Print Design Lead, Polo Women's
Ralph Lauren · New York, NY · 1 mo ago
Art & Creative$90k–$193k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes description of company, role responsibilities, qualifications, etc. We need to use for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real content. We have Salary range: $90,000 - $192,500 annually => Pay section. No explicit Benefits or Schedule mentioned. So we can include Pay. Also maybe "About the role" could be the introductory paragraph about Ralph Lauren and the role description. Could treat that as About the role. Responsibilities: list of duties (Creative & Design Development, Cross-Functional Partnership, Product Development & Execution, Team Collaboration & Influence). Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: The posting lists qualifications: Extensive experience..., Advanced proficiency..., Strong expertise..., Demonstrated ability..., Strong understanding..., Experience working..., Excellent presentation..., Strong organizational..., Proven ability..., Strong creative eye..., Ability to balance..., Experience mentoring... These could be combined into Requirements or Skills. We need to decide sections: maybe "Requirements" for experience/education, "Skills" for technical skills. But we can combine if we want fewer sections. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications (including skills). Pay section.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate.
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details.
We need to use
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real content. We have Salary range: $90,000 - $192,500 annually => Pay section. No explicit Benefits or Schedule mentioned. So we can include Pay. Also maybe "About the role" could be the introductory paragraph about Ralph Lauren and the role description. Could treat that as About the role. Responsibilities: list of duties (Creative & Design Development, Cross-Functional Partnership, Product Development & Execution, Team Collaboration & Influence). Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: The posting lists qualifications: Extensive experience..., Advanced proficiency..., Strong expertise..., Demonstrated ability..., Strong understanding..., Experience working..., Excellent presentation..., Strong organizational..., Proven ability..., Strong creative eye..., Ability to balance..., Experience mentoring... These could be combined into Requirements or Skills. We need to decide sections: maybe "Requirements" for experience/education, "Skills" for technical skills. But we can combine if we want fewer sections. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications (including skills). Pay section.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate.
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for responsibilities we can list each bullet. For qualifications we can list each bullet.
We need to use
for prose.
Let's extract content:
Company description: "Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration."
Then role description: ", The Print Design Lead is responsible for leading the research, development, and execution of seasonal print concepts across the Women's Polo business. This role serves as a key creative partner, driving print direction from concept through production while ensuring alignment with brand aesthetic, product strategy, and business objectives. The Print Design Lead combines strong creative vision with technical print expertise and collaborates closely with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, Production, and external vendors to deliver innovative and commercially relevant print solutions. This individual plays a critical role in shaping seasonal print narratives, influencing creative direction, and supporting the development of best-in-class print design processes."
Then responsibilities broken into sections with bullet-like sentences separated by periods. We'll need to convert each bullet into
- . Let's parse:
Creative & Design Development
- Lead seasonal print research, concept development, and execution across multiple product categories.
- Translate seasonal creative direction into compelling print stories, color palettes, patterns, and artwork that support brand and business objectives.
- Develop original print designs, engineered artwork, placements, repeats, and graphic concepts from initial inspiration through final execution.
- Drive trend, market, vintage, and competitive research to identify emerging opportunities and inform seasonal direction.
- Present print concepts, design strategies, and creative recommendations to design leadership and key cross-functional partners.
- Create high-quality digital presentations, mockups, and visual communication tools to support design reviews and leadership presentations.
- Ensure all print developments maintain the integrity of the Ralph Lauren brand aesthetic while evolving and innovating the category.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner closely with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, and Production teams throughout the product lifecycle.
- Collaborate with mills, vendors, and development partners to achieve design intent while balancing quality, cost, and timing requirements.
- Review strike-offs, lab dips, artwork submissions, and development samples, providing clear direction and feedback to maintain design standards.
- Communicate print development priorities, timelines, and project status to key stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiencies, workflows, and development processes across the print function.
Product Development & Execution
- Own print development from concept through production, ensuring technical accuracy and readiness for commercialization.
- Maintain and oversee seasonal artwork libraries, print archives, development trackers, and digital asset organization.
- Support seasonal product reviews and milestone meetings through the preparation of presentation materials and design documentation.
- Partner with development teams to resolve design and production challenges while maintaining creative intent.
