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Director of Design
Stitch Fix
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Director of Design, Kids
About the role
Stitch Fix is looking for an experienced leader with Design and Product Creation expertise to delight our clients and ultimately grow our business. A key member of the Kids’ leadership team, the Design Director-will develop and lead the execution of our Exclusive Brands (Private Label), meeting the growing needs of our clients while simultaneously delivering our financial goals and business objectives. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional design, color, trend, and concept talent, strategic orientation with robust critical thinking and analytical skills, and a belief that we are “better together” through deep and strong partnerships across our team.
You’re excited about this role because you will...
• Strategically hire and manage a team of freelancers and create a freelance rolodex that has the right talent for each business need while ensuring that the freelance spending is on budget.
• Lead the Kids design process and calendar to ensure there is a pipeline of print, pattern and graphics that drive a significant contribution. Further enhance our processes and calendar in order to improve efficiency and results.
• Lead cross-functional communication regarding design workload, merchant deadlines, etc. and help the team prioritize in order to ensure deadlines are met.
• Communicate with factories and with freelance designers to take designs across the finish line; including leading graphics approval process with legal and PR, reviewing color and strike offs, ensuring product execution aligns with intent.
• Drive trend, pull the team into the future, and push for us to move forward and move on. This will include ensuring a balance between new, refresh and reorder product mix, leveraging insights from Data Science, Planning, and seasonal/trend insights.
• Partner with Kids’ Leadership team to identify and plan for product expansion opportunities.
• Design print, pattern and graphics as needed.
• Ensure the right penetration of graphics, prints and patterns for our youngest, toddler clients as well as the right penetration of sophisticated, edgier assortment for our 10-14 year olds. In addition, you will pioneer new ways to interpret color, graphic, print and pattern trends for toddlers.
• Create and communicate options during costing to deliver good / better / best product tiers on margin target while maintaining quality standards that meet our targets and our clients’ expectations.
• Partner with Tech Design in order to react to silhouette and fabric trends and opportunities.
• Create/Hone vision for our Kids Exclusive Brands (EB) and execute consistently in support of our strategic pillars; be the ambassador of the EB Aesthetics and rend by brand.
• Develop and execute seasonal concepts including graphics, print/pattern, silhouette, fabric, color and detail direction across our Exclusive Brands. Educate Buying team regarding trends prior to market trips.
• Develop and grow best-in-class product talent (formally and informally) to support career aspirations and best selves; Create conditions where teams can do their best work.
• Evolve design capabilities leveraging data science and human creativity to create breakthrough product ideas, for example: you will dive into 3D software together with Tech Design team.
• Cultivate strong vendor partnerships in a way that is consistent with Stitch Fix Values and helps to evolve the greater creative ecosystem.
• Act as our clients’ advocate – instill in team the necessity of using client data and partnership with Data Science to guide decision making while also advancing our assortments to delight clients.
• Drive/support continuous improvement efforts to foster innovation and strengthen teamwork.
• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional team to achieve strategic priorities and goals.
• Ensure pricing is clear and fair so that the price/value/quality relationship across product offer should be evident and easy for our clients to understand.
We’re excited about you because…
• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Product Development or a related field
• You have a minimum of 10 years of Design/Product Creation experience with at least 5 years spent in a Kids business
• You have kids graphic, print and pattern design experience and expertise
• You have managed and led a multi-category, multi-function team
• You are a confident leader with a pioneering spirit
• You are passionate about product and ensure that all decisions are anchored in the client’s best interest
• You are motivated by the use of data to enable an optimal client experience
• You are effective in both strategic orientation and consistently strong execution
• You excel in an evolving business where change is the norm and can keep your team focused during times of ambiguity and change
• You are comfortable taking calculated risks to achieve results
• You have superior oral and written communication skills
• You are curious with a high degree of learning agility
• You are a creative “dot connector” and problem solver
• You are dedicated to developing talent and creating conditions where teams thrive
• You are able to work out of our San Francisco, CA HQ Office
• You are able to travel up to 20% of the time
Why you will love working at Stitch Fix…
• We are a group of bright, kind and goal oriented people. You can be your authentic self here, and are empowered to encourage others to do the same!
• We are a successful, fast-growing company at the forefront of tech and fashion, redefining retail for the next generation
• We are a technologically and data-driven business
• We are committed to our clients and connected through our vision of “Transforming the way people find what they love”
• We love solving problems, thinking creatively and trying new things
• We believe in autonomy & taking initiative
• We are challenged, developed and have meaningful impact
• We take what we do seriously. We don’t take ourselves seriously
• We have a smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right & is open to new ideas
• We offer competitive compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits
• You will be proud to say that you work for Stitch Fix and will know that the work you do brings joy to our clients every day
About Stitch Fix
Stitch Fix is redefining retail shopping using a unique blend of art and science to deliver a deeply personalized service to our customers. This novel juxtaposition—at once analytic and artistic, technical and adventurous—attracts an extraordinary collection of talented people who are both thinkers and doers. Our diverse workforce has catalyzed enormous company growth over the past three years in terms of customer satisfaction and service efficacy. We’d love for you to help us carry on the trend.