About the Role
In this role, you will work in an energizing, inclusive, and creative environment focused on concepting and creating sustainable products that exceed customers expectations. Your goal is to partner with cross-functional team members who collectively are responsible for ensuring that the product style fit and quality are more than worth the price for our customers. You will manage and direct a creative design team that is responsible for setting the overall global design direction for the product line. Must lean into risk-taking and be customer curious.
What Youll Do
• Lead team through all aspects of the product design process, providing creative direction, coaching, and developing a motivated, high-performing team. • Research global markets to identify new seasonal trends, silhouettes, fabrics, techniques, product categories, and competitive inspiration. • Develop overall design vision and concept for product area, advocating and presenting strategies to internal leadership and cross-functional partners. • Develop strong internal cross-functional relationships with Merchandising, Production, Technical Design, Gap Inc., Sourcing, GIS, Visual Merchandising, 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 the vision behind fit and product design, ensuring execution quality and desired margin targets are achieved. • Collaborate and lead others in key design initiatives and their implementation. • Responsible for planning budget and end results, setting policies and strategic direction for the design team.
Who You Are
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment with the ability to juggle multiple seasons at one time and track development deadlines.
Ability to lead, influence, and develop a high-performing team of designers.
Possess an elevated sense of style, aesthetic, and color, and understand how to translate trends through the lens of the customer and brand filter.
Strong computer knowledge, including Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel.
Able to filter, prioritize, analyze, and validate potentially complex, in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures throughout the product creation process related to garment construction, hand sketching, and fabric, as well as understanding of procedures and concepts in other areas such as merchandising, product development, mills, and vendors.