- Ensure consistency and quality across all print executions through strong attention to detail and follow-through.
Team Collaboration & Influence
- Provide day-to-day guidance, mentorship, and technical expertise to junior designers and support team members.
- Foster a collaborative, creative environment that encourages innovation and knowledge sharing.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for print design, development processes, and industry best practices.
- Contribute to the continued evolution of team capabilities, tools, and creative processes.
Then Salary range: $90,000 - $192,500 annually.
Then qualifications/skills list:
- Extensive experience in print, textile, graphic, or apparel design, preferably within premium or luxury fashion brands.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Strong expertise in print development, repeat engineering, color management, and artwork preparation for production.
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead seasonal projects from concept through execution.
- Strong understanding of fabric, print, and product development processes.
- Experience working with global vendors, mills, and development partners.
- Excellent presentation, communication, and storytelling skills.
- Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional partners and drive alignment across teams.
- Strong creative eye with expertise in trend forecasting, color, print, and pattern development.
- Ability to balance creative innovation with business objectives and commercial considerations.
- Experience mentoring or providing guidance to junior team members preferred.
We need to decide sections: Could have "Responsibilities" (list of duties), "Qualifications" (list of experience/skills). Could also have "Skills" separate but we can combine.
We must not create sections with filler. So we will have:
About the role
... company description + role overview ...
Responsibilities
... list all responsibility bullets ...
Qualifications
... list all qualification bullets ...
Pay
Salary range: $90,000 - $192,500 annually
We should not include Benefits or Schedule.
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information: include company description, role overview, responsibilities, qualifications, pay.
We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Print Design Lead". We already have About the role section not using title.
We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers.
We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Make sure to properly escape any special characters? Not needed.
Let's craft the About the role paragraph: combine company description and role overview.
Company description: "Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration."
Role overview: "The Print Design Lead is responsible for leading the research, development, and execution of seasonal print concepts across the Women's Polo business. This role serves as a key creative partner, driving print direction from concept through production while ensuring alignment with brand aesthetic, product strategy, and business objectives. The Print Design Lead combines strong creative vision with technical print expertise and collaborates closely with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, Production, and external vendors to deliver innovative and commercially relevant print solutions. This individual plays a critical role in shaping seasonal print narratives, influencing creative direction, and supporting the development of best-in-class print design processes."
Combine into one paragraph maybe two sentences but okay.
Now responsibilities list: we need to include each bullet as - . We'll group them under one
maybe with subheadings? Not required but could keep as plain list. However we might want to keep the subheadings as plain text inside - ? Could include them as
- Creative & Design Development: then nested list? But spec says use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid additional markup inside li. Could keep simple: each bullet as
- with the text. We'll include the subheading as part of the first bullet? Might lose structure. Better to keep subheadings as plain text inside
- but not as heading. Eg:
- Creative & Design Development: Lead seasonal print research, concept development, and execution across multiple product categories.
Then subsequent bullets under that category without subheading? Could be ambiguous. But we can keep each bullet as separate line with the full phrase including the subheading only for first bullet of each group. That may be acceptable.
Alternatively we could create separate for each subcategory with a preceding heading? But spec says use
for section headings only. Could add inside? Not allowed? Not specified. Safer to just flatten list.
We'll produce list items:
- Lead seasonal print research, concept development, and execution across multiple product categories.
- Translate seasonal creative direction into compelling print stories, color palettes, patterns, and artwork that support brand and business objectives.
- Develop original print designs, engineered artwork, placements, repeats, and graphic concepts from initial inspiration through final execution.
- Drive trend, market, vintage, and competitive research to identify emerging opportunities and inform seasonal direction.
- Present print concepts, design strategies, and creative recommendations to design leadership and key cross-functional partners.
- Create high-quality digital presentations, mockups, and visual communication tools to support design reviews and leadership presentations.
- Ensure all print developments maintain the integrity of the Ralph Lauren brand aesthetic while evolving and innovating the category.
- Partner closely with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, and Production teams throughout the product lifecycle.
- Collaborate with mills, vendors, and development partners to achieve design intent while balancing quality, cost, and timing requirements.
