Product Design and Development - Graphic Designer 3

Mindlance•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Graphic Designer 3 creates original graphic designs for apparel, footwear, and accessories that reflect the organization’s design ethos. With general direction from design management, the role contributes to ideation, concept development, and branding, while leading team projects and completing individual assignments. Work may include print, packaging, 3-D retail displays, event signage, logo systems, imagery, video, and collateral materials, using computerized systems throughout the design process. The designer creates seasonal graphic schematics across apparel, footwear, and accessories, manages overlapping seasons, explores graphic directions across collections, and provides timely design options to partners. The role prepares and uploads files for cross-functional partners and shareholders, keeps schematics and production records current for hand-off, and organizes files across Box and other systems. It is a fast-paced role that requires flexibility and close collaboration with graphic designers and design working teams, with a technical focus on schematics for factory production. The position also coordinates projects from concept through production and distribution, including internal briefings, timelines, work-back schedules, budgets, suppliers, specifications, production alternatives, and quality standards. It manages project costs and estimates, negotiates costs, reviews billing, reconciles budgets, evaluates vendors, arranges purchases from domestic and international vendors, and liaises with organizational managers and outside agencies to communicate project details and design requirements. The role is based on site at the Skims headquarters in Los Angeles Monday through Thursday, with Friday work from home. The contract is expected to last eight weeks from the start date.

Requirements

At least 5 years of graphic design experience.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Experience in apparel, footwear, and accessories industries, working directly with product creation.
Typography and illustration skills.
Knowledge of the female consumer space and understanding of Nike and lifestyle design.
Ability to work across a range of styles.
Portfolio demonstrating the design process, inspiration through final design, graphic development and iterations, patterns including all-over repeats, and a wide range of apparel examples such as screen prints, photographs, and apparel work.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting focused, detail-oriented work in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to create multiple options for a design concept and execute design ideas from team and creative director briefs.
Experience creating graphics and incorporating feedback from a leader.
Previous client or industry experience.

Responsibilities

Create original graphic designs for apparel, footwear, and accessories that reflect the organization’s design ethos.
Assist with ideation, concept development, and branding; lead team projects and complete individual projects.
Develop seasonal graphic schematics across apparel, footwear, and accessories while managing overlapping seasons.
Explore graphic directions across collections and deliver timely ideation and design options to design partners.
Upload files for cross-functional partners and shareholders, keep schematics and production records current for hand-off, and organize files in Box and other systems.
Work with design teams to prepare technical schematics for factory production.
Coordinate projects from concept development through final production and distribution, including briefings, timelines, work-back schedules, budgets, suppliers, specifications, and quality standards.
Manage project estimates and budgets, propose production alternatives, negotiate costs, review billing, and reconcile budgets.
Arrange purchases from domestic and international vendors and develop criteria for evaluating vendors.
Liaise with organizational managers and outside agencies to communicate project details, design requirements, schedules, and graphic materials.
Use computerized systems in the design process and remain flexible in a fast-paced environment.