Apparel Designer

Hi Everyone,

We're looking for an expert Apparel Designer for designing Tennis Apparels for our client.

Title: Women's Tennis Designer

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 4 months contract

Pay Rate: $55-65/hr on W2

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

This position will report into the Tennis Design Director and will work alongside a team who works on Branded Tennis and Signature Athlete apparel for Women’s Tennis. This role requires experience developing and managing cross-functional relationships with Athletes, Graphic Designers, Product Management & Merchandising, Material/Trim Development, Technical Development and Sourcing teams. This role requires translating consumer & athlete insights and trend right performance product. The right candidate for this role understands that the best way to predict the future is to create it. This role will not have any direct reports.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's Degree in Apparel/Fashion Design or related design field or equivalent combination of relevant education, experience, and training.
• 5 years of relevant work experience in a design environment working with materials, trims, design and fit.
• You have an outstanding ability to apply and perform foundational design skills, including drawing/sketching, illustrations across analog and digital platforms. 3D experience is a plus.
• You are proficient in Adobe Illustrator, concept ideation, color theory and have strong presentation skills along with the ability to convey your design point of view through a variety of visual tools to both internal and external partners.
• You have a comprehensive understanding of materials, fit and performance design.
• You have relevant Apparel/Fashion/Design experience through on-job training and strong portfolio representation. Extra consideration will be given to those with a background in sport performance and sport style innovation.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• You are a Culture-builder who prioritizes team, collaboration and relationships.
• You have a Passion for apparel design, understanding of collection-based design, can balance strong performance acumen as well as style and are a creative problem-solver.
• You are an Elite storyteller with a passion for narrative and improving product.
• You have Strong Focus, Excellent Time-Management and Prioritization Habits.
• You Ask Clarifying Questions and Adapt.
• You Know Why you’re coming to work at Nike.

Notes:

Taking Sr Designers sketches and transferring them into Illustrator, gathering materials, creating mood boards, will act as a liaison between designers and the larger org

Portfolio - wide scope of creative talent, hand drawn illustrations, computer sketches, apparel background clearly shown in Portfolio

Must Have:

5 YOE in apparel design, has the ability to do own sketches

Strong understanding of mood boards, illustrator, and keynote

Personality - no ego, understands they are there to support and help, outgoing, there is a lot of work to get through and being able to stay positive is important, flexible and able to pivot

Nice to Have:

Familiar with Tennis apparel and women's tennis

3D or photoshop experience

HUGE BONUS: knows the process for Nike - very short ramp up period