- Review strike-offs, lab dips, artwork submissions, and development samples, providing clear direction and feedback to maintain design standards.
- Communicate print development priorities, timelines, and project status to key stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiencies, workflows, and development processes across the print function.
- Own print development from concept through production, ensuring technical accuracy and readiness for commercialization.
- Maintain and oversee seasonal artwork libraries, print archives, development trackers,
for prose. Let's extract content: Company description: "Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration." Then role description: ", The Print Design Lead is responsible for leading the research, development, and execution of seasonal print concepts across the Women's Polo business. This role serves as a key creative partner, driving print direction from concept through production while ensuring alignment with brand aesthetic, product strategy, and business objectives. The Print Design Lead combines strong creative vision with technical print expertise and collaborates closely with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, Production, and external vendors to deliver innovative and commercially relevant print solutions. This individual plays a critical role in shaping seasonal print narratives, influencing creative direction, and supporting the development of best-in-class print design processes." Then responsibilities broken into sections with bullet-like sentences separated by periods. We'll need to convert each bullet into
About the role
... company description + role overview ...
Responsibilities
- ... list all responsibility bullets ...
Qualifications
- ... list all qualification bullets ...
Pay
Salary range: $90,000 - $192,500 annually
We should not include Benefits or Schedule. We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information: include company description, role overview, responsibilities, qualifications, pay. We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Print Design Lead". We already have About the role section not using title. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present. Now produce HTML fragment. Make sure to properly escape any special characters? Not needed. Let's craft the About the role paragraph: combine company description and role overview. Company description: "Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration." Role overview: "The Print Design Lead is responsible for leading the research, development, and execution of seasonal print concepts across the Women's Polo business. This role serves as a key creative partner, driving print direction from concept through production while ensuring alignment with brand aesthetic, product strategy, and business objectives. The Print Design Lead combines strong creative vision with technical print expertise and collaborates closely with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, Production, and external vendors to deliver innovative and commercially relevant print solutions. This individual plays a critical role in shaping seasonal print narratives, influencing creative direction, and supporting the development of best-in-class print design processes." Combine into one paragraph maybe two sentences but okay. Now responsibilities list: we need to include each bullet as- maybe with subheadings? Not required but could keep as plain list. However we might want to keep the subheadings as plain text inside
- ? Could include them as
- Creative & Design Development: then nested list? But spec says use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid additional markup inside li. Could keep simple: each bullet as
- with the text. We'll include the subheading as part of the first bullet? Might lose structure. Better to keep subheadings as plain text inside
- but not as heading. Eg:
- Creative & Design Development: Lead seasonal print research, concept development, and execution across multiple product categories. Then subsequent bullets under that category without subheading? Could be ambiguous. But we can keep each bullet as separate line with the full phrase including the subheading only for first bullet of each group. That may be acceptable. Alternatively we could create separate
- for each subcategory with a preceding
heading? But spec says use
for section headings only. Could add
inside? Not allowed? Not specified. Safer to just flatten list. We'll produce list items: - Lead seasonal print research, concept development, and execution across multiple product categories. - Translate seasonal creative direction into compelling print stories, color palettes, patterns, and artwork that support brand and business objectives. - Develop original print designs, engineered artwork, placements, repeats, and graphic concepts from initial inspiration through final execution. - Drive trend, market, vintage, and competitive research to identify emerging opportunities and inform seasonal direction. - Present print concepts, design strategies, and creative recommendations to design leadership and key cross-functional partners. - Create high-quality digital presentations, mockups, and visual communication tools to support design reviews and leadership presentations. - Ensure all print developments maintain the integrity of the Ralph Lauren brand aesthetic while evolving and innovating the category. - Partner closely with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, and Production teams throughout the product lifecycle. - Collaborate with mills, vendors, and development partners to achieve design intent while balancing quality, cost, and timing requirements. - Review strike-offs, lab dips, artwork submissions, and development samples, providing clear direction and feedback to maintain design standards. - Communicate print development priorities, timelines, and project status to key stakeholders. - Identify opportunities to improve efficiencies, workflows, and development processes across the print function. - Own print development from concept through production, ensuring technical accuracy and readiness for commercialization. - Maintain and oversee seasonal artwork libraries, print archives, development trackers,