Sr. Designer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Female founded and led, Beyond