Fashion Designer (Women's Contemporary)

Headquartered in Vernon, California, Lost Wander is recognized as leading designer, distributor, and retailer and known for its feminine silhouettes paired with signature floral prints and ruffles. Lost Wander offers trend driven design, craftsmanship and attention to detail at a compelling value to our customers. We are proud to be a female owned/ multi-cultural team and values diversity and equal rights to all our employees and business partners. We would love to bring in a hardworking, loyal, and honest individual to our team with below qualities: Your responsibilities: Create design direction and fabric/trim selections into designs for upcoming seasons. Create original flat sketches based on upcoming trends and mainstream designs Work with sample rooms and vendors to monitor and track samples, ensuring information on tech pack is accurately translated into development samples Research trends and bring in new ideas through competitive shopping, forecasting websites, and runway shows Research and source on latest trend of fabric, trim, and embellishments and present to the team Create tech packs with detailed specifications that include garment measurements, construction details, and trim/fabric information Create cost sheets and product lists on Excel before the season launch Organize all the design materials in the library. Our expectations from you: Must have a Bachelor’s or Associates degree in Fashion Apparel Design Must have 5 years of Fashion Design experience with Women's contemporary brand Must have strong design aesthetic, color sense, and conceptual skills Ability to create flat sketches by hand and illustrations in CAD Must be proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel, and Word Basic garment construction knowledge required Comprehensive knowledge of silhouettes, fabrication, color/print usage, graphics, embellishment layouts, and trim required Flexibility to adapt in a well to fast paced, rapidly changing work environment Must be a team player, open to take direction, and able to work well under pressure, but also able to work solely with leadership. We are looking for: You love complexity and strategy and are excited about continual improvement You are goal achiever, and you can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done Experience working in a small but high growth environment Organized, trustworthy and responsible with the tasks given Work with a sense of urgency-strong time management Someone who is positive and not a Debbie downer. Benefits & Perks: Medical, dental, vision insurance for eligible employees Paid vacation, sick, holidays for all employees Employee discount up to 60% off 401K