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Head of Design

Employer
For Days
Location
New York or Los Angeles
Closing date
11 Jul 2021

Job Details

For Days is seeking a Head Designer to head apparel design across all categories.  This position reports directly to the CEO and will work as the chief merchandiser to design our collections.  This person should be highly skilled in product aesthetics and design, but also able to understand business results to inform product design.  The For Days work environment is results-oriented, thoughtful, and efficient. Our team has created a culture of kindness, partnership, and shared passion for bringing foundational change to a massively pollutive industry. 

About you...

  • You are genuinely enthusiastic about our brand and our mission
  • You are skilled at translating brand aesthetic into the design of items
  • You understand how to design in service to a customer
  • You have a sense of trend and how to incorporate trend into wearable designs

What You Will Do:

  • Partner with the head merchant to design into seasonal collection needs
  • Partner with the external design team to execute seasonal collections across all categories
  • Create seasonal color palettes, print, and graphics direction
  • Ensure adherence to development timelines
  • Ensure adherence to item level margin targets

What you Bring to For Days:

  • 10+ years of design experience at a vertical brand
  • High taste and sense of aesthetics balanced with a deep understanding of designing for a specific customer demographic
  • The ability to work effectively and respectfully cross-functionally
  • Design degree preferred, but not required.

About For Days

For Days was born from a vision for a better future. One where we can have everything without creating waste. 

The For Days team has a rich background in fashion and heralds from The Gap, Banana Republic, Band of Outsiders, Maiyet, and American Apparel. We believe in the power of diversity, community, and collaboration. For Days is female-founded and loves talent of all shapes, sizes, colors, religions, and backgrounds.

We have strict wage minimums, generous benefits, and personal leave policies, and aim to provide safe, rewarding, and empowering work environments for all who interact with For Days.

Company

For Days is on a mission to transform fashion into a circular economy by offering insanely great organic clothing in a zero-waste system available to everyone.

For Days is a leading innovator in fashion sustainability and is poised for rapid growth.  For Days has been named one of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas and also received their Innovation by Design award.  The company has been featured in Vogue, Allure, Glossy, and Forbes. 

Company info
Website
Telephone
3233634595
Location
13100 Yukon Ave
Hawthorne
CA
90250
US

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