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Design Coordinator
Fashion Industry Company
Boston, MA, United States
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This position is responsible for assisting the Classics Apparel Designers in researching trends, ideation of new concepts and creating compelling product to meet the brand aesthetic. The Associate Apparel Designer/Coordinator works with the Apparel team to ensure that each product meets the category’s product brief and the seasonal design direction set by the Creative Director and Senior Management team.
Key Accountabilities:
Technical Communication
• Accurately depict hand-drawn sketches, designs, graphic applications, and ideations as digitally rendered line art, flat patterns, 2D / 3D, technical drawings, and other required art / illustrations
• Create AI-based design boards that depict accurate and complete images of product fabrics, textiles, components, and design
• Effectively and efficiently navigate and use Reebok software tools and systems
• Use appropriate Reebok forms and templates, such as briefs and tech packs, to capture, convey, and communicate design and product information to others throughout the design cycle
• Create technical drawings and representations of fabric, trim, graphic artwork, and products such that construction information is interpreted exactly as intended
• Create design and concept boards to communicate seasonal direction and design theme application to a product or product line
• Create supporting artwork that illustrates design concepts and tells stories
Creativity
• Create new products, graphics, seasonal color palettes, or seasonal vision / concepts using trends in fashion and culture, competition, and Reebok past designs as catalysts
• Translate fashion and culture trends to the brand, products, product lines, design concepts, color, and graphics
• Employ multi-dimensional thinking to ideate and discover new perspectives, view points, or approaches
• Use unorthodox or atypical ways of solving problems to conceive innovative, usable concepts, or inspire other concepts / ideas
Industry, Market, and Consumer Acumen
• Use relevant and appropriate resources to accurately determine, anticipate, and validate current and future trends, competition, retail landscape, and cultural drivers
• Interpret and understand consumer dynamics, predict shifts, and react to trends
• Make accurate assessments and projections of competitors' strengths and weaknesses in the global market relative to the Reebok brand, products, and product lines including market presence, tactics, merchandising, and trends
• Maintain current information of Reebok and industry factors that can affect products, such as material, technology, and consumer feedback and insight
• Employ formal and informal methods to gain insight and to research industry, market, consumer, and competitor information and analyze and summarize research data
• Gather and apply market research and/or consumer feedback to accurately anticipate and fulfill consumer needs and identify consumers and trends
Reebok Design DNA
• Select and ensure color, graphics/prints, materials, fit, and trims enhance product aesthetic, works within overall design range, and overall design has market appeal
• Ensure the product successfully meets the brand aesthetic by adhering to Reebok design DNA fundamentals
• Design products based on accurate assessment of fabric and anatomical characteristics
• Ensure construction, finishing techniques, and textiles enhance product usability
• Select textiles based on their aesthetic, cost, and support of the intended design
• Infuse and apply fashion influences to sports-based lifestyle products or graphics / color and ensure they are integral elements of the design
• Research and apply new and innovative ways to use existing techniques
• Visualize concepts, impressions, and ideas in concrete and tangible ways
• Translate design concepts to products and product lines
• Attend and contribute to review sessions for designs, construction, fit, and/or prototypes
• Ensure design reflects / incorporates market needs and product brief requirements
• Design products that are achievable given construction and manufacturing techniques
• Ensure execution of 2D into 3D / prototypes meets the vision and intent of the original design, margin expectations, and is of high calibre design
• Apply knowledge of Apparel technical processes for draping, flat-patterns, technical trims, fabric classifications, and graphic application
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Communicate with Others
• Transport information effectively in individual and group situations using the most appropriate and effective medium, such as, but not limited to, emails, presentations, meetings, one-to-one situations
• Select content and use language and terminology appropriate to the audience
• Prepare concise presentations, briefings, and email that ensure the intent is consistently and correctly interpreted by recipients
• Convey messages verbally and visually in a clear, concise, and accurate way during meetings, telephone / video conferences such that interpretation is consistent and accurate, and need for clarification is minimal
• Present facts and factual information in a structured and non-ambiguous manner
• Receive and give feedback in a positive, constructive manner
• Convey conceptual information in a concrete and tangible manner
Manage Relationships and Diversity
• Tackle conflicts proactively and finds constructive solutions together with his/her counterparts
Planning and Organizing
• Work independently and perform a variety of tasks with different levels of complexity by developing effective plans and organizing work efficiently
• Meet design calendar deadlines and deliverables
• Participate conscientiously and with accountability in own, cross-department, and cross-function teams, and facilitate effective team outcomes
• Think and act in a goal-oriented manner, and prioritize and complete tasks in order of importance
Minimum Qualifications:
1. 0-18 months of Apparel Design experience
2. Advanced level Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop. Working level Office Excel/Word
3. General understanding of materials related to Apparel design.
4. General understanding of techniques of visual design.
5. Bachelors degree in Apparel, Graphics, Industrial Design, Architecture, Fine Art
In the fall of 2017, the Reebok brand is moving its headquarters to a 220,000 square-foot section of the Innovation and Design Building in Boston’s Seaport District. The move will bring community fitness to a next generation design and innovation space; the all new workplace will foster a vibrant collaborative culture and will allow the brand to be closely connected to the community in Boston. Alongside state-of-the-art office spaces, the headquarters will be equipped with an extensive employee fitness center and a public retail store.