Associate Designer, Women's, Print & Pattern

About Old Navy

Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you’re choosing a different path. From day one, we’ve been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season. 

We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we’re family.

About the Role

In this role, you will work in an energizing, inclusive, and creative environment focused on concepting and creating sustainable product that exceeds customers' expectations. Your goal is to partner with cross functional team members who collectively are responsible for ensuring that the printed pattern designs are more than worth the price for our customers. Responsibilities include participating in the conceptual development of the product line and ensuring product is consistent with market trends and brand strategies. Must lean into risk taking and be customer curious!

What You'll Do

• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment, with the ability to juggle multiple seasons at one time and track development deadlines.
• Possess an elevated sense of style, aesthetic, and color and understand how to translate trends through the lens of the customer and brand filter.
• Participates in research and conceptual development of seasonal print direction, as well as gather relevant inspiration outside of apparel that speaks to over-arching aesthetic trends.
• Responsible for design and creation of artwork - painting, digital etc., as well as cleaning of purchased artworks.
• Assists in ensuring that artwork and print direction is consistent with market trends as well as business strategy, drives opportunity for newness and innovation.
• Presents to team at milestone meetings.
• Collaborates with Concept and Apparel Design teams for colorways of prints. Communicates and recommends revisions when needed.
• Create and maintain seasonal color palettes.
• Assist in building presentation boards and materials.
• Reviews production submits in partnership with cross-functional team – ensures aesthetic and execution hold up to aligned standard.

Who You Are

• College degree in Textile/Fashion Design, Graphic Design, or related field.
• 2-4 years design experience, preferably in print design.
• Strong computer skills: NED Graphics Programs - Easy Knit, Easy Weave, Color reduction PRO & Cleaning PRO, Design & repeat PRO, Easy coloring pro 
• Strong computer skills: Adobe photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign
• Strong knowledge of CAD systems/software/printers & spectra flow plotters.
• Strong hand skills: Illustration, painting, drawing and digital art skills to be applied to fabric, knowledge of crafting repeats
• Strong time management, interpersonal communication, and organizational skills.
• Excellent design and color sense, color matching and creation of colorways
• Solid understanding of design process
• Technical Knowledge: Creating artwork with multiple layers of halftones, with an understanding on how these prints translate from digital to physical, sublimation and rotary printing processes; CMYK printing
• Technical knowledge of sweater construction: Yarn weights, stitches, and fibers and how they translate to print and pattern designs made with NED Easy Knit or illustrator.
• Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of textiles, how different fibers and fabrics take prints, and how to design into the inevitable variability among them, Understanding & execution of print repeats for mills & vendors.
• Trend Forecasting- researching markets to identify new print trends, color, fabric and how they appropriately relate to the brand/consumer through creation of conceptual mood boards to present print direction to merchant and design leadership to gain commercial alignment.

Benefits at Old Navy

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*
• Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.*
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.*
• Employee stock purchase plan.*
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*
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*For eligible employees