Location: HQ - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Status: Full-time/100% on-site
Compensation: $85,000-$90,000 annually
Position Summary
Kith is looking for a passionate and dedicated Technical Designer to join the team, with a deep understanding of garment construction, an exceptional eye for detail, and a strong ability to problem-solve for both structurally and visually. This role is ideal for someone who approaches garments as both engineered products and refined visual expressions.
This candidate will be responsible for ensuring fit, construction integrity, and execution excellence while collaborating closely with design, product development and production teams. A strong research mindset and the ability to anticipate and resolve construction challenges are essential.
Responsibilities
Develop and review technical packages, including detailed construction specifications, measurements, grading and workmanship standards.
Analyze garment construction from concept through production, identifying and resolving fit, construction and visual issues.
Lead fittings, communicate clear correction, and follow through on revisions with precision and clarity.
Apply strong garment construction and pattern making skills to maintain and promote Kith standards.
Research in construction and finishing as well as materials and fusible, resolving design request through mockups or other visual communication.
Understanding of the silhouettes, creating and maintaining the blocks for the fit library. Category ownership.
Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure design intent is preserved while meeting technical and production requirements.
Maintain high standards of visual excellence, ensuring garments are not only well-constructed but aesthetically refined.
Work with Vendor partners to translate design intent into prototype samples.
Provide fit comments with pattern corrections, illustration sketches and construction feedback to confirm fit and design intent.
Conduct the risk assessment process with Production team to mitigate risk in bulk production.
Execution of approving construction samples, mockups and bulk swatch/production.
Perform other technical design related duties, as needed.
Qualifications
5 to 10 years of experience in Technical Design
Bachelor's degree in Technical Design / Fashion Design
Extensive Patternmaking and Draping skills with Knowledge of garment construction
Contemporary / high end brand experience is preferred. Outerwear category
Menswear experience is preferred
Proficient in Gerber Accumark
Superior organizational skills and excellent time management
Excellent communication skills & team oriented
Highly proficient in Google software, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PLM
Who We Are
Established in 2011 in New York City, Kith is a lifestyle brand and specialty retailer that offers seasonal collections of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel, accessories and footwear through a distinct lens of personal storytelling. Kith embodies a multi-faceted lifestyle, with uncompromising detail to fabrication and design. Led by Founder, CEO and Creative Director Ronnie Fieg, the brand is known globally for evoking nostalgia from a dynamic point of view, and working closely with a carefully selected set of best-in-class collaborators.
Kith operates 16 standalone boutiques around the world, and 3 shop-in-shops. Kith Treats, conceived from Fieg’s childhood love for cereal, operates in 10 locations, as well as Sadelle’s at Kith restaurants in Paris, Miami Design District, Toronto and Seoul.
The Kinnect Foundation, a non-profit established and operated by Kith, is a non-profit devoted to creating positive change through education, community and social impact.
Kith is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All career opportunities offered by Kith are fully on site, and if contacted, all email communication will come from a kith.com or kithnyc.com email address. Please note that any correspondence from an alternative email domain, or offering remote or hybrid work, is fraudulent.