True Religion Looking for WOMEN’S DENIM DESIGNER at Gardena, California Full Time

THE PURPOSE:

Design women’s denim for True Religion’s growing denim business.

THE ROLE (what you are accountable for)

Design Development

• Research and pull seasonal inspiration tears, put design boards together

• Attend seasonal design and concept meetings

• Be able to take over arching design direction and apply it to Womens denim product.

• Design all women’s denim – both seasonal needs

• Innovation in wash, construction, embellishment, treatment, and fit

• Lead new fabric sourcing & development

• Leading development Fit / seasonal fit intent / & first fittings

• Approve/ Comments on seasonal wash submits

• Manage final approval for bulk production with partnership of Product Development & Production

• Manage workload and design process according to seasonal calendar.

• Responsible for the entire design development process from Initial CADS, Linesheets and BOMs, etc.

Design Administration

• Ownership of Style set up & BOM creation / updates throughout life-cycle of product

• Style Number creation – Fabric codes / body codes / ending codes

• Create line-sheets

Process/Calendar Management

• Partner with Design Director and Creative Director and the rest of the design team to ensure design intent is executed.

• Partnering with SW design to ensure alignment between Denim & Sportswear

• Working closely with cross functional partners: Product Development, Production, Tech and Merch teams to ensure smooth flow of information seasonally.

YOU ARE:

• A skilled designer with experience making jeans that delight women.  

• You are a one-person “end-to-end” designer, who can work at a high-level on concept, innovation, and breakthrough ideas – as well as handle the day-to-day responsibilities associated with developing and bring product to market. 

• Most importantly you understand and have a feel for the customer, understand our DNA and our connection to youth culture.

REQUIRED MINIMUM EXPERIENCE 

• Minimum of 4 year degree from a fashion college

• 4-5 years+ women’s denim design experience

• Technical knowledge and product development experience with denim

Proficient in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE 

• Bachelors in Fashion Design preferred 

• Experience in Full Circle or similar tech pack software preferred.