Assistant Designer, Collabs & Partnerships

About the Role

In this role, you will work in an energizing, inclusive, and creative environment focused on concepting and creating elevated, sustainable product that exceeds customers’ expectations through meaningful collaborations. Your goal is to assist in designing the product line, preparing sketches and assist with basic specifications of the product. You will work actively on the development of collaboration capsules and partner collections across Adult and Kids, ensuring each story feels new, culturally relevant, and true to our brand DNA. Must lean into risk taking, be customer curious, and have a strong point of view on what’s next in collaborations.

What You'll Do

• Assist Designers in preparing sketches and CADs for digital presentations and focusing on the follow up of each style.
• Assemble and maintain presentation boards for internal and external meetings, including Miro and CADs.
• Assist Designers in weekly fittings working closely with the PD and Tech teams to ensure all styles are to the highest standard.
• Research global markets to identify new seasonal trends, silhouettes, fabrics, techniques, product categories and competitive inspiration—with strong emphasis on the collaborations landscape and cultural “heat”.
• Maintain strong knowledge of market competitors and current hot collaborations; translate insights into actionable concepts and opportunities.
• Develop strong internal cross functional relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical design, Gap Inc Sourcing (GIS), and Marketing to ensure product concept to store and site execution is a seamless customer experience.
• Partner with Production and Tech Design to create tech packs and communicate vision behind fit and product design, ensuring execution, quality, and desired margin targets are achieved.
• Assist Designers in assembling and maintaining presentation boards for internal and external meetings, including Miro and CADs.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design.
• 1-3 years design experience.
• Past Collaborations and Licensing experience is a plus.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment, with the ability to juggle multiple projects at one time and track development deadlines across multiple partner workstreams (Adult and Kids).
• Possess an elevated taste level and deep understanding of how to translate trends and cultural moments through the lens of the customer and brand filter.
• Ability to spot emerging opportunities early and build a compelling case for “the next cool” potential collab.
• Strong collaboration mindset and comfort interfacing directly with internal cross functional teams with the ability to build relationships and drive alignment.
• Thorough knowledge and focus on silhouette, fit, fabrication, construction, color use, sewing techniques, and trims.
• Proficiency Adobe Suite, Miro and Microsoft Excel.
• Experience in Centric and CLO is a plus.
• Evaluate sometimes complex situations using multiple sources of information (internal and external sources), including customer insights, trend research, cultural signals, and performance learnings.