Assistant Designer, Accessories- Victoria's Secret
Victoria’s Secret & Co. is a renowned fashion retailer seeking an Assistant Designer to aid in creating commercially viable product designs. The role involves collaborating with the design team, delivering prototypes, and ensuring effective communication with internal partners and vendors.
Responsibilities
- Assist the design team in the creation of brand-right, commercial designs that reflect the conceptual direction/business strategy
- Deliver design sketches/prototypes and provide clear specifications for construction
- Build and maintain the sample room
- Create flat sketches, CAD images, and tech packs to scale
- Prepare design team for routine and milestone meetings, including the coordination of line presentation boards/tableaus and selection of product samples
- Communicate ongoing development details to internal partners (i.e. Production, Tech, Merchants) and vendors, ensuring all communication is flowing to the correct people
- Partner with technical design on function and execution of prototypes
- Track and organize development samples, ensuring they are delivered within required timelines and seamlessly passed off to key parties
- Attend routine team meetings and key partner alignment sessions
- Adapt designs based on feedback, incorporating for finalization
- Apply processes to understand/anticipate the needs of the customer in order to exceed customer expectations and readily react to their needs
- Utilize resources in sourcing new ideas, both internally and externally, and stay up to date on competitor research/trend analysis
- Communicate point of view clearly through mood boards and concept tears
- Achieve set goals with acute attention-to-detail, tracking progress & anticipating potential issues
- Pursue/embrace opportunities to personally grow and develop skills/competencies
- Develop and understand the VS eye/brand identity and specific category
- Build and maintain effective relations with key partners
- Seek to improve process to deliver efficiently with speed/agility
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Microsoft Office, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign proficiency; Centric a plus
- Exceptional talent with a commercial fashion eye and detail in product styling/performance
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Customer service philosophy
- Collaborative partner with a team-oriented approach
- Highly motivated, passionate and results oriented
- Solid communication and presentation skills
- Solid understanding and ability to communicate construction instructions
- Champion for change and able to react with speed and agility
- Flexible and creative problem solver
- Personal professionalism and accountability
- Must be able to work a hybrid schedule in our New York City office
- 1 year design experience in a comparable retail environment preferred
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