Senior Garment Technologist

Rise & Fall is one of the UK’s fastest growing startups, reshaping how people buy better. We offer exceptional clothing and homewares, made by the world’s best manufacturers, at prices that are 40–80% lower than traditional luxury.

We are the antithesis of fast fashion, committed to sustainability, quality, and conscious consumption. We’re a certified B Corp, use organic and natural materials wherever possible, and are proud to have donated over £30,000 last year to homelessness and women’s support charities.

We’ve shipped over 500,000 products, we have been on a rocketship trajectory and are hugely ambitious, with recent launches in the US and Australia. We’re on a mission to become one of the largest luxury goods retailers in the world in the next 10 years and significantly reshape the industry as we grow.

If you'd like to join us on this wild journey, then read on below and join our incredible team

About the role

This is a Senior level Garment Technologist role. You will be responsible for supporting the technical function, ensuring the technical integrity, fit, and quality of garments in multi-product categories, maintaining the brand's aesthetic, and driving continuous improvement in garment production processes.

We're a small team, which means the person in this role won't be one technologist among twenty. You'll work closely with our Head of Product Development and Technical Lead to own garment technology across the entire clothing offer — menswear and womenswear — from knitwear, jersey, wovens to leather, casual wear, formal wear to outwear.

This is a role for someone who wants the scope. We work as a team to achieve world class product, and efficiency whilst maintaining an eye for detail is essential. We’re looking for someone who enjoys problem solving, seeks to implement and improve process, and tells us what good looks like.

The type of person you are and your values are just as important to us as your skills and experience, as we are passionate about building an exceptional team of people who work well together.

What do those values look like?

• Customer obsessed
• High-performance
• Take the initiative
• Feedback is a gift
• Enjoy the Ride

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the fit and sealing process and owning responsibility for the execution of the final fit of all products as agreed with product teams.
• Technical Strategy & Vision:
  Fit and construction excellence for the products. Supporting the development of consistent fit blocks and size specifications alongside our Head of Technical, ensuring optimal fit, quality, comfort, and wearability that reflects the brand's aesthetic and thereby reduce return rates due to fit and quality to achieve company KPI
• Ensure that tech packs are updated with fit comments, specifications, and vendors are informed in line with the critical path requirement dates.
• We’re a small team, so owning the day-to-day admin of measuring samples, preparing for fit sessions and archiving protos is essential too.
• Join weekly team meetings to ensure critical path deadlines are on track, and business objectives are met, and to facilitate problem-solving and process optimization.
• Be the technical point of contact for our manufacturing partners, giving clear, actionable feedback that resolves issues rather than passing them on. Ensure digital technology is embraced (such as VC fit meetings, AI) and to evaluate and implement new digital technologies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the garment development process.
• Approve testing, care labels and trims, and sign off the technical documentation needed at seal, following RF manual and guideline and ensure products meet relevant safety, legal, and ethical compliance standards in target markets.
• Review and approve AQL inspection…