Assistant Designer Jobs

Your Role

The Assistant Designer is responsible for assisting with the creation of commercially viable product designs across collections. They coordinate and deliver brand-right designs that tie back to the overall concept and business strategy; encompassing style, color/print, fit and fabric for new/existing product lines.

Why You Belong Here

At Victoria’s Secret, we acknowledge your value. We recognize that every associate has something unique to add to our brand and business. We strive to recruit, retain, and advance diverse talent that reflects the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work. We foster a culture where everyone belongs because we know our business thrives most when we look for, listen to, and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We place the customer at the heart of everything we do. We dream big, embrace curiosity and creativity while always learning from our mistakes. We lead with integrity, trust, and respect to achieve the best outcomes as one team.

Your Impact

• Communicate ongoing development details to internal partners (i.e. Production, Tech, Merchants) and vendors, ensuring all communication is flowing to the correct people
• Achieve set goals with acute attention-to-detail, tracking progress & anticipating potential issues
• Develop and understand the VS eye/brand identity and specific category
• Track and organize development samples, ensuring they are delivered within required timelines and seamlessly passed off to key parties
• Adapt designs based on feedback, incorporating for finalization
• Partner with technical design on fit and execution of prototypes, assisting with scheduled fittings and necessary follow-up
• Create flat sketches and CAD images
• Pursue/embrace opportunities to personally grow and develop skills/competencies
• Communicate point of view clearly through mood boards and concept tears
• Build and maintain effective relations with key partners
• Deliver design sketches/prototypes and provide clear specifications for construction
• Assist the design team in the creation of brand-right, commercial designs that reflect the conceptual direction/business strategy
• Build and maintain the sample room
• Apply processes to understand/anticipate the needs of the customer in order to exceed customer expectations and readily react to their needs
• Attend routine team meetings and key partner alignment sessions
• Utilize resources in sourcing new ideas, both internally and externally, and stay up to date on competitor research/trend analysis
• Seek to improve process in order to deliver efficiently with speed/agility
• Prepare design team for routine and milestone meetings, including the coordination of line presentation boards/tableaus and selection of product samples

VS&Co provides a range of compensation for this role as shown. Your actual salary will be determined by a number of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic region, or other relevant factors.