Job Description:
Overview:
The Assistant Designer will provide overall support to the Design team by assisting in preliminary design research, creating tech packs and assembling presentation boards and materials.
Key Accountabilities:
- Create CAD sketches of styles in development, inclusive of trim as needed
- Help maintain seasonal design catalogs
- Work closely with designers to create, update and prepare technical packs for sampling
- Coordinate and upload sample packages and provide color and reference samples to the sample room as necessary
- Track and update the design sample schedule to ensure deadlines and sample production milestones are being met
- Contribute to complete landscape of brand research
- Maintain product development logs, line sheets, fabric and color library, design archives library, and inspiration boards
- Receive and review samples with designers and send sample comments to the sample room
- Email sales when new samples are received
- Meet all deadlines in adherence to the seasonal design calendar
- Special projects as assigned
Required Skills/Abilities/Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Design
- 1+ years of experience in related field and/or strong internship experience
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite
- Excellent organizational and communication skills with attention to detail
Consistent in-office presence is vital to the role as it is for all Haddad Brands team members, so that we all have a full appreciation, aesthetically and tactilely, of the qualities that define our brand partners’ products and set them apart from their competitors.
