Urban Outtfitters Associate Designer - Mens

Role Responsibilities

• Assists in interpreting seasonal fashion direction, assortment opportunities, and merchandise trends for category.
• Ability to interpret trend for the UO customer and shares research and inspiration with direct reports and leads (social media, retail experience, street-style, competitive shopping and vintage exploration as it relates to the UO product).
• Works with design leads to execute creative vision in sample and presentation form.
• Analyzes Velo metrics every Monday to understand business and sell through of product.
• Closely with Design lead and Buying partners to gain an understanding of financial reports and earnings as they relate to design production.
• Maintains and updates CADs for seasonal assortment in Adobe XD.
• General understanding and awareness of overall fit, fabric and construction intentions.
• Investigates design solutions for projects with an awareness of cost, process, and impact on partners.

Leadership

• Supports Design lead throughout the design process by anticipating needs and assuming accountability for their contributions in the product cycle.
• Maintains daily communication with cross-functional partners to ease any development issues that may arise.
• Can independently anticipate and executes assignments and effectively manage up in a timely manner.
• Develops well thought out comments and opinions using both POV and data to contribute during meetings.
• Remains humble while receiving feedback openly and positively with a willingness to collaborate on ideas or processes that may require necessary changes.

Teamwork/Collaboration/Cultural Fit

• Builds and sustains positive collaborative relationships with multi-level cross-functional partners.
• Communicates and collaborates effectively both internally and with cross-functional partners and vendors to ensure product execution reflects design intent.
• Takes responsibility for organizing their work, setting their own timelines and recognizing conditions and results that may impact the assignment.
• Maintains courteous, professional email/phone and interpersonal relationships with cross-functional partners and vendors.

Drive

• Demonstrates and maintains a strong knowledge of trends, customer and brand objectives as well as the UO design vision.
• Identifies efficiencies within our processes and initiates opportunities to leverage assets, avoid redundancies, and proactively align resources.
• Flexible, adaptable and responsive to fast-paced work environment while maintaining style and design vision integrity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Design Experience preferred.
• Bachelor Degree in Fashion Design or related area of study strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of relevant fashion trends, customer behavior, and brand vision.
• Ability to balance creativity with business acumen, margin parameters, and process efficiencies.
• Strong hand and digital sketching ability.
• Independent conduct set-ups and fittings.
• Adobe suite proficient.
• Microsoft Office suite proficient.
• AI prompting and generating for creative and presentation purpose (MJ, PromeAi, and ChatGPT).
• Treadstone and BOM maintenance.
• Organized and up to date line sheet and assortment tools at all time.
• Highly organized with capacity to anticipate change.

Perks

• Comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees.
• Medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more!

EEO Statement

URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment.