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Leon Leonwood Bean (L.L. Bean) founded his business on a passion for the outdoors, a profound belief in honesty, and an unwavering commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. Those core values, coupled with a genuine excitement for the work we do, are why L.L.Bean has been a trusted source for quality apparel, reliable outdoor equipment and expert advice for over 100 years.
If you have a talent for bringing new and exciting products to life – with presentations that incorporate great creativity while always keeping results and the brand at the forefront - we’re looking for you! We are currently seeking a Senior Designer for Active Apparel. The successful candidate will conduct and may lead the work of the design area of Men’s and Women’s Active apparel.
Key accountabilities include:
• Creating product aesthetic inclusive of color, pattern and silhouette.
• Partnering with Product Developers and Corporate Merchants in conducting market research to evaluate competitive set, identify seasonal trends, and decide on seasonal concept direction.
• Collaborating with Product Development to select fabric color and trims and relate them to the product design, function and silhouette.
• Creating seasonal corporate color palettes and ensuring on brand, commercial color direction and color compositions.
• Creating and designing silhouette, silhouette direction and garment styling collaborating with Corporate Merchants to recommend fit block to technical design.
• Creating and deciding on brand appropriate / viable surface pattern and print direction.
Responsibilities:
Job Tasks:
1. Strategy (Product Aesthetic, Seasonal Concept Direction, Product Strategy)
• Builds and creates seasonal concept and mood boards to establish and identify key looks, trends, concepts, color, fabric, trim and silhouette direction (or oversees execution by assistant).
• Identifies and communicates seasonal color palettes.
• Creation of corporate seasonal design themes – including silhouette, print, pattern and graphic direction. Ensures cohesive approach across multiple categories if applicable.
• Creation of seasonal trend direction, seasonal trend presentation, seasonal trend and vendor decks.
• Ensures consistency of the highest level of design across all products and categories.
2. Market Research Aesthetic Inspiration and Trend (Conduct Market Research, International Travel)
• Researches and develops brand appropriate trends and product ideas.
• Conduct research on market and competitive brands - domestic travel for inspiration and trade shows (NY Spin Expo/Premier Vision/Print Source).
• May travel internationally for R&D (Ispo/Stockholm, etc.)
• Travel to Asia to meet with mills and vendors for research and product development and to ensure all product is commercialized to the very highest standards.
3. Upfront Planning
• Works with CM (Corporate Merchandise) Managers/DMM to ensure viability of products and product opportunity fills need within the assortment.
• Selects fabric direction for handfeel, drape aesthetic and partners closely with Product Developers to ensure vision of design, margin and target price is met.
• Meets with color and trend services to establish seasonal concept and trends.
• Meets with print and pattern vendors to establish seasonal surface pattern direction.
4. Core Work
• Applies knowledge and expertise to ensure consistency and cohesiveness of line through perfect pairings and cohesive look of the collection and key looks.
• Introduces new and on brand silhouettes and styling details every season.
• Selects all materials and works with lab to ensure trim passes testing (or oversees the selection of trims by others).
• Works with graphics department to instigate graphic and surface pattern direction.
• Present fresh and commercial color and pattern for key items and relist programs to ensure they look fresh and commercial each season.
• Partners primarily with CM Managers on: key product ideas to maximize potential of the assortment, lead the direction of the line / Category, and collaborates to position product lifestyle, wearing occasion and Fit Bucket.
• Communicates with mills and vendors to ensure fabric and all surface pattern is executed to the very highest standard, or oversees others' communication.
• Send out color cards and approve lab dips, strike offs, etc.
• Develop print/pattern/graphics packages for product and hangtags/packaging.
• Present sketches and proto samples at appropriate check-ins and meetings.
• Create and update an accurate pre-production BOM and CC in Lawson.
• Pitches and calls out repeat with all requirements for patterns and prints.
• Partner with PD (Product Development) to finalize product details with vendors.
• In collaboration with PD, creates comprehensive development spec packages and selects fit block suitable for wearing occasion.
• Ensures robust hand off to Technical Design.
• Attends all fittings to provide relevant feedback regarding fit and styling.
• Ensure integrity of design aesthetic and conformance to selected fit block suitable for wearing occasion.
• Attends Retail walkthroughs to ensure retail presentation meets design intent.
• Attends Print / Web walkthroughs to ensure presentation meets design intent.
5. General Meetings/M2M Meetings Responsibility
• Prepares and builds rigs and mannequins for all relevant meetings to clearly show seasonal direction and product ideas, or oversees the meeting preparation.
