Associate Designer, Fashion (Young Adult Men's)
About The Position
We are seeking an Associate Designer for Young Adult Men’s who is passionate about trend-driven fashion, youth culture, and creating product that feels relevant, modern, and commercially impactful. This role is ideal for a highly creative and organized designer with strong young adult aesthetic instincts, a collaborative mindset, and excitement around fast-paced design work, chase opportunities, and cross-functional partnerships. Our Young Adult Men’s team is focused on building trend-right, culturally relevant product that connects with the next generation customer. We create fashion with a strong point of view across apparel, graphics, color, and lifestyle-driven assortments while balancing speed, innovation, and commercial success. The team thrives on collaboration, creativity, and bringing fresh ideas to life through impactful design and storytelling.
Requirements
- Passion for young adult/menswear design with a strong understanding of trend, color, graphics, and youth-driven fashion aesthetics
- Minimum 3 years of experience in fashion design, preferably within young adult, streetwear, fast fashion, or trend-focused retail
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and strong comfortability utilizing AI tools within the creative process
- Strong sense of color, print, graphics, and pattern development
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive under fast timelines
- Collaborative spirit with eagerness to learn, contribute, and step into hands-on design opportunities
- Strong communication skills and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset
- Excitement around collaboration, trend reaction, and fast-paced product creation
- Experience designing for a strong Young Adult apparel brand
- Bachelor’s degree in fashion design, textile design, or related area and 1 year’s experience in apparel design, garment construction, or related area OR 3 years’ experience in apparel design, garment construction, or related area.
Nice To Haves
- Strong graphic, print and pattern design eye
- Experience working in fast-paced retail or vertical design environments
- Knowledge of current youth culture, fashion trends, and emerging market brands
- Experience utilizing AI tools within the design and creative process
- Strong collaboration skills across cross-functional teams and external partners
- Ability to translate trends into commercial designs.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams.
- Understanding of fabric sourcing and garment production processes.
Responsibilities
- Support the design and development of Young Adult Men’s apparel across multiple categories and seasonal concepts
- Research trends, youth culture, graphics, color, silhouette, fabric, and market inspiration to help shape seasonal direction
- Partner cross-functionally with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, and tech design to execute product from concept through production
- Assist in chase projects, fast-turn opportunities, special collaborations, and trend-driven product initiatives
- Help organize and maintain seasonal design boards, presentations, approvals, and Daily emails
- Contribute fresh ideas and creative energy while maintaining strong attention to detail and organization in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
- Incentive awards for performance
- 401(k) match
- Stock purchase plan
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Multiple health plans
- Competitive pay
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live better U) for full-time and part-time associates.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
