Associate Designer, Licensing

## Associate Designer, Licensing Apply:
Atlanta, GA:
Full time:
Posted Today:
JR63280
** Serving the needs of all families with young children,
** Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, Osh Kosh B’gosh, Skip
* Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work, constant learning, genuine people, and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carter's.
** HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT:
** This Design Associate role will support work tied to the Brand Heat & Licensing Team, a cross-functional and agile team focused on driving aspiration and energy through product, storytelling, collaboration, licensing, consumer insights, and culturally relevant brand moments. This role requires a strong sense of trend awareness, urgency, creativity, confidence and the ability to support special projects that move outside of traditional seasonal process timelines.

This role typically reports into a Design Director is based in our Buckhead office in our hybrid/in-office work environment (4 days/week in-office).50% Design Process & Communication
* Support fast-turn concept development for Brand Heat initiatives, including collaborations, licensing capsules, trend-driven storytelling, and culturally relevant product opportunities.
* Prepare polished concept decks, presentation materials, and product boards that clearly communicate creative direction to leadership and cross-functional partners.
* Partner closely with design, merchandising, product development, marketing, brand leadership, and license partners to align on deliverables, provide design feedback, and move work forward.
* Create original prints, patterns, and graphic artwork for collections, and apply them to product sketches and CADs
* Manage day-to-day execution of special projects, including line sheets, Miro updates, silhouette tracking, color palettes, and ongoing communication with internal teams.
* Support product execution through pre-production art review, fittings, sketch updates, and design detail edits that impact final commercialization.
30% Product Line Development
* Support development of special capsule collections and collaboration concepts that may sit outside of core seasonal line architecture.
* Adapt existing silhouettes or create newness for collaboration, licensing, and trend-right product opportunities while maintaining accuracy across style details, graphics, trims, materials, and presentation assets.
* Sketch technical drawings in Illustrator, apply prints and graphics to working line sheets, update the silo matrix, and independently design portions of a program with supervisor mentorship.
20% Creative Concept
* Research consumer trends, popular culture, competitive collaborations, influencers, artists, and licensing opportunities to inform Brand Heat ideation.
* Translate consumer insights and trend research into brand-right collaboration ideas, creative concepts, and storytelling across silhouette, trim, color, print, and graphic direction.
* Contribute to inspiration boards, collaboration decks, sample requests, and presentation-ready creative materials for internal and external reviews.
** WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF:
** Must have:
* Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Miro and Microsoft Office.
* * Must have a portfolio
* ** Experience with graphic design and print and pattern creation.
* Strong visual presentation skills with the ability to help create compelling decks, boards, and concept materials.
* Confidence in leading meetings, presenting concepts and design work, and delivering clear, constructive design feedback to cross-functional partners.
* Strong…