Apparel Designer at HireTalent - Staffing & Recruiting Firm Beaverton, OR Job at

Overview

Apparel Designer job at HireTalent - Staffing & Recruiting Firm. Beaverton, OR.

9312-1 – Apparel design. Will work on special project for women’s performance training apparel.

Location: relocation considered if there is a plan (family, friends) to explain.

Conversion/extension: do not over promise. Role is for 6 months and the team will revisit closer to the current end date.

Responsibilities

• Working alongside performance designers for Women’s
• Sketching and working with material pallets
• Understanding garments
• Creating tech packs
• Attending fittings
• Attending strategy meetings
• Trend and market research

Qualifications

• Strong experience with sketching materials, fitting, and creative direction
• 8 years of experience
• Strong technical skills with 2D sketches

Work & Portfolio

• Working on models and sketches

Portfolio

• Needs to showcase women’s apparel design (specifically showcasing Yoga, training, field sports, hip movements, high intensity, or bras/leggings)
• Garment construction and design must be on the portfolio
• Managers want to understand how they think

Tools

• AI tools are nice to have, Photoshop and CLO are strong preferences
• If they have AI, it would be ideation as some of the sketching will be done through AI. How they render ideas using AI
• This position is NOT about creating a beautiful presentation; it’s more on actual designing of products (garments, construction, and building garments and working with materials)

Interview

• 2 rounds of interviews; both will be virtual. 2nd round CAN be onsite if they are curious to see the site and team
• Prepare to speak to breadth of work. Projects they worked on specifically aligned to women’s apparel
• Showcasing women’s performance as they are not looking for someone they can train; they need someone who can hit the ground running day one
• How they approach trends, come up with designs

Previous organization & Competitors

• Anyone who is a direct competitor to Nike will be exciting for the team to want to interview as the pace, team members they work with, meetings they take will be very similar to Nike
• Adidas, puma, lululemon, urban outfitters are some companies
• MUST BE WOMEN’S PERFORMANCE (SPORTS RELATED, TECH WEAR)