Director of Fast Track

Skims•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

The Director of Fast Track will establish and lead SKIMS’ accelerated, season-agnostic product function, converting near-term, data-validated demand into relevant and profitable products without compromising brand standards or disrupting the core business. The function operates on a separate, decoupled track to take validated consumer signals to sellable products in weeks and to read, react, and reorder in days. This is an end-to-end, hands-on player-coach role. The Director owns the signal, decisions, product point of view, business case, margin, delivery, and results, working directly across product creation and commercial execution. The role partners with Design, Merchandising, Planning, Supply Chain, and Compliance, and builds a team and vendor processes to support fast-track product development. Product and consumer learnings are fed back into broader assortment strategy and the core product calendar.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in a fashion/apparel business.
Meaningful experience in at least two of merchandising/buying, product development, and sourcing/production.
Direct experience running test-and-react or small-batch, read-and-reorder models.
Knowledge of leveraging data and trend insights to inform product creation.
Strong product and consumer instincts, with the ability to connect trend, market, and behavioral signals to compelling product opportunities.
Product assortment fluency, including understanding of assortment architecture, price/value, product lifecycle, and category performance.
Hands-on fluency with sourcing, costing, and vendor negotiation.
Comfort making decisions with partial data, documenting decisions, and being accountable for outcomes.
Strong cross-functional operating skills.

Responsibilities

Establish the fast-track function in partnership with Design, Merchandising, Planning, and Supply Chain leadership.
Translate consumer, trend, and selling signals into clear product opportunities, using product judgment to assess relevance, brand fit, and commercial value.
Apply a product-performance lens to test-and-react decisions, including initial depth, chase potential, product productivity, and whether to scale, evolve, or exit products.
Feed product and consumer learnings into broader assortment strategy, including future categories, franchises, and seasonal direction.
Hire and lead a multi-skilled, entrepreneurial team of end-to-end product developers and trend/data analysts.
Own the fast-track P&L, including revenue, OTB, gross margin, inventory productivity, and chase effectiveness.
Guide trend/data analysts in building and operating the fast-track signal stack, including social velocity, search trends, competitor drops, site search and PDP behavior, early sell-through, and customer feedback.
Define the test protocol, including product opportunity, initial buy depth, read window, reorder trigger, and chase capacity.
Feed learnings back into the core calendar, including what sold, which signals predicted demand, and which fabrics and silhouettes performed.
Evaluate existing vendor capabilities for fast-track product creation and the ability to leverage the existing vendor base.
Introduce new offshore, nearshore, or domestic vendors for fast-track product creation where appropriate.
Build a dedicated vendor onboarding process with Compliance so new vendors can become production-ready quickly.
Maintain a pre-approved Fast Track fabric and trim library and standard fit blocks so each style does not start from zero.