Lead Sleepwear Designer – Women’s

We are looking for an exceptional

Lead Sleepwear Designer to take creative ownership of a major women’s sleepwear collection for aniconic, nationally recognized American heritage brand.

This is not a maintenance design role.

We are looking for someone who canreimagine, modernize, and build a sleepwear business—bringing a fresh fashion perspective to an established brand while creating product that is highly commercial and relevant to today’s consumer.

The right designer understands that great sleepwear today goes beyond basic pajamas. It sits at the intersection offashion, comfort, femininity, lifestyle, and lounge.

You will lead the creative vision and seasonal development of the collection across:

• Robes
• Sleep shirts
• Soft separates
• Fashion sleepwear
• Seasonal & gifting collections

You’ll develop the line from concept through production, including trend direction, silhouettes, prints, color, fabrics, trims, CADs, presentations, sampling, and final execution.

We want a designer with astrong point of view.

Someone who follows fashion, retail, social media, color, print and lifestyle trends—and knows how to translate those influences into product that can actually sell.

You should be equally comfortable creating a beautiful trend presentation, designing a new silhouette, directing a print, reviewing a factory sample, and sitting with merchandising and sales to determine how the assortment should be built.

You must understand the difference between simply creating attractive product and building a commercially successful collection.

• Establish the seasonal creative direction for the sleepwear collection
• Research global fashion, sleepwear, lounge and lifestyle trends
• Create compelling trend and concept boards
• Develop original prints, graphics, color palettes and seasonal stories
• Design commercially relevant silhouettes with strong hanger and visual appeal
• Create detailed CADs and technical packages
• Source and develop fabrics, trims, treatments and details
• Work closely with overseas factories from initial development through production
• Conduct competitive retail and online market research
• Partner with merchandising and sales to identify white-space opportunities
• Understand different retail channels and design product accordingly
• Review samples for design, fit, construction and overall execution
• Present collections internally and to senior brand/licensing partners
• Help define the long-term creative identity of the sleepwear business

7+ years of women’s apparel design experience, ideally within sleepwear, loungewear, intimates or a closely related category.

Strong experience in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshopis required, along with excellent CAD, print, color and presentation skills.

You should have experience working directly with overseas factories and understand the realities of costing, margin, construction and production.

Experience designing formajor national retailers, department stores, off-price retailers, specialty stores or e-commerceis highly valued.

Most importantly, we want someone who hastaste, commercial instinct and energy—a designer who sees an opportunity and immediately starts thinking about how to make the product better.

You will have the opportunity to helprelaunch and redefine the sleepwear vision of an established American heritage brandwith significant consumer recognition and distribution potential.

We are not looking to recreate what the brand did yesterday.

We want to respect its heritage while creating what itshould look like tomorrow.

This is an opportunity for the right designer to put their fingerprint on a significant new sleepwear business and help build it from the ground up.

Brand identity will remain confidential during the initial application process and will be disclosed to qualified candidates.