Style Director

REPORTS TO: VP Creative + Operations. Dotted line reporting to Design Director.

Works in close partnership with Creative Marketing, Design, Merchandising, E-commerce, and Wholesale.

Z SUPPLY is an established California Women’s lifestyle apparel brand that is leading the space for casual, comfortable style. Located in the heart of Orange County, we are passionate about staying true to our roots and living a life of good vibes in and out of the office. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Buyer to join our Buying team.

• Establish a clear, ownable styling POV that distinguishes the brand from its peers in the casual lifestyle space.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive Brand Style Guide that governs how Z SUPPLY product looks across all channels: styling, color, texture, silhouette, composition, and overall visual world.
• Ensure that customers experience a cohesive Z SUPPLY brand - from the way the product is designed and styled to how it appears online, in boutiques, at events, and across marketing channels.
• Partner with Design and Creative/Marketing to translate seasonal design direction into a cohesive visual brand point of view - from mood boards and concept development through to final execution.
• Identify emerging trends, cultural shifts, and competitor movements synthesizing them into actionable direction that keeps Z SUPPLY relevant
• Drive operational excellence through effective planning, prioritization, and execution across multiple concurrent campaigns, shoots, launches, and channel needs while meeting critical deadlines.

• Be the brand's most obsessive product eye - deeply understanding each season’s line - from fit, fabrication, and design intent of every piece - translating that into styling choices that serve both brand definition and sell-through.
• Partner with Merchandising, Design, and Marketing to identify both product gaps and product priorities and hero categories — informed by trend, category definition, past performance — anchoring seasonal storytelling, integrated campaigns, and monthly go-to-market planning.
• Partner with Product and Merchandising throughout the seasonal design process to bring styling and consumer perspective to silhouette, color palette, fabrication, and assortment decisions.
• Contribute to how product is photographed, styled, and presented – from wholesale to e-commerce - to tell a compelling story. Champion the idea that how a product is styled is inseparable from how it sells.
• Attend key product reviews and stay aligned with Design and Merchandising on seasonal readiness, product flow, and sample availability - ensuring creative timing alignment each season
• Identify opportunities to redefine how core and hero products are presented; elevating basics and essentials through styling choices that feel fresh and intentional, not generic.

• Lead styling for all brand campaigns, e-commerce photography, and social content — from pre-production (pre-styles, mood development) through on-set execution and post-production review, managing looks and outfit composition on-set with photographers and creative teams.
• Oversee styling for all social content creation, ensuring that Tik Tok, Instagram, influencer, talent briefs + content reflect the same aesthetic sensibility
• Manage external freelance stylists, wardrobe assistants as needed (in partnership with Production)
• Review and approve all creative output for styling consistency before publication — serving as the final eye on visual assets that carry the brand.
• Manage and continuously develop the brand's prop and styling archive — fabrics, textures, objects, and styling elements that…