and proactively address before committing to the Line
• Ability to identify key colors and/or develop colors into interesting, market-right color palettes in fabric, trim, print/patterns. Further ability to execute into well merchandised lines
• Able to develop clear, illustrated flats of garments that can be used to decide line worthiness & technical execution
• Able to un erstand Brand\'s requirements (via Line List) and meld concepts with the Ideation & Fabric/Trim development. Further ability to present ideas persuasively, passionately and technically to partner teams
• Able to understand and communicate construction concepts well enough to translate, with technical design, into measurement specs and technical drawings
• Able to work on the aesthetic execution of fit with Technical Design in the build process

Business Acumen:

• Understanding of business is at a corporate level, not just area of expertise
• Able to lead or contribute to cross-functional teams for the betterment of the organization
• Is acknowledged as an internal expert whose guidance is sought by the organization
• Excellent ability to create market appropriate product designs at key price points
• Influences the development of and adherence to the Timing & Action Calendars
• Proven ability to identify and capitalize on shifts in the market, consumer interests, and technology
• Demonstrates excellent communication in all forms

BOM Builds:

Influences how BOMs are built, implements change and updates to meet changing business needs

Distill sketch/color ups and materials into an organ