Senior Designer - Accessories

Description

Your Role

The Senior Designer, Accessories is a Manager-level position responsible for creating commercially viable product designs for the Victoria’s Secret & Co Accessories categories. This role presents and delivers brand-right designs that tie back to the overall concept and business strategy, encompassing style, color/print, and fabric for new and existing product lines. This role researches and interprets fashion trends and consumer needs that uphold the integrity of the product lines/brand. This person demonstrates a passion for the brand, inspires individuals, and relies on managerial skills to plan and accomplish goals. This person manages works under minimal supervision, exercising a moderate degree of scope/decision-making.

Why You Belong Here

At Victoria’s Secret, we acknowledge your value. We recognize that every associate has something unique to add to our brand and business. We strive to recruit, retain, and advance diverse talent that reflects the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work. We foster a culture where everyone belongs because we know our business thrives most when we look for, listen to, and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We place the customer at the heart of everything we do. We dream big, embrace curiosity and creativity while always learning from our mistakes. We lead with integrity, trust, and respect to achieve the best outcomes as one team.

Your Impact

• Initiate Accessories ideas at conception and deliver strong concepts and ideas for a marketable product line.
• Create brand-right, commercial designs that reflect the conceptual direction and business strategy.
• Deliver product designs with flawless execution, achieving goals with speed, agility, and acute attention to detail on time and in budget.
• Adapt designs based on feedback, incorporating for finalization.
• Execute design sketches/prototypes and provide specifications.
• Generate technical packages on Adobe Illustrator including sketches, product photos, measurements, and specifications that result in prototypes and market samples that represent requirements.
• Manage, inspire, and develop a team of junior design talent.
• Present designs to internal leader/team as well as key cross-functional partners.
• Actively participate in design and proto reviews with the Design Team and Product Development team.
• Collaborate and communicate with key partners throughout the design process including Merchandising, Product Development, and Marketing.
• Implement processes to understand/anticipate the needs of the customer to exceed customer expectations and readily react to their needs.
• Identify and recommend resources in sourcing new ideas, both internally and externally, and conduct ongoing competitor research/trend analysis.
• Anticipate/solve potential issues and provide conflict resolution.
• Assess practices to identify opportunities for greater efficiency and speed in delivery.

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Minimum Salary: $122,500.00

Maximum Salary: $165,900.00

VS&Co provides a range of compensation for this role as shown. Your actual salary will be determined by a number of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic region, or other relevant factors.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Degree in the design field with 8+ years related industry experience.
• Knowledge of handbag, small leather goods, and general accessory construction required.
• Knowledge of materials and hardware required.
• Proven experience as a designer with a portfolio showcasing strong sense of style and high taste level.
• Must have strong sketching ability, both freeform and technical drawings.
• Experience developing product directly with factories.
• Prior experience managing, inspiring, and developing junior design talent.
• Displays understanding of development from concept to production stage.
• Ability to build technical packages including sketches, measurements, details, color, and material placement.
• Advanced comprehension and usage of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign.
• Detail oriented skills and dedication to quality required.
• Collaborative partner with a team-oriented, and customer-service approach.
• Solid communication and presentation skills.
• Champion for change and able to react with speed and agility.
• Displays personal professionalism and accountability
• Moderate domestic and minimal international travel.
• Ability to be in NY office 3 days per week.

• Preferred experience using Centric PLM.

An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.