Emerging Blue, Inc.
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Freelance Sr.Apparel Designer
Posted: 06/05/2025
2025-06-05
2025-07-14
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Category: Product Design & Merchandising
Job Number: PS27856465
Job Description
Sr. Apparel Designer - Contract/ Freelance role
Our Client is a multidisciplinary creative studio found at the intersection of branding, product, and fashion design. We collaborate with culture-forward brands across fashion, hospitality, and lifestyle to bring forth brand stories with depth and clarity. Our work is rooted in process and innovation — design for humans, by humans.
Position Summary
- We are seeking an Sr. Apparel Designer to support our team on ongoing capsule collections and brand collaborations across multiple apparel brands.
- The ideal candidate is someone with a deep appreciation for visual storytelling, adept to narrative art direction, and the ability to effortlessly translate look, feel and voice into physical garments.
- The right candidate will have experience in defining market trend/competitive research, developing concept designs, detailed design, color story, graphics, and product specifications to a finished stylized design in a complete tech pack.
- We value collaborators who are curious, creatively agile, and grounded in both technical craft and cultural awareness.
- The ideal portfolio should reflect experience in Lifestyle apparel, streetwear, elevated merch design or brand collaborations — and demonstrate a range of styles from refined to expressive, from technical to editorial.
- If you’re not sure if your portfolio fits the bill… apply anyway- we want to see your work.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Haus Haus creative team to oversee multiple collections across our range of collaborating brands
- Conduct market research to identify new trends, fabrics and techniques, and seek design inspiration. Identify opportunities for new products Collaborate with team to select capsule themes, make edits to line, create new concepts, identify/select fabrics and trims
- Present story, mood, color boards, and inspirational samples to team
- Create production sketches for development packages, and develop tech packs as required
- Manage the overall design process to ensure that the product designed in concept is successfully meeting business needs, timelines and adjusting with feedback from the team. Designers should also work with the sourcing team to ensure all designs are coming in at cost targets
- Performs market research to fully understand textile trends and applications for assigned product category, competing brand benchmarks, materials specifications, and required functional performance for assigned material/project development
- Collaborates with Development Partners to identify and select materials for designs
- Create CAD mockups and visual aids that accurately communicate graphic placement and size on garments and packaging
- Must be comfortable in working on all product categories: wovens, knits, bottoms, outerwear, graphic tees, and accessories
- Responsible for the cohesiveness of assigned product categories
Qualifications
- 5 + years’ apparel design experience
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite
Who You Are
- Strong understanding of brand’s aesthetic
- Ability to creatively use color, shape, texture, and construction techniques
- Ability to hand sketch designs, create story boards, and develop detailed tech packs
- Strong knowledge of tech packs, garment construction and specs, fabrics, notions and trims
- Knowledge of current design and cultural trends, and how to thoughtfully integrate them into creative work.
- Flexible, reliable, responsive, and collaborative - able to both take direction and offer design leadership when needed
- Able to work independently and manage multiple projects while staying aligned with timelines and team workflows
- Willingness to learn, iterate, and support team feedback cycles as part of the design process
- Proficient use with software programs: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Google Suite, Asana
- Experience and ability to successfully communicate with overseas factories
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent time management skills.
To apply, please attach the following
- Your resume or CV
- A portfolio or examples of recent work showcasing relevant tech pack development, apparel production, and brand-aligned designs
Compensation will be hourly or project-based, depending on project scope and experience. Duration will be ongoing, and job opportunities could grow to full-time.
Meet Your Recruiter
Pooja Sachan
Originally from India, Pooja has spent 15 years in the design industry. Her passion is reflected in her previous entrepreneurial roles, and her current role as a fashion recruiter is like a match made in heaven. This enables her to utilize her skills into helping and guiding people to follow their passion and lead to them their ultimate goals.
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