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Senior Designer, Polo Women’s Footwear
Ref #:
W165329
Department:
Design
City:
New York
State/Province:
New York
Location:
United States
Workspace Description
Ralph Lauren maintains a balanced approach to work arrangements, emphasizing both flexibility through hybrid options and the importance of in-person collaboration. North America corporate employees (excluding remote and regional roles) work from the office 2-3 days weekly. Some roles require a more frequent office presence. This policy aims to foster learning, strengthen company culture, and promote effective collaboration through face-to-face interactions.
Pay Range: The pay range for this job is $85000 - $161444 annually; actual pay is dependent on experience and geographic location.
Benefits: Base pay is only one part of our employee value proposition, which includes a robust benefits package, above-market time off, hybrid working arrangements, incentive compensation, where applicable, and varied learning opportunities.
Pay Range Max
161444
Pay Range Min
85000
Company Description
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands.
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.
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
The Senior Designer will work with Senior Creative Director for Polo Women to build a footwear line that is reflective of the creative vision of Ralph Lauren while pushing the aesthetic in a fresh and current direction. The candidate must be a positive team player who will collaborate with talented designers and cross-functional partners in the business.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Execute presentation quality sketches for footwear concepts and approved designs, hardware, and details.
- Research the market regularly for innovative & creative ideas, product awareness, and pricing in order to produce a creative and competitive product that will help grow the business.
- Responsible for tracking current and relevant shape & material trends via media, internet & shopping
- Work with Senior Brand Creative Director to initiate interesting and original seasonal concepts through tear sheets, material swatches, vintage or contemporary references and new sketches.
- Lead and oversee the development of design concept boards, pulling materials, trend analysis & the creation of presentation boards.
- Oversee product from concept right up to production and communicate any changes to the appropriate cross-functional partners
- Lead and execute design packages, full-scale specs and complete tech packs including all technical and materialization information needed for factories to produce the product.
- Able to render CADS in both Illustrator & Photoshop
- Able to present ideas & sketches digitally via Power Point & PDF decks.
- Lead in the conceptualization, design and fully spec new hardware development.
- Attending prototype reviews & fittings to ensure the continuity of designs.
- Lead communications to vendors and factories throughout all phases of product development.
- Lead and oversee updates to product changes throughout the season, i.e. color changes, quality changes and detail changes that might influence price, quantity & delivery.
- Partner with Merchandising and Product Development in all aspects of development from prototypes to market samples.
- Working within seasonal deadlines and design calendar milestones.
- Lead seasonal design meetings with Senior Leadership
- Maintain and organize the reference library and ensuring all records are stored properly.
- Create seasonal CADs for both internal and external design meetings.
- Lead & comment on all seasonal color lab dibs, materials and review seasonal masters.
- Assist in market research, trend analysis, sketching designs, CADS and building comprehensive full scale specs/mock ups.
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
- Past experience as a Footwear Designer.
- Knowledgeable about current luxury market trends
- Strong knowledge of footwear construction
- Strong Technical Skills-AI, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Hand sketching, construction knowledge
- Ability to create full scale technical specs utilizing CAD, hand sketching, and make physical mock ups
- Proficient in sketching and illustrating.
- 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
Ralph Lauren will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance laws.
