Senior Designer

Faithfull is looking for expressions of interest to join our design team. The role is a senior design position supporting the Head of Design on designing seasonal collections and exclusive collections.

The ideal candidate must possess a highly creative talent for design with a keen eye for details, a clear commercial understanding of our market. In addition, candidates with strong technical skills, and luxury design experience, are preferred. 

We are open to candidates working part time, full time, remotely, or from our office in Sydney. 

 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Research creative ideas and provide creative input through the creation of design mood boards
• Hand or CAD sketching of designs that reflect the creative briefs 
• Draping design ideas, and working closely with pattern makers and ateliers. 
• Clear communication to factories and suppliers of designs
• CAD work - illustrator sketches of new styles and render illustrations for presentation, including technical drawings for pattern maker guidance
• Designing and managing certain categories within the collections with a strong ability to execute whole SMS stories. 
• Brief and assist garment techs where needed on design specification packs with CAD illustrations and fabric details 
• Work to design deadlines to ensure adherence to the critical path
• Assist in developing capsule ranges and influencer collections
• Attend Design meetings during each stage of the seasonal Design process 
• Responsible for the correct presentation of all samples for Range Review where necessary
• Ensuring that design overview information is up to date and that tech packs when handing over designs
• Participate in seasonal handover to Production to ensure complex finishes are correctly executed at bulk stage
• Assist in fit sessions, where necessary taking note of changes and communicating these to the relevant team members.
• Sourcing with suppliers to support the Design teams ongoing research into new fabrications and trims

KEY SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Ideally 5+ years’ in a similar role 
• Proactive, motivated and enjoy working in a dynamic environment
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines 
• Solutions driven 
• Must have high attention to detail
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Strong relationship building skills and ability to maintain strong relationships
• A collaborative team member
• Be ethically minded
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills 
• Availability to travel 
• Ability to do sketches by hand
• Strong design and conceptual skills
• Strong sense of style and color

Please email applications to : ******@faithfullthebrand.com