Design Director – Seasonal Accessories
Role Summary
The Design Director, Seasonal Accessories manages the business for all design across Gloves, Headwear, and Cold Weather categories for Men’s and Women’s. This role owns the seasonal creative strategy and translates brand direction, customer needs, consumer insights, market trends, and competitive intelligence into commercially viable, brand-right assortments.
Key Responsibilities
Own seasonal creative strategy across assigned categories, translating brand direction, customer needs, market trends, and competitive insights into commercial assortments
Review and approve concepts, CADs, materials, color palettes, and product details to ensure brand alignment, quality, and differentiation
Lead design from concept through sample approval and pre-production readiness, ensuring creative intent, specifications, costing, timing, and quality expectations are met
Partner with Sourcing, Offshore Sourcing, and factory teams on feasibility, materials, construction, sample execution, cost, and quality
Ensure design-to-sourcing handoffs are clear, complete, and actionable
Align design direction with Merchandising, Sales, licensors, and customers on assortment architecture, pricing, margin goals, channel needs, and go-to-market priorities
Lead design storytelling for internal, licensor, and customer presentations, including trend direction, concept boards, line reviews, and product narratives
Use business performance, retail feedback, and customer insights to inform future design strategies and product recommendations
Build and develop a high-performing design team with clear standards, priorities, expectations, and accountability
Improve workflows, seasonal documentation, sample review processes, and cross-functional alignment to increase speed, clarity, and execution
Advance AI, PLM, CAD tools, digital libraries, and responsible design practices to support efficiency, innovation, sustainability, and product integrity
Qualifications
10+ years of accessories, apparel, or consumer product design experience, preferably in seasonal accessories, cold weather, headwear, gloves, or related categories
Ability to balance creative vision with cost, margin, quality, production feasibility, and customer needs
Experience partnering with Merchandising, Sales, Product Development, Sourcing, Packaging, licensors, customers, global offices, and factory teams
Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, PLM, CAD tools, digital design libraries, and emerging AI-enabled design tools
What We Offer
Competitive base salary
Hybrid work schedule
Three weeks of paid time off within the first year of employment
Company provided life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and paid parental leave
Health, vision, and dental insurance options with low employee contributions
Commuter benefit plan
Optional supplemental life insurance, pet insurance, and accident & critical illness insurance offered at a group discount rate
401(k)
Unlimited access to our award-winning online fitness and wellness program
A great place to work, fast-paced, with terrific career growth