Free People Senior Designer - Jackets & Outerwear

Role Responsibilities

• Identify emerging fashion trends, and translate them into concept direction that feels relevant, aspirational, and brand-right for the Free People customer.
• Create monthly concept direction for Jackets & Outerwear, including silhouette, fabric, wash, trim, artwork, and embellishment ideas.
• Create and communicate design ideas through sketching, digital tools, draped or sewn mock-ups, AI-assisted exploration when appropriate, and other visual communication methods.
• Edit the assortment to create a thoughtful balance of ideas against the business lineplan, ensuring the category has range, newness, emotional product, and commercial clarity.
• Create compelling, presentation-ready digital decks on a monthly basis for design leadership, with an eye toward elevation, clarity, and efficiency.
• Lead technical design setups with strong attention to detail, ensuring accuracy across technical sketches, BOMs, design packages, construction notes, pattern translation, and handoff to Technical Design.
• Attend fittings and contribute to fit, construction, proportion, and detail problem-solving throughout the development process.
• Partner closely with Merchandising, Product Development, Technical Design, Production, and Sourcing to ensure designs are creative, executable, and aligned with business objectives.
• Mentor and guide junior team members through research, sketching, design development, package execution, technical accuracy, and day-to-day priorities.
• Communicate ideas clearly and collaboratively in key meetings, inspiring confidence across Design, Merchandising, Production, and leadership partners.
• Bring flexibility, curiosity, positivity, and a generous creative spirit to the team and the work.

Role Qualifications

• A highly creative designer with a clear fashion point of view, strong taste level, and deep understanding of the Free People customer.
• A balance of creativity and technical discipline, with the ability to move fluidly between concept, presentation, development, fittings, and execution.
• Experience, taste, and a strong perspective on print, artwork, embroidery, beading, embellishment, and other surface details as they relate to apparel design.