Technical Design Assistant, Handbags

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Technical Design Assistant, Handbags

Responsibilities:

• Create, update, and maintain master silhouette templates utilized across seasons.
• Partner with Product Development teams to identify and resolve technical issues, provide options to meet margin targets while preserving design intent. Ensure all comments are clearly communicated to appropriate teams and partner to meet shared goals.
• Create full scale sketches as needed for design review. Examples include detailed specs, proportions, artwork layouts and placements, embossing scales and layouts, and embellishment placements.
• Create CADs for color options, color blocking, and platform animations.
• Create full scale technical sketches and specs to build cohesive collections.
• Contribute insight into new silhouette development , providing technical callouts while reviewing the line to ensure consistancy in design language.
• Maintain all elements of a Design Card through development process and commercialization including detailed sketches of all views, dimensions, proportions, materials placement, hardware and thread lists. Maintain clarity of information througought the process.
• Review samples for corrections including aesthetics, dimensions, hand feel, functionality and workmanship.
• Responsible for delivering all design cards for handoff milestones.
• Provide options, mock ups, and revisions as needed during the development process.
• Maintain integrity of the product by applying established standards, details, and workmanship callouts.
• Own design card review on behalf of Design for technical accuracy, suggest options to achieve aesthetic intent and ensure design elements are consistent across collections.
• Key communicator of technical information to achieve design intent.

Qualifications:

• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced design environment.
• Leathergoods product construction and engineering knowledge required. Broad knowledge of industry construction standards and manufacturing, including materials. (hardware, leather, fabric)
• Keen attention to detail as it pertains to individual products and the line as a whole.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Illustrator; ability to CAD in fast paced environment.
• Thorough understanding of the design & development process from inception through production; experience working with global factories a plus.
• 0-2 years work experience in technical design with focus on handbags/leathergoods.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving abilities, resourcefulness, and organizational skills. Ability to take initiative on projects and design solutions.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.

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