Sr. Manager, Digital Technical Design

Who We Are

At Rhone, we cultivate a work culture that is empowering and rooted in our core values. We are gritty, approaching challenges with resilience and determination. We are responsible, holding ourselves accountable to each other and the work we do. We strive for excellence, pushing boundaries to deliver our best every day. We remain authentic, embracing honesty, humility, and individuality. And above all, we are team centered, knowing that true success comes from collaboration and shared purpose.

At Rhone, we cultivate a work culture that is empowering and rooted in our core values. We are gritty, approaching challenges with resilience and determination. We are responsible, holding ourselves accountable to each other and the work we do. We strive for excellence, pushing boundaries to deliver our best every day. We remain authentic, embracing honesty, humility, and individuality. And above all, we are team centered, knowing that true success comes from collaboration and shared purpose.

The Sr. Manager, Digital Technical Design leads Rhone’s 3D technical design function — owning the strategy, standards, and team behind how the brand designs, fits, and visualizes product in a virtual environment before it reaches a factory floor. This role leads the CLO 3D Expert(s) and is accountable for how deeply and effectively 3D is embedded across Rhone’s product creation process: determining which categories, styles, and development stages are best suited to 3D-first design, development, and commercialization, and where physical execution still leads.

Equal parts technologist, team leader, and process owner, this person partners closely with Design, Merchandising, and the PCC Technical Design team so that digital work created at HQ carries cleanly into physical production — and champions the tools, training, and workflow improvements that let Rhone get more out of 3D every season. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who understands both the craft of 3D garment development and the operational realities of building performance apparel at scale, and who is genuinely curious about how far the technology can take the brand.

• Lead, coach, and develop the CLO 3D Expert(s) / 3D Technical Designer team — setting technical standards, providing hands-on guidance in CLO 3D pattern making and virtual fitting, and building a clear career path for the discipline.
• Own Rhone’s 3D technical design strategy for assigned gender: define which product categories, styles, and development stages — Concept, Realization, Commercialization — are best suited to 3D-first design, development, and commercialization versus traditional physical sampling, and evolve that approach as the business and technology mature.
• Act as the connective layer between HQ digital fit development and the PCC Technical Designer team — clarifying where 3D work is owned by the brand and where it hands off to in-country pattern development and production readiness, so nothing is duplicated.
• Partner with the Director, Technical Design and PCC leadership to translate the Quality Stages framework into practice — clarifying ownership, decision rights, and hand-off criteria between HQ and PCC at each stage of development.
• Partner with Design, Merchandising, and GTM teams to align 3D outputs — colorways, prints, styling, avatars, fabric simulation — with brand aesthetic and go-to-market timelines.
• Build and govern Rhone’s digital asset library (avatars, block patterns, trims, fabric simulations) as a shared, brand-wide resource, ensuring consistency and reuse across categories and seasons.
• Champion a continuous improvement mindset for the 3D workflow — track cycle time, sample count, and fit-approval metrics, identify friction points, and lead process changes that make 3D development faster and more reliable each season, including enabling digital sell tools.
• Stay current on advances in 3D design, virtual fitting, and digital sampling technology; evaluate and pilot new tools or capabilities that could expand what Rhone can achieve digitally, bringing a genuinely curious, test-and-learn approach to where the…