ABOUT THE ROLE
Location: HQ - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Status: Full-Time/100% on-site
Compensation: $75,000 - $90,000/annually
Position Summary:
Kith Women’s is looking for a Women’s cut & sew, active designer to join their team. This individual will be focused on cut & sew, within the Women's Design team. They must have 3-5 years of experience in apparel design, be knowledgeable of the brand identity and be willing to work on site 5 days a week. The ideal candidate is a team player, accountable, and highly organized. They also possess a natural, yet professional ease at working with and relating to the needs of the business in a fast-paced environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Primary Responsibilities:
- Create illustrator sketches based on allotted assortment per season.
- Prepare complete tech packs across all product categories, in sketch, construction and upload onto development platform with complete BOMs.
- Responsible for supporting design director in execution of women’s product from sketch to techpack through development into bulk production.
- Process/correspondence production comments through illustrator, PLM platform and email.
- Attend bi-weekly fittings and taking notes, and following up with production matters, and processing comments per style.
- Routinely update all master files, sketches and organize shared drives.
- Capable of managing weekly design presentation tools across designated product categories.
- Knowledgeable and proficient in email etiquette for internal and external emails to suppliers overseas.
- Highly organized and meets given deadlines.
- Capable of maintaining positive and professional working relationships with cross functional team members and departments.
Special Projects/Tasks:
- Capable of building market research reports, across designated product categories that pertain and are inline with KITH brand identity.
- Knowledgeable and capable of developing artwork logo developments, trim developments and building trim development charts per season.
- Capable of building construction specific pages for development and finishing details for their respective product categories.
REQUIREMENTS
Experience:
- 3-5 years of experience in apparel design, womenswear specific is a plus.
- Cut & sew knits product category knowledge and construction knowledge in base layer, mid and outer layer.
- Active product category knowledge and construction in base layer tops, bottoms, 1 pc dressing, and mid layer.
- Experience and proficiency in executing production comments.
- Experience and proficiency in executing tech packs across multiple collections in both development and production on the day to to day.
Skills:
- Extremely organized, detail oriented, and analytical.
- Contributes positively to team dynamic.
- Highly knowledgeable of construction and experienced in the following product categories: cut & sew tops, fleece tops and bottoms.
- Highly knowledgeable of construction and experienced in active: tops, bottoms, and 1 pc dressing.
- Strong computer sketching skills in illustrator.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Must be able to handle multiple priorities.
- Possess a natural, yet professional ease at working with and relating to the needs in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
- Must be flexible to adapt to these changing business needs or special projects.
- Must be able to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality where appropriate.
WHO YOU ARE
Professional Characteristics:
- Self-starter
- Team player
- Someone that goes above and beyond
- Organized
Personal Characteristics:
- Responsible
- Curious
- Accountable
WHO WE ARE
Established in 2011 in New York City, Kith is a lifestyle brand and specialty retailer that offers seasonal collections of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel, accessories and footwear through a distinct lens of personal storytelling. Kith embodies a multi-faceted lifestyle, with uncompromising detail to fabrication and design. Led by Founder, CEO and Creative Director Ronnie Fieg, the brand is known globally for evoking nostalgia from a dynamic point of view, and working closely with a carefully selected set of best-in-class collaborators.
Kith operates 16 standalone boutiques around the world, and 3 shop-in-shops. Kith Treats, conceived from Fieg’s childhood love for cereal, operates in 10 locations, as well as Sadelle’s at Kith restaurants in Paris, Miami Design District, Toronto and Seoul.
The Kinnect Foundation, a non-profit established and operated by Kith, is a non-profit devoted to creating positive change through education, community and social impact.
Kith is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All career opportunities offered by Kith are fully on site, and if contacted, all email communication will come from a kith.com or kithnyc.com email address. Please note that any correspondence from an alternative email domain, or offering anything other than in-person work, is fraudulent.
