Designer

• Manage the team’s workload, calendar, and priorities across multiple brands
• Provide technical expertise to maintain fit consistency and product quality
• Identify where pattern blocks are needed and execute them
• Mentor and develop the technical design team
• Coach the team on fit evaluation, balance, and proportion
• Deliver timely, direct, and actionable feedback
• Manage workflow and evolving business needs, creating or adjusting action plans
• Create, update, and use pattern blocks to ensure standards are met
• Collaborate with Design and Product Development teams on fit and aesthetics
• Maintain fit and construction standards for brand consistency and quality
• Resolve and communicate fit and construction issues to International Buying Offices and factories
• Communicate daily with IBOs, vendors, and cross-functional partners
• Improve fit and quality through customer-comment reviews, competitive analysis, and fit symposiums
• Oversee, coach, and assess direct reports’ performance and development

Manager – Technical Design

• Collaborate with Design and Pre-Production teams, guided by the Sr. Technical Designer or Technical Design Lead, to determine fit and aesthetics
• Complete product packages in Flex PLM, including measurements, construction details, and technical sketches
• Establish and maintain fit and construction standards for brand consistency and quality
• Review fit history and recommend alternative construction methods or component options when necessary
• Prepare for and actively participate in fit sessions
• Resolve and communicate fit and construction issues to International Buying Offices and factories within development and production timelines
• Communicate daily and follow through with International Buying Offices, vendors, and cross-functional partners

Assistant Technical Designer

• Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of DREAM’s disseminated innovation curriculum and related curricular products
• Manage and develop the Innovation Program Design team
• Set the vision for DREAM’s innovation curriculum
• Oversee standards, branding, packaging, and turnkey readiness of curricular products for external partners
• Write AI and future-ready skills curriculum
• Establish metrics, monitor outcomes, assess impact, drive continuous improvement, and inform strategic decisions
• Teach and model classroom use of DREAM’s AI and future-ready skills curriculum
• Stay current on AI and future-ready skills in education, research, best practices, and political influences
• Work with technology developers throughout product design and development
• Collaborate with the Implementation Team on Convening playbooks and learning experiences for AI partners
• Coordinate with external academic researchers to evaluate implementation effectiveness and improve curriculum and programs
• Perform other related responsibilities as assigned

Head of Program Design

• Develop innovative and visually engaging packaging for footwear and related products aligned with each brand's identity and target customer
• Design boxes, bags, tissue, inserts, hangtags, labels, stickers, cards, wraps, and other branded packaging elements
• Translate creative concepts and brand guidelines into cohesive packaging designs across collections
• Create package dielines, digital and print mockups, and 3D renderings as needed
• Communicate product information, features, benefits, brand messaging, and care instructions through packaging
• Develop and maintain accurate packaging technical specifications, including dimensions, materials, finishes, substrates, printing methods, and production details
• Prepare factory-ready and printer-ready final files and ensure artwork meets production specifications
• Collaborate with Design, Product Development, Merchandising, Marketing, and overseas factories/vendors throughout packaging development
• Review samples, proofs, and production materials for accuracy, color, print quality, finishes, and overall execution
• Manage multiple packaging projects and product launches while meeting deadlines and production calendars
• Create supporting graphic assets for product launches, marketing materials, e-commerce, presentations, and other brand initiatives
• Maintain consistency and accuracy across packaging and branded product touchpoints
• Stay current on packaging trends, materials, printing techniques, finishes, and sustainable packaging solutions
• Identify opportunities to improve packaging design, functionality, cost, and production processes

Freelance Packaging Designer, Footwear

• Collaborate with Design and Product Development teams to determine fit and aesthetics
• Complete product packages in FlexPLM, including measurements, construction details, and technical sketches
• Establish and maintain fit and construction standards for brand consistency and quality
• Prepare and lead fit sessions with Design and Product Development
• Discuss fit history when presenting current fit and recommend alternative construction methods or component options
• Resolve and communicate fit and construction issues to International Buying Offices and factories within development and production timelines
• Communicate and follow through daily with International Buying Offices, vendors, and cross-functional partners
• Enhance fit and quality through customer comment reviews, competitive analysis, and fit symposiums

Technical Designer

• Collaborate with Design and Product Development teams to determine fit and aesthetics
• Complete product packages in FlexPLM, including measurements, construction details, and technical sketches
• Establish and maintain fit and construction standards for brand consistency and quality
• Prepare and lead fit sessions with Design and Product Development
• Discuss fit history and present current fit recommendations
• Recommend alternative construction methods or component options when necessary
• Resolve and communicate fit and construction issues to International Buying Offices and factories within development and production timelines
• Communicate and follow through daily with IBO, vendors, and cross-functional partners
• Enhance fit and quality through customer comment reviews, competitive analysis, and fit symposiums

• Collaborate with Design and Pre-Production teams, with guidance from the Senior Technical Designer or manager, to determine fit and aesthetics
• Complete product packages in PLM software, including measurements, construction details, and technical sketches
• Establish and maintain fit and construction standards for brand consistency and quality
• Review fit history with the Senior Technical Designer or manager and recommend alternative construction methods or component options
• Prepare for and actively participate in fit sessions
• Resolve and communicate fit and construction issues to International Buying Offices and factories within development and production timelines
• Communicate daily and follow through with International Buying Offices, vendors, and cross-functional partners

Associate Technical Designer

• Manage the technical design process and provide technical expertise to evaluate apparel merchandise for style, measurement, construction, fit, quality, and design interpretation
• Manage garment evaluation and provide technical design assistance with master pattern and size grading as needed
• Collaborate with Design and Product Development teams to determine fit and aesthetics
• Complete product packages in FlexPLM, including measurements, construction details, and technical sketches
• Establish and maintain fit and construction standards for brand consistency and quality
• Prepare and lead fit sessions; discuss fit history and recommend alternative construction methods or component options
• Resolve and communicate fit and construction issues to International Buying Offices and factories within development and production timelines
• Communicate and follow through daily with IBO, vendors, and cross-functional partners
• Enhance fit and quality through customer comment reviews, competitive analysis, and fit symposiums

Senior Technical Designer

• Match colors across a variety of color libraries and samples
• Make and construct color chips, cards and presentation boards
• File and organize colors and fabrics
• Prep meeting samples
• Work on production detail sheets
• Assist the designers on flat sketching and trend research

Design Intern

• Create high-quality presentations for real-world use cases for the Tendem project
• Design high-stakes pitch decks and professional one-pagers tailored for specific audiences
• Translate complex data into clear visual storytelling with minimalism and precise information hierarchy
• Enhance presentations with custom fonts, elegant animations, and consistent visual design
• Apply a polished, persuasive, premium corporate-meets-creative style across deliverables
• Validate visual alignment, pacing, formatting quality, and brand adherence before final delivery
• Transform raw data and narratives into compelling, presentation-ready slides and one-pagers

Designer jobs in New York

Manager – Technical Design

Assistant Technical Designer

Head of Program Design

Freelance Packaging Designer, Footwear

Technical Designer

Technical Designer

Associate Technical Designer

Senior Technical Designer

Design Intern

Freelance Presentation Designer