• Ensures all milestones are achieved and successful. Attends to align on key strategies, initiatives and actions.
If you have a talent for bringing new and exciting products to life – with presentations that incorporate great creativity while always keeping results and the brand at the forefront - we’re looking for you! We are currently seeking a Senior Designer for Active Apparel. The successful candidate will conduct and may lead the work of the design area of Men’s and Women’s Active apparel.
Key accountabilities include:
• Creating product aesthetic inclusive of color, pattern and silhouette.
• Partnering with Product Developers and Corporate Merchants in conducting market research to evaluate competitive set, identify seasonal trends, and decide on seasonal concept direction.
• Collaborating with Product Development to select fabric color and trims and relate them to the product design, function and silhouette.
• Creating seasonal corporate color palettes and ensuring on brand, commercial color direction and color compositions.
• Creating and designing silhouette, silhouette direction and garment styling collaborating with Corporate Merchants to recommend fit block to technical design.
• Creating and deciding on brand appropriate / viable surface pattern and print direction.
Responsibilities:
Job Tasks:
1. Strategy (Product Aesthetic, Seasonal Concept Direction, Product Strategy)
• Builds and creates seasonal concept and mood boards to establish and identify key looks, trends, concepts, color, fabric, trim and silhouette direction (or oversees execution by assistant).
• Identifies and communicates seasonal color palettes.
• Creation of corporate seasonal design themes – including silhouette, print, pattern and graphic direction. Ensures cohesive approach across multiple categories if applicable.
• Creation of seasonal trend direction, seasonal trend presentation, seasonal trend and vendor decks.
• Ensures consistency of the highest level of design across all products and categories.
2. Market Research Aesthetic Inspiration and Trend (Conduct Market Research, International Travel)
• Researches and develops brand appropriate trends and product ideas.
• Conduct research on market and competitive brands - domestic travel for inspiration and trade shows (NY Spin Expo/Premier Vision/Print Source).
• May travel internationally for R&D (Ispo/Stockholm, etc.)
• Travel to Asia to meet with mills and vendors for research and product development and to ensure all product is commercialized to the very highest standards.
3. Upfront Planning
• Works with CM (Corporate Merchandise) Managers/DMM to ensure viability of products and product opportunity fills need within the assortment.
• Selects fabric direction for handfeel, drape aesthetic and partners closely with Product Developers to ensure vision of design, margin and target price is met.
• Meets with color and trend services to establish seasonal concept and trends.
• Meets with print and pattern vendors to establish seasonal surface pattern direction.
4. Core Work
• Applies knowledge and expertise to ensure consistency and cohesiveness of line through perfect pairings and cohesive look of the collection and key looks.
• Introduces new and on brand silhouettes and styling details every season.
• Selects all materials and works with lab to ensure trim passes testing (or oversees the selection of trims by others).
• Works with graphics department to instigate graphic and surface pattern direction.
• Present fresh and commercial color and pattern for key items and relist programs to ensure they look fresh and commercial each season.
• Partners primarily with CM Managers on: key product ideas to maximize potential of the assortment, lead the direction of the line / Category, and collaborates to position product lifestyle, wearing occasion and Fit Bucket.
• Communicates with mills and vendors to ensure fabric and all surface pattern is executed to the very highest standard, or oversees others' communication.
• Send out color cards and approve lab dips, strike offs, etc.
• Develop print/pattern/graphics packages for product and hangtags/packaging.
• Present sketches and proto samples at appropriate check-ins and meetings.
• Create and update an accurate pre-production BOM and CC in Lawson.
• Pitches and calls out repeat with all requirements for patterns and prints.
• Partner with PD (Product Development) to finalize product details with vendors.
• In collaboration with PD, creates comprehensive development spec packages and selects fit block suitable for wearing occasion.
• Ensures robust hand off to Technical Design.
• Attends all fittings to provide relevant feedback regarding fit and styling.
• Ensure integrity of design aesthetic and conformance to selected fit block suitable for wearing occasion.
• Attends Retail walkthroughs to ensure retail presentation meets design intent.
• Attends Print / Web walkthroughs to ensure presentation meets design intent.
5. General Meetings/M2M Meetings Responsibility
• Prepares and builds rigs and mannequins for all relevant meetings to clearly show seasonal direction and product ideas, or oversees the meeting preparation.
• Ensures all milestones are achieved and successful. Attends to align on key strategies, initiatives and actions.