Assistant designer

Job Description Summary : Responsible for assisting with the design and creation of Bottoms & Outerwear in women's apparel that are leading in design, innovation, function and quality, while also being reflective of Sundance's design philosophy and standards. What you'll be doing : • Conduct inspirational research by reviewing runways, aspirational retailers, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. based on manager's direction while gathering images and preparing for review • Create colorways of print / pattern, develop embroidery artwork, and / or color up embroidery artwork and prepare artwork packages to pass to vendors • Create color dolls in preparation for sketch reviews, sketch a portion of the assortment as needed and directed by manager • Set up tech packs with adopted sketches, do detail sketches, select trims for review, and outline all details as directed • Attend fittings to capture all aesthetic fit notes for future reference in fittings, type up and send to TD, use as a forum for learning to fit garments designed by Assistant • Fill all sketches and tech packs in appropriate folders and according to structure for PD hand off, manage all fabric submits by filing and organizing regularly, organize and manage all development binders for reference, create line sheets for color doll reviews, capture all notes on product changes at line adopt meetings and file, prepares and sends email communication on submits or Design Assist vendors on pre development, communicates • Organize samples and prepares key information on each sample for presentations and post each meeting organizes racks, supports VP by creating enlarged color dolls of recolored items for Book Build • Support Design Director as needed in preparation for presentations by developing Point of View Meeting Docs and Concept Adoption Documents