Apparel Technical Designer – Women's Lounge, Intimates

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the Comfrt brand, its customers, and aesthetic, along with a strong awareness of current fit trends, proportions, and premium product standards.

• Conduct seasonal competitive fit benchmarking to gain insights into evolving fit trends, silhouette changes, and industry-leading standards across the market.

• Stay informed about key benchmark brands and emerging trends, leveraging these insights to continuously refine and enhance Comfrt's fit standards.

• Collaborate closely with Creators, Design, and Product teams to ensure that fit evolves with the brand, remains relevant to customers, and provides a premium, high-quality product experience.

• Uphold exceptionally high standards for fit, quality, construction, and overall customer experience, ensuring every product aligns with the brand vision.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive tech packs that include technical flat sketches, construction details, BOMs, measurement specifications, POM diagrams, grading specifications, and trim and artwork placement details.

• Ensure all tech packs are accurate, ready for production, and updated throughout all stages of development.

• Oversee the fit preparation and execution process, which includes sourcing fit models, setting fit schedules, preparing fit samples and lists, measuring garments, and leading fit sessions.

• Analyze fit issues and propose pattern corrections and construction enhancements.

• Provide clear, concise, and actionable fit comments to both overseas and domestic vendors, ensuring timely feedback to support development calendar deadlines.

• Establish and maintain standardized fit processes, protocols, and standards across all Women's categories to guarantee consistency, efficiency, and accuracy.

• Introduce structure and organization to the fit process by creating clear workflows, documentation, and communication standards that enhance speed to market and product quality.

• Maintain a strong understanding of fabric behavior, including shrinkage, stretch and recovery, wash impact, and garment balance and fit consistency.

• Address construction and production challenges with factories and cross-functional teams.

• Review and approve Proto, Fit, PP, TOP, and bulk production samples.

• Coordinate the wear testing process, including requesting and preparing samples, shipping wear test packages, and compiling and analyzing feedback.

• Partner closely with QA teams to improve product consistency, define tolerances, and minimize quality issues.

• Ensure the final product meets approved gold seal standards and brand expectations.

• Serve as the technical point of contact for overseas and domestic vendors, fostering strong relationships that enhance communication, speed, and sample execution.

• Collaborate closely with Design, Product Development, Merchandising, Production, QA, and Fabric teams.

• Maintain design intent while balancing manufacturability, quality, cost, and speed to market.

• Update WIP reports and ensure organization across all stages of development.

• Track and follow up on samples, approvals, and vendor deadlines.

• Assist the Technical Design Manager and Product Development team with shifting priorities and urgent business needs.

• Contribute to improving technical design processes, organization, and workflow efficiencies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design, Apparel Production, Technical Design, or a related field is preferred.

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Design within the apparel industry.

• Experience in activewear, fleece, knits, lounge, and sleepwear categories is preferred.

• Strong understanding of garment construction, fit, grading, and pattern corrections.

• In-depth knowledge of fabrics, including stretch, shrinkage, recovery, drape, and wash behavior.

• Experience with tech packs, spec sheets, grading, and sample management.

• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator (required), Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Google Drive.

• Experience with PLM systems is preferred; familiarity with CLO 3D or AI pattern software is a plus.

• Previous experience in a remote or hybrid work environment is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off

• Company-covered health insurance

• 5% 401k match

• Discounts on all Comfrt products