Assistant Designer - Women's Swim

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HOW WE TAKE CARE OF YOU:

• For full time employees, Health, Dental, Vision, 401K with generous matching program, generous paid time off.
• Potential Annual Bonus Opportunity.
• 50% discount at restaurants and retail locations.
• Career advancement opportunities as we are growing!
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SET THE COURSE

To collaborate with and assist the Women's Swim Design team. To participate in the research, design and development of swimwear and resortwear that is consistent with the seasonal direction.

BE THE ISLAND GUIDE

Design & Concept Development

• Assists VP of Swim, Sr. Designer, & Designer, to develop each season’s product line as well as any special developments.
• Participate in seasonal concept building and support design direction research.
• Provide support and communication in trim research and development.
• Assist designers with sketching, computer illustrations, and presentation documents using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Miro
  
  
  

Color, Print & Seasonal Palette Management

• Create and maintain seasonal master palette and fills in Illustrator for sketches
• Create and maintain solid color chart by fabrication for development.
• Receive solid lab dips for all fabrications and provides color comments for vendor and maintain color comment tracking chart in smartsheet
• Create seasonal palette in FlexPLM, including print colorways, fabric & trim.
• Color Illustrator sketches in the seasonal palette for sketch review
  
  
  

Product Development & Technical Documentation

• Create & update BOMs based on Drop Change Memo, fittings and TD/PD requests.
• Attend handoff meetings with TD to review development and help update BOMs
• Create & maintain tech files & provide images in the required format for the Linelist
• Create & maintain jpegs for FlexPLM & Nuorder
• Participation in product development meetings and fittings
  
  
  

Cross Functional Collaboration & Communication

• Daily communication with cross functional team (Including merchandising and wholesale partners), and vendors.
• Partner with Designer of Print, as needed, in effort to support key milestone deliverables.
  
  
  

Presentations, Meetings & Visual Merchandising Tools

• Assist in presentations and milestone meetings.
• Create and maintain fabric wall (virtual and physical) throughout the season with physical strike offs when available.
• Prepare samples/visual aids and assist with adoption and print & pattern meeting set-up.
• Create and maintain digital style boards for the season.
  
  
  

Design Resource & Sample Management

• Maintains design resources and materials such as fabrics, lab dip, trims, and sample references.
• Send, receive, and follow up on packages when requested
  
  
  

Project Management & General Support

• Work to ensure all seasonal deadlines are being met
• Flexible for other duties as needed to help support calendar deliverables and overall business.
• Flexible for ad hoc project as needed.
  
  
  

Essentials For Life In Paradise

• Fashion Degree in Fashion Design or related preferred
• Generally, 1 years women’s design experience
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator sketching and fills, Illustrator and Photoshop print creation, Miro, Bonus if some experience w/Ned Graphics and recoloring.
• Good communication skills (oral and written) - follow up and follow through
• Highly detail oriented
• Experience with the apparel design process from concept to product
• Self-starter and creative thinker who can track to short and long-term calendar deliverables
• Ability to follow through on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to work in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment
• Ability to be a flexible partner and work together as one team
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
  
  
  

Multiple factors will vary the applicable rate of pay for this role, including an individual’s experience, knowledge, and skillset, as well as work location and available budget.

Rate Range: $26.00 to $32.00 per hour

Mahalo (thank you) for your interest in Tommy Bahama!

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