Senior Fashion Designer

SHEIN • Los Angeles, CA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

We’re seeking a full-time Senior Fashion Designer for our Los Angeles-based corporate office. NYA SZN is a next-generation women’s fashion brand under SHEIN built to deliver elevated, fashion-forward product with a distinct point of view. Rooted in confidence, culture, and modern femininity, NYA SZN is designed for the customer who wants trend relevance, premium-looking product, and statement style at accessible prices. As the brand enters an accelerated growth phase, we are seeking a Senior Fashion Designer to play a critical role in shaping the next chapter of NYA SZN. This individual will bring strong creative instincts, commercial awareness, and executional excellence to help elevate the assortment across ready-to-wear categories, while adding valuable expertise in denim-driven product development and category expansion. We are looking for a designer who can build original product, identify growth opportunities, and translate trends into compelling assortments that drive results. This is a high-impact role for someone excited to build, influence, and help scale a growing brand.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design or related field preferred, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of fashion design experience in fast-paced women’s apparel environments
• Strong denim design background strongly preferred
• Experience in contemporary, trend-driven, premium, or aspirational brands preferred
• Proven ability to design high-volume assortments without sacrificing taste level
• Strong understanding of garment construction, fit, fabrication, wash development, and costing realities
• Strong Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills required
• Excellent communication skills with experience partnering with overseas teams
• Highly organized, solutions-oriented, and comfortable in a fast-growth environment
• Entrepreneurial mindset with excitement to help build a growing brand

Nice To Haves

• Strong in denim and fashion categories
• Fashion-forward with high taste level
• Commercially minded and customer aware
• Fast, decisive, and resourceful
• Excited by ownership and growth opportunity
• Comfortable building in an evolving environment

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly design capsules with 60+ original, elevated styles across key categories including dresses, sets, outerwear, separates, tops, bottoms, and seasonal statement product
• Bring strong denim design expertise across bottoms, jackets, skirts, dresses, and trend-right silhouettes
• Interpret trend direction, market insights, runway influence, and cultural moments into compelling design concepts
• Identify hero item opportunities and white space categories that support sales growth
• Deliver fashion-forward product with a strong balance of creativity and commerciality
• Build monthly concept boards that establish direction through color, silhouette, styling, fabrication, and key trends
• Help evolve and refine signature NYA SZN brand codes season over season
• Ensure product feels cohesive, elevated, and differentiated in the market
• Apply expertise in denim fits, washes, hardware, trims, and commercial trend direction
• Develop trend-right denim silhouettes
• Partner with overseas teams on construction, fit comments, and wash execution
• Identify opportunities to strengthen denim and adjacent categories within the assortment
• Create detailed tech packs with clear construction and fit intent
• Manage styles through development from concept to sample approval
• Review fit samples and provide precise, actionable comments to overseas teams
• Partner closely with product development and supply chain teams to ensure speed and accuracy
• Collaborate with Styling, Creative, Merchandising, and Brand teams to ensure cohesive monthly drops
• Participate in assortment reviews, product edits, and launch readiness meetings
• Support photoshoot styling direction as needed to ensure strongest product storytelling

Benefits

• Bonus eligible
• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)
• Health Savings Account with Employer Funding
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent care)
• Company-Paid Basic Life/AD&D insurance
• Company-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Voluntary Benefit Offerings (Voluntary Life/AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, and Accident)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Business Travel Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan with discretionary company match and access to a financial advisor
• Vacation, paid holidays, floating holiday and sick days
• Employee discounts
• Free weekly catered lunch
• Dog-friendly office (available at select locations)
• Free gym access (available at select locations)
• Free swag giveaways
• Annual Holiday Party
• Invitations to pop-ups and other company events
• Complimentary daily office snacks and beverages

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior