Designer / Product Development Fashion Access

This position partners closely with the Design Director and cross-functional teams to create innovative, commercially viable products while ensuring all development milestones and deadlines are met. This role manages the product development process by communicating daily with overseas factories, preparing detailed tech packs, sending sourcing and development communications, tracking sample progress, maintaining accurate PLM records, and ensuring development calendars remain on schedule. The Designer / Product Development professional reviews pre-production samples for quality and accuracy, communicates approvals and revisions to factories, prepares samples and standards for milestone meetings, submits seasonal licensing approvals, and collaborates closely with Design, Production, Sales, and Licensing teams to ensure successful execution from concept through production. Candidates should possess strong creative and technical skills, an excellent eye for color, pattern, trend, and detail, and be proficient in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop; experience with a PLM system is a plus. Success in this role requires exceptional organization, time management, problem-solving abilities, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accurate documentation, meeting deadlines, communicating proactively, and ensuring all development materials, factory communications, and product information are complete and accurate.