Design / Development Job Description
Design / Development Duties & Responsibilities
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Design / Development Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Design / Development
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Education for Design / Development
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Employers hiring for the design / development job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Engineering, Design, Computer Science, Technical, Education, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, Electrical Engineering, Science, Business
Skills for Design / Development
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Design / Development Examples
Design / Development Job Description
- Drive all details of and present the twice yearly Color and Trend Presentation to the organization
- Create and maintain internal and external standards of excellence for product development department
- Assist the team in coordinating catwalk show preparation
- Support backstage at London Fashion Week
- Day to day point person for Design, Merchandising, Materials and Atelier Teams
- Executes design development activities from Concept to Runway/ Lookbook sample and drives issue resolution
- Key product driver managing all aspects of development while engaging Design to ensure aesthetic intent
- Leads early development process by working with Design to establish concepts and aesthetic intentions through sampling for key edit and line presentation meetings
- Manage priorities to meet goals and deadlines
- Create and monitor calendars to ensure timeliness of deliverables
- A strong design portfolio showcasing a variety of skill-sets
- Ability to work and communicate across multiple teams at DDN
- Dependable, efficient and timely
- Must be able to commit to at least 15 hours per week and a 3 month term
- 8-10 years of experience in Retail Design & Planning Project Management required
- 3-5 years of experience managing multi brand teams desired
Design / Development Job Description
- Attend weekly fittings and weekly cross functional team meetings
- Supports the investigation and development of new factories and sample providers
- Prepare and analyze end of season recaps
- 5+ years experience with collection and/or runway, and product development
- Course Development Leadership - Partner with training peers and business partner to assess goals and objectives of initiatives and develops design recommendations and strategies for training deliverables where distance learning (e-learning) is the appropriate vehicle
- Course Design/Development - Story-board and develop e-learning and other content
- People/Team Leadership - Provide leadership to the team, including establishing goals, conducting one-on-ones, PMP, Provide coaching and skill-development to team members
- Learning and Development Strategy - Partner with AWM L&D leadership and business partners to develop annual L&D strategy and training plans
- Strong communication skills for daily correspondence
- Must clearly communicate details of design to production and other cross functioning teams
- Passion and talent for pushing boundaries
- Willing to travel up to 50% of the time if required
- Candidates should be pursuing a Fashion/Product Development/Industrial Design degree
- Prior design related internship experience required
- Exposure to functioning within a regulated (UL, ETL, FDA, ) environment
- Knowledge of fashion design processes, fabric bases and colour
Design / Development Job Description
- Process all late adds to BCBG late-add website and forward details to cross functioning teams in partnership with Design team (including design card, material standards, and red tag)
- Clearly communicate progress and escalate issues to Designer/ Director on a regular basis
- Source new materials and setting up new material vendors in accordance with BCBG vendor policy and terms
- Responsible to set up new material and trim codes in PDM and update/edit as needed
- Negotiate pricing for new materials and trims based upon the direction and targets given my design management/production/merchandising
- Issue purchase orders for sample materials and trims
- Maintain calendar and deliverables for late adds and strategy holds
- Own and drive the customer planning and design engagements, including project/program management of the Structured Design methodology enabled by Infosario Design
- Drive the T and A from Concept through prototype stage for assigned product categories
- Research and interpret market trends and partner with VP of Product Development and Merchant team to create assortments that align to the brand and meet all goals for sales and profitability
- Technical working knowledge of sourcing knit fabrics, knitting and garent manufacturing
- Manage Design Development process from 1st patterns to Production
- Research seasonal Design Direction
- Work closely with Designer
- Sketch proficiently
- Fabric resourcing
Design / Development Job Description
- Shop, understand and report on the competition regularly
- Be the customer advocate for the soma brand
- Establish and cultivate strong relationships with vendors, production, merchandising, technical design, and CAD team
- Develop and execute to the product development calendar in partnership with Director of Production
- Obtain cc counts/line plan from Merchants and effectively communicate to Product Managers
- Visit stores and attend core sets as needed
- Manage the Design Intent process and attend fit wrap up sessions as needed
- Oversee the development by vendor and ensure a 2 to 1 ratio is achieved
- Present at brainstorming and concept meetings
- Partner with Merchants to understand what is working and what is not
- 10 + years of professional experience in merchandising and product management roles, with proven track record of building brands
- Proven project management capabilities with some data modeling / data mapping exposure
- Strong aesthetic and product knowledge of knitwear fabrics and product development, design related experience essential
- Create a Line plan
- Specialization in the Telephony domain, including Contact Centre operations, Interactive Voice Response, Call Routing, Dialer and Voice Biometrics
- Deep technical knowledge of IVR systems is a must
Design / Development Job Description
- Manage the CAD process
- Issue Cut tickets, follow up on cutting requests, sample sewing, and ensure all samples are properly tagged and disclaimed
- Assist with preparation, execution and follow up for Trim Review and Color Standards meetings
- Assist in the coordination of all sample materials, including fabric, trim and send outs for Green Tag samples
- Assist in finalization of PDM folders for all styles in development
- Assist in release of styles to Production, including pattern releases, estimate yields, costing samples and design cards with adherence to deadlines, accuracy and quality
- Assist in the release to Duplicate Sample Coordinators for duplication
- Help with tasks as assigned by Designer
- Attend status, costing and post market meetings
- Schedule and set up and attend all fabric appointments and trend presentations
- Ability to translate Business requirements to effective and efficient technology designs
- Strong written and verbal communication, and relationship skills
- Ability to create comprehensive and well defined statement of work (SOW)
- Financial accumen related to the review and interpretation of contractual documentation, development of payment schedules, and related negotiation
- Project risk and compliance experience/knowledge
- Ability to learn, observe, translate and recommend improvements and new functionality to current systems and related components and align with Business strategic goals