Assistant Designer, Textiles

You will be part of collaborative team of designers who share a passion for textiles, craftsmanship, and creating beautiful products. We thrive on creativity, teamwork, and bringing fresh ideas to life. Working closely with Design, Merchants, and Sourcing, you'll help drive sample development from concept through production while contributing to a culture that values innovation, quality, and continuous learning.

You will be part of collaborative team of designers who share a passion for textiles, craftsmanship, and creating beautiful products. We thrive on creativity, teamwork, and bringing fresh ideas to life. Working closely with Design, Merchants, and Sourcing, you'll help drive sample development from concept through production while contributing to a culture that values innovation, quality, and continuous learning.

As Assistant Designer, you will play a crucial role in supporting the textile Design/Product Development Team .You will work closely with Designers to ensure developments are communicated to vendors overseas. You will support senior design team with day-to-day tasks in design/ development process and assure all deadlines and key calendar dates are met.

• Assist Designers to organize and prepare for the weekly Product Development meetings and Work Sessions
• Assist and support seasonal product presentations to the team and senior management
• Assist Designers with developing specs and concept boards

• Excitement for learning in Textiles
• Ability to provide insights that aligns with team objectives.
• Understand effective processes and procedures to align workflow and results.
• Proactively support calendar to recognize milestones and key dates.
• Recognize key fashion trends and understand what competition is doing
• Maintain and organize development samples both physically and digitally
• Tracks department samples and ensures samples are approved in a timely manner

• Utilize Product Lifecyle Management(PLM) shared with cross-functional teams to review status of development process
• Has strong cross-functional partnership with merchants, sourcing, PD Operations team, and color team.
• Has ability to clearly communicate the needs with vendor partners and sourcing in order for vendors to execute design vision
• Support department business needs and is encouraged to bring new ideas for specs and contribute inspiration
• Have fast learning and problem solving skills to identify existing product issues that may arise

• Organize and coordinate cross-functional meetings with internal partners.
• Open, sort, and organize cross-category shipments.
• Maintain and organize the company archive; support designers with sending, pulling, and tracking archived product.
• Assist with physical product movement, including rugs and other samples, between designated areas.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs daily, as the role includes regular physical activity related to product handling and sample organization.

• Bachelor’s degree in Textile Engineering, Textile Design, Fashion Design, or a related field.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and familiarity with design software/tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite) is a plus.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs daily, as the role includes regular physical activity related to product handling and sample organization.
• This role requires being onsite in the San Francisco office

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