This is an on-site role based in Nashville, TN. Travel to Global Headquarters in Bowling Green, KY required as part of on-boarding.
The Bra Designer creates commercially viable, consumer-driven bra designs that strengthen brand identity, meet seasonal development milestones, and deliver product solutions aligned to fit, construction, quality, cost, and margin expectations. This role translates trend, consumer, and business insights into successful product concepts and partners cross-functionally to move ideas from design through adoption and customer presentation.
Key Outcomes:Consumer-Driven Product Design · Delivers bra concepts, silhouettes, CADs, line drawings, and prototypes that reflect brand strategy, consumer needs, fit expectations, and seasonal assortment direction. · Translates trend, marketplace, and consumer insights into designs that strengthen brand relevance and support commercial growth. · Creates product solutions that balance comfort, support, aesthetics, wearability, and consumer value. |
Cost-Conscious Product Development · Selects fabrics, components, pad constructions, and molding solutions that achieve the desired user experience while supporting target cost, quality, and margin goals. · Partners with Product Engineering and suppliers to evaluate construction options, resolve feasibility concerns, and protect design intent. · Makes informed trade-off recommendations that support consumer appeal, manufacturability, and profitability. |
Seasonal Calendar Execution · Moves design work through the seasonal product development calendar with timely decisions, accurate technical direction, and clear communication to cross-functional partners. · Completes design deliverables, sample reviews, revisions, and presentation materials on schedule to support line development milestones. · Anticipates issues that may impact timing, quality, or adoption and proactively escalates solutions. |
Cross-Functional Line Adoption · Partners with Merchandising, Marketing, Product Engineering, Mold Technicians, Fabric Development, suppliers, and customers to refine designs, support assortment decisions, and drive successful product adoption. · Communicates design intent clearly through sketches, CADs, tech packs, sample feedback, and presentation materials. · Incorporates stakeholder feedback while maintaining alignment to brand direction, consumer needs, and business priorities. |
Category and Trend Leadership · Maintains strong category expertise through competitive shopping, marketplace research, best-seller analysis, and trend translation that informs new style creation and current style evolution. · Identifies opportunities to refresh existing products, introduce new solutions, and address emerging consumer preferences. · Shares relevant trend and competitive insights that help shape seasonal design direction and assortment strategy. |
Process Excellence: Improves and follows design and development processes that enable efficient seasonal execution, accurate technical handoffs, and consistent product outcomes. |
Customer and Consumer Focus: Designs with the end consumer, internal customers, and external customers in mind, using feedback and marketplace insight to shape product decisions. |
Action Oriented and Results Driven: Prioritizes work, takes initiative, and drives timely completion of design deliverables that support business, assortment, and customer commitments. |
Decision Making and Problem Solving: Uses facts, category knowledge, fit evaluation, construction expertise, and cost considerations to solve design challenges and make sound product recommendations. |
Technical Design Expertise: Applies strong bra construction, pad development, molding, fitting, grading, sketching, and system skills to deliver designs that are technically feasible and commercially successful. |
We offer the following:
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1851 |
| Website | http://www.fotlinc.com/ |
Fruit of the Loom, Inc. is a global pioneer, specializing in the design, manufacture, and marketing of a number of iconic family apparel, athletic apparel, and sporting equipment brands including Vanity Fair®, Fruit of the Loom®, Spalding®, and Russell Athletic®. Each of our brands practice the relentless pursuit of better, by striving to create innovative apparel and equipment that fits well, feels great and helps make amazing things possible. Fruit of the Loom, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., actively seeks ways to be best-in-class in social and environmental responsibility in the communities it serves around the world.
Other major national and international brands include JERZEES®, Bike®, AAI®, Dudley®, Sherrin®, BVD®, Underoos®, Lofteez®, Bestform®, Lily of France®, Curvation®, Intima Cherry® and Vassarette®. Fruit of the Loom, Inc., and its brands are driven by innovation, market demands and a strategy clearly focused on meeting consumers' needs. Fruit of the Loom, Inc., Corporate offices are headquartered in Bowling Green, Ky., with operations in 44 countries globally.
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