Womenswear Designer

Location: Manchester (Hybrid) - please only apply if you are UK based and able to commute to our office

Reports to: Head of Product

Six Stories is looking for an exceptional Womenswear Designer to join our growing team. This is an exciting role with huge opportunity for a passionate, dynamic and solutions-focused individual who cares deeply about creating exceptional, market-leading product and, most importantly, the customers who wear it.

We’re looking for someone with a strong creative instinct, a commercial mindset and the drive to make things happen with a sense of ‘today’. Someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, takes ownership and is excited to play a meaningful role in the next chapter of Six Stories.

Design and develop market-leading, commercially successful fashion that strengthens the Six Stories market position. Ensuring a deep emotional connection with our customer through product.

The Fashion Designer at Six Stories brings our product vision to life through creatively and commercially considered product. You will translate the brands intention, commercial objectives and creative aspirations into beautiful, well-constructed pieces chosen for some of the most significant moments in a woman's life.

Working closely with the Head of Product and Co-Founders, you will own the creative development of your ranges from initial concept through to final fit, balancing beautiful design with commercial viability and ensuring ideas and product are maximised.

You will be a hands-on, detail-obsessed designer who understands construction, fabrication and fit as deeply as you understand aesthetic and trend.

You will take your responsibility to create market-leading product seriously and take initiative to problem solve, act quickly and pivot when required.

Guided by the Six Stories values of joy, authenticity, community and quality, you will bring fresh thinking to established bestsellers and help shape new product that feels unmistakably Six Stories.

Design & Range Development

• Design inventive, progressive, on-brand product that push’s boundaries whilst remaining inherently Six Stories in handwriting.
• Own the delivery of market-leading product from first concept to bulk ensuring product interpretation is true to the sign off vision in both short lead and long lead categories.
• Create detailed technical sketches and design packs ready for supplier development.
• Foster positive, solution-based relationships with suppliers.
• Understand the departments CP and deliver in a timely manner to ensure dates are maintained.
• Take initiative to lead new product, categories and ideas as the market demands.
• Understand best-selling product and evolve this with new colourways, fabrications and silhouette variations.
• Design purposeful product and be proud of what you are putting into the world.
• Constantly learning and building a deep understanding for fabrics, techniques and ways product can be moved forward.
• Lead development with suppliers, understanding and tracking progress reporting status updates to the team to ensure product works in-line with departmental CP

Technical & Development Support

• Work closely with GT, suppliers and pattern cutters to translate design intent into accurate, well-constructed samples - Take your responsibility seriously in ensuring samples are true to the signed off vision.
• Lead fittings on your designs along with the Head of Product. Ensuring you are flagging fit, quality and construction issues, and manage revisions with the GT and Buyer through to sign-off.
• Maintain accurate tech packs, BOMs and trim cards throughout the development process and update where necessary in a timely manner.
• Balance creative ambition with costing, lead times and…