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Design Associate, Luxury Handbags & Accessories
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Company Description
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
Assistant/Associate level handbag designer to assist the women's Collection and Men's Purple label handbag team in all aspects of the design process.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Assist in market research, trend analysis, sketching designs, CADS and building comprehensive full scale specs/mock ups.
- Responsible for entire product design process including market research, mood board creation, designing, sketching, specing and function.
- Track samples and protos, prep boards for meetings,
- Follow up with overseas factories on a daily basis regarding tech packs, style updates, and new developments.
- Oversee product from concept right up to production and communicate any changes to the appropriate cross-functional partners
- Organize seasonal materials/binders/files
- Learn and use the Airtable system
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
- Knowledgeable about current luxury market trends
- Design experience within Handbags and/or Accessories preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accessories Design preferred
- Able to work in the NYC office 5 days a week
- Strong Technical Skills-AI, Photoshop, XD, Hand sketching, construction knowledge
- Ability to create full scale technical specs utilizing CAD, hand sketching, and make physical mock ups
- Skills to multitask and manage competing calendar deadlines
- Ability to set a creative tone and to inspire ideas/new concepts
- Ability to conceptually visualize and build a line
- Experience communicating the development with factories
- Strong knowledge of handbag construction
- Excellent organizational, time management, and communication skills
- Design school training preferred
- Men’s bag experience a plus