Lead design development across apparel, technical, CAD, and graphic design functions within A&F’s brands, progressing from concept to production while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.
Compensation
The A&F Design Full-Time Leadership Development Programs offer competitive compensation packages for trainees. Other benefits include $8,000 in placement and relocation bonuses, merchandise discounts at all our brands, use of the A&F gym, industry-leading healthcare coverage, and company matching savings and retirement programs. Our interns are compensated $9,000 for the 9-week summer program.
Responsibilities
Develop product concepts and technical designs from sketch to production
Create detailed tech packs and technical illustrations
Design seasonal prints, patterns, and embroidery for product categories
Produce graphic design assets for apparel lines
Collaborate with merchants, sourcing specialists, and vendors to ensure quality and fit
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Design or related field
As a Senior Design Engineer, Advanced Concepts, you will play a critical role in transforming early ideas into tangible, testable product solutions.
Compensation
Hiring Range: $118,800 - $135,000 USD Annual
Responsibilities
Develop proprietary solutions with unique intellectual properties, partnering with Legal to formalize patents and construction methodology.
Explore and apply emerging manufacturing technologies to inform new, more responsible ways of building products.
Evaluate all Forge-developed products with a focus on quality, performance, durability, repairability, and end-of-life considerations.
Build product construction specifications and document step by step constructions to help communicate with the Development, Inline Design, Quality, and Production teams for commercialization.
Partner with Pattern and Fit team ensuring our concepts adhere to our fit and pattern standards.
Requirements
Degree in Design, Pattern Making, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Independently lead technical industrialization and production readiness of complex and high-risk apparel products through integrated physical and digital development.
Responsibilities
Lead product industrialization across development, innovation, collaboration and commercialization stages using physical and virtual sampling.
Provide advanced technical expertise to resolve complex fit, pattern, construction, raw-material, manufacturing and product-performance issues.
Partner with Brand Development, Sourcing Development and vendors to engineer products that meet safety, fit, function, performance, quality, cost and manufacturability requirements.
Own development-to-production handover for assigned complex and high-risk styles.
Review and validate physical and digital samples across Proto, SMS, POC, PPS, Counter and Size Set stages.
Requirements
Degree in Apparel Engineering or related technical field
Develop foundational Apparel Engineering capability while supporting the technical development, sample review and production readiness of assigned apparel products under the guidance of experienced engineers.
Responsibilities
Learn and apply established Apparel Engineering standards, tools and processes to assigned products and development activities.
Support Brand Development, Sourcing Development and vendors with routine technical follow-up across development and commercialization stages.
Assist with fit, pattern, construction, measurement, material and manufacturing reviews.
Support construction, sizing, grading and block-related activities within clearly defined instructions and scope.
Raise unclear, complex, high-risk or material issues promptly rather than resolving them independently.
Requirements
degree
diploma
recognized technical training in apparel engineering, garment technology, technical design, pattern making, fashion technology, textile technology or a related discipline
Senior Technical Fashion Designer responsible for translating creative designs into accurate technical specifications and ensuring garment development meets design, fit, quality, and production standards.
Responsibilities
Develop detailed technical drawings, specifications, and Tech Packs
Review patterns and evaluate garment fit
Follow up on prototype and sample development
Identify suitable fabrics, trims, and materials
Ensure consistency between approved designs and final production
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design, Fashion Technology, Textile Engineering, or a related field
As the Fit Technician, you will contribute to Laura’s success by designing and modifying patterns to produce an executable garment that is balanced and proportional to the sketch and meets Laura Canada standards.
Responsibilities
Create initial pattern according to the Designer’s sketch and Laura Canada standards.
Prepare the specification sheets.
Lead sample fitting sessions on live models.
Make the appropriate corrections and provide suppliers with a detailed report of improvements to be made from first fit stage to the pre-production stage.
Ensure that the required corrections have been made on the next fit samples.
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