Associate, Designer (Underwear)
About the role
As a designer for Centric Brands, you'll use your skills and creativity to create designs based on style plans, sales needs, and emerging trends. You will ensure your work can be transformed into a finished product in a timely manner and at an appropriate price point. This role involves working with the technical design and production teams, as well as building collaborative relationships with outside vendors and other external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the seasonal cross-functional style tracker (the shared source of truth used by design, sales, planning, PD, and production for sample quantities, approvals, and status).
- Support tech pack construction in PLM: season setup, colorway and BOM entry, and render/art page loading under the Designer's direction.
- Manage the seasonal color chart and physical color ordering process with outside color labs, including tracking receipt and flagging delays.
- Support novelty elastic development: PLM material entry, artwork uploads, and tracking strike-off rounds with suppliers.
- Aid in packaging PLM entry and BOM updates as packaging changes roll through the season.
- Participate in the post-sell-in BOM review working sessions, supporting live correction of BOM data across categories.
- Support GTM handoff logistics: confirming linesheet access, tracking outstanding sample and proto status, and helping prepare materials for sell-in meetings.
- Take on defined pieces of channel variant execution (outlet, off-price, club, or special make-up) as assigned by the Designer or Design Director.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience in apparel design, product development, or a related production/merchandising role.
- Strong Excel skills and comfort with detailed, high-volume data tracking without losing accuracy under deadline pressure.
- Working familiarity with a PLM system is a strong plus; willingness and ability to learn one quickly is required.
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator; InDesign a plus.
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign; experience with 3D visualization tools (e.g. Rhino) is a strong plus, not required.
- Browzwear, Clo High attention to detail and strong personal organization — this role is judged heavily on accuracy and follow-through, not just speed.
- Comfort asking questions and escalating early rather than guessing on ambiguous items, especially early in ramp-up.
Qualifications
- Our Best Fit Candidate Would Have 3-5 years of experience in apparel design, product development, or a related production/merchandising role.
- Strong Excel skills and comfort with detailed, high-volume data tracking without losing accuracy under deadline pressure.
- Working familiarity with a PLM system is a strong plus; willingness and ability to learn one quickly is required.
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator; InDesign a plus.
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign; experience with 3D visualization tools (e.g. Rhino) is a strong plus, not required.
- Browzwear, Clo High attention to detail and strong personal organization — this role is judged heavily on accuracy and follow-through, not just speed.
- Comfort asking questions and escalating early rather than guessing on ambiguous items, especially early in ramp-up.
Skills
- Adobe Illustrator
- InDesign
- PLM system proficiency
- Attention to detail
- Collaborative relationship building
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits plan (medical, dental, vision)
- Matching 401(k)
- Summer Fridays
- Generous PTO
- Merchandise discounts
- Excellent career development opportunities
- Work environment reflecting industry leadership
Pay
Salary Range: $66,300K – $77,000K
Schedule
Not specified
Company Information
Centric Brands is a leading lifestyle brand collective that designs, sources, markets and sells high quality products in multiple segments, including women’s, men’s and kid’s apparel, accessories, entertainment and beauty. Centric Brands is focused on our customers and our brands that will drive the company’s future growth. We are defined by innovation as we seize new opportunities and thrive in an environment informed by creativity and thinking that is both analytical and outside the box. Centric Brands reflects a team built on respect, for others and for the hard work it takes to achieve our goals and build our bright future together.