Senior Designer, Boys Apparel (Under Armour)

About the role

Centric Brands is a leading lifestyle brand collective that designs, sources, markets, and sells high-quality products in various segments, including women’s, men’s, and kids’ apparel, accessories, entertainment, and beauty. Centric Brands is focused on its customers and its brands to drive future growth. The company is defined by innovation, seizing new opportunities, and thriving 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 the hard work required to achieve its goals and build its bright future together.

Responsibilities

• Create performance-driven, commercially viable designs for Boys apparel, sizes 4–20 (up through YXXL).
• Support the overall creative direction of the brand by translating trends, sport culture, and brand vision into modern, compelling assortments that resonate with today's youth athletes and their parents, while meeting the performance, durability, and comfort standards of Under Armour.
• Execute seasonal concepts from ideation through final development, ensuring designs meet standards of quality, fit, and performance.
• Partner with the Design Director and cross-functional teams to build balanced, trend-right assortments.
• Contribute to the development of silhouettes, prints, and fabrications appropriate for youth performance and lifestyle categories.
• Refine style assortments to ensure clarity, cohesion, and commercial viability.
• Elevate core and basic items through thoughtful design details, updated color/application, and graphic execution.
• Execute design development from sketch through production with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Create Illustrator sketches, CADs, and technical packages for development.
• Review lab dips, strike-offs, prints, and samples, ensuring alignment with design intent.
• Collaborate with technical design and production teams on fit, construction, and performance quality.
• Ensure all designs meet Under Armour's performance, durability, and safety standards for youth apparel.
• Work closely with merchandising, production, and technical design partners to execute seasonal goals.
• Contribute to a collaborative, creative team environment.
• Provide support and mentorship to junior designers when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Design or related field.
• 6-8+ years of apparel design experience, with experience in boys', activewear, or performance apparel preferred.
• Strong design sensibility with the ability to translate trends into age-appropriate, performance-driven product.
• Knowledge of youth apparel construction, performance materials, and fit across a broad size range.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, CAD systems, Microsoft Office, and Mac platforms.
• Strong sketching, color sense, and attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Ability to maintain awareness of sport, streetwear, and youth culture trends relevant to boys' apparel.
• Conduct market research and competitive shopping across athletic and lifestyle competitors to inform design direction.
• Support preparation of seasonal presentations, concept boards, and design reviews.

Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite proficiency.
• Proficiency in CAD systems.
• Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Mac platform proficiency.
• Strong sketching and color sense.
• Attention to detail.
• Organizational and communication skills.

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.
• Social impact program, Centric Cares, focusing on volunteerism to make a difference in communities.
• D&I committee shaping the future of diversity, equity, and inclusion through workshops, resources, and inspiring conversations.

Pay

Salary Range: $100,000K – $120,000K

Schedule

N/A