Location: HQ - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Status: Full-time / 100% on-site
Compensation: $55,000 - $65,000 annually
Position Summary: KITH Kids is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Assistant Designer to support the kid’s design team across multiple apparel categories and seasons. In addition to providing design administrative support, you will work closely with the Senior Designer to bring creative products to life from initial concept. This is a great role for an early-career designer with knowledge of apparel design and a strong understanding of the KITH brand identity. The team is looking for a team player who is highly organized and possesses a natural eagerness to learn and grow within a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
- Support the Senior Designer with detailed CAD sketching, tech pack and BOM creation, and artwork scaling for all seasonal and collaborative collections.
- Take thorough notes during all weekly fittings to support design and production comments.
- Help prepare and build out accurate and detailed sample and submit comments during production stages.
- Routinely update all master files, sketches, and organize shared drives.
- Communicate with overseas partners during development and production stages.
- Organize and maintain fabric libraries.
- Develop and create new trim artworks for seasonal developments.
- Conduct trend and market research to support seasonal concept development.
- Assist with sample, trim, and fabric development throughout the design process.
- Support the team in managing multiple product categories and seasonal timelines.
Special Projects/Tasks
- Ownership of specific styles across multiple seasonal collections.
- Capable of managing multiple projects and tasks weekly while adapting to varying deadlines and business needs.
- Create strong professional relationships with cross-functional partners both in-office and overseas.
- Learn how to effectively manage projects and communicate professionally with internal teams, vendors, and development partners.
Requirements
Experience
- 1-2 years of experience in apparel design
- Experience in tech pack creation
- Experience working within PLM systems preferred
Skills
- Strong computer skills in Adobe Illustrator and CAD sketching
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Extremely detail-oriented
- Demonstrates proactiveness and strong problem-solving skills
- Strong note-taking skills
- Knowledge of general apparel construction
- Knowledge of fashion textiles and terminology
- Must be able to handle multiple priorities with the ability to swiftly adapt and pivot as business needs evolve
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and professionally with internal and external partners
- Contributes positively to team dynamics
- Must be able to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality where appropriate
- Experience with 3D design programs is a plus, but not required
Who You Are
Professional Characteristics:
- Self-starter
- Team player
- Resourceful
- Proactive
- Organized
- Accountability
Personal Characteristics
- Eager
- Curious / Willingness to learn
- Enthusiastic / Optimistic
- Creative
- Innovative Thinker
- Adaptable
- Engaging
Who We Are
Established in 2011 in New York City, Kith is a lifestyle brand and specialty retailer that offers seasonal collections of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel, accessories and footwear through a distinct lens of personal storytelling. Kith embodies a multi-faceted lifestyle, with uncompromising detail to fabrication and design. Led by Founder, CEO and Creative Director Ronnie Fieg, the brand is known globally for evoking nostalgia from a dynamic point of view, and working closely with a carefully selected set of best-in-class collaborators.
Kith operates 16 standalone boutiques around the world, and 3 shop-in-shops. Kith Treats, conceived from Fieg’s childhood love for cereal, operates in 10 locations, as well as Sadelle’s at Kith restaurants in Paris, Miami Design District, Toronto and Seoul.
The Kinnect Foundation, a non-profit established and operated by Kith, is a non-profit devoted to creating positive change through education, community and social impact.
Kith is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All career opportunities offered by Kith are fully on site, and if contacted, all email communication will come from a kith.com or kithnyc.com email address. Please note that any correspondence from an alternative email domain, or offering anything other than in-person work, is fraudulent.
