Urban Outfitters Assistant Designer

Urban Outfitters • Philadelphia, PA

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About The Position

Urban Outfitters is seeking a highly creative Women’s Apparel Designer to support the design team in all functions of creative design and product execution. This role involves assisting in preparing presentation materials, sketching design ideas, and managing department samples. The ideal candidate will have excellent sketching abilities, technical skills in garment making, and a strong awareness of current trends and the UO customer. The role also requires business acumen, including analyzing sales data and maintaining design documentation, as well as strong leadership and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional partners and vendors. Adaptability, a proactive attitude, and proficiency in design software are essential for success in this fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Excellent ability to sketch design ideas accurately and emotionally while maintaining a good sense of proportion and can accurately illustrate details to communicate design vision to manager
• Possesses mocking, draping, sewing, and other technical skills related to garment making
• Maintains awareness of trend, shares research and inspiration with team (social media, retail experience, street-style, competitive shopping and vintage exploration as it relates to the UO product)
• Demonstrates a close connection to UO customer
• Analyzing Velo metrics every Monday to understand business and sell through of product
• Maintaining and updating CADs for seasonal assortment in Adobe XD
• General understanding and awareness of overall fit, fabric and construction intentions
• Ability to investigates design solutions for projects with an awareness of cost, process, and impact on partners
• Independently executes assignments once given direction and effectively manages 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
• 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
• Ability to format a professional and comprehensive email
• Flexible, adaptable and responsive to fast-paced work environment while maintaining style and design vision integrity
• Asks questions and strives for clarity, quickly learns from mistakes and actively seeks solutions
• Displays the ability to “find work” and offers to help teammates during down time
• Effectively manages up in a timely manner
• Adobe suite proficient
• Microsoft Office suite proficient
• AI prompting and generating for creative and presentation purpose (MJ, PromeAi, and ChatGPT)
• Treadstone and BOM maintenance
• Maintain organized and up to date line sheet and assortment tools at all time
• Highly organized with capacity to anticipate change

Responsibilities

• Assist in preparing presentation materials for seasonal benchmark meetings such as Sketch Review, Finalization, and Print + Color day
• Sketch design ideas accurately and emotionally while maintaining a good sense of proportion and can accurately illustrate details to communicate design vision to manager
• Possess mocking, draping, sewing, and other technical skills related to garment making
• Track, manage and organize department samples
• Maintain awareness of trend, share research and inspiration with team (social media, retail experience, street-style, competitive shopping and vintage exploration as it relates to the UO product)
• Analyze Velo metrics every Monday to understand business and sell through of product
• Maintain and update CADs for seasonal assortment in Adobe XD
• Investigate design solutions for projects with an awareness of cost, process, and impact on partners
• Independently execute assignments once given direction and effectively manage up in a timely manner
• Develop well thought out comments and opinions using both POV and data to contribute during meetings
• Remain humble while receiving feedback openly and positively with a willingness to collaborate on ideas or processes that may require necessary changes
• Communicate and collaborate effectively both internally and with cross-functional partners and vendors to ensure product execution reflects design intent
• Take responsibility for organizing their work, setting their own timelines and recognizing conditions and results that may impact the assignment
• Maintain courteous, professional email/phone and interpersonal relationships with cross-functional partners and vendors
• Format a professional and comprehensive email
• Manage up in a timely manner
• Maintain organized and up to date line sheet and assortment tools at all time

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• PTO
• generous employee discounts
• retirement savings

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed