Urban Outfitters Assistant Designer - OFU

Role Summary
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Urban Outfitters is seeking an Assistant Designer to join the Out From Under (OFU) team!

Out From Under specializes in lounge, athleisure, and intimates, creating distinctive collections that balance comfort, innovation, and a strong point of view while reflecting the evolving lifestyle of the Urban Outfitters customer.

The Assistant Designer supports the Design team in bringing the seasonal creative vision to life through trend and market research, sketching, CAD development, sample execution, assortment maintenance, and presentation preparation. This role requires a strong understanding of the Urban Outfitters customer, a keen awareness of emerging trends, excellent creative and technical design skills, commercial awareness, and the ability to stay highly organized in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The ideal candidate is passionate about lounge, athleisure, and intimates, with a strong eye for silhouette, fabric, color, detail, and styling. They are collaborative, proactive, and adaptable, with the ability to independently manage assignments and priorities while communicating effectively with Design leads, cross-functional partners, and vendors. This individual will help ensure that product is executed thoughtfully and consistently reflects the OFU creative vision and original design intent.

Role Responsibilities
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* Assist in preparing presentation materials for seasonal benchmark meetings such as Sketch Review, Finalization, and Print & Color day.
* Excellent ability to sketch design ideas accurately and emotionally while maintaining a good sense of proportion and can accurately illustrate details to communicate design vision to manager.
* Possesses mocking, draping, sewing, and other technical skills related to garment making.
* Tracks, manages and organizes department samples.
* Maintain organized and up to date line sheet and assortment tools at all time

VISION

* Maintains awareness of trend, shares research and inspiration with team (social media, retail experience, street-style, competitive shopping and vintage exploration as it relates to the UO product).
* Brand ambassador and role model of our values.
* Demonstrates a close connection to UO customer.
* Works with design leads to execute creative vision in samples and presentations.

BUSINESS ACUMEN

* Analyze sales metrics every Monday to understand business and sell through of product.
* Maintaining and updating CADs for seasonal assortment in Adobe XD.
* General understanding and awareness of overall fit, fabric and construction intentions.
* Ability to investigates design solutions for projects with an awareness of cost, process, and impact on partners.

LEADERSHIP

* Independently executes assignments once given direction and effectively manages up in a timely manner.
* Develops well thought out comments and opinions using both POV and data to contribute during meetings.
* Openness to critique and ability to receive feedback openly and positively.

TEAMWORK/COLLABORATION

* Communicates and collaborates effectively both internally and with cross-functional partners and vendors to ensure product execution reflects design intent.
* Takes responsibility for organizing their work, time management and recognizing conditions and results that may impact the assignment.
* Maintains courteous, professional email/phone and interpersonal relationships with cross-functional partners and vendors.

DRIVE

* Flexible, adaptable and responsive to fast-paced work environment while maintaining style and design vision integrity.
* Asks questions and strives for clarity, quickly learns from mistakes and actively seeks solutions.
* Can-do attitude and willingness to jump in and help teammates during down time.
* Effectively manages up when needed.

Role Qualifications
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* Bachelor Degree in Fashion Design or related area of Study preferred.
* 1-2 Years Design Experience at a similar brand or organization preferred.
* Proficient in Adobe Suite and Microsoft Office Suite.
* Ability to promt AI to render imagery for creative and presentation purposes(MidJourney, PromeAi, and ChatGPT).
* Tradestone and BOM maintenance experience preferred.
* Highly organized with flexibility in a fast paced environment and adaptability to frequent changes.

The Perks
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URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

EEO Statement
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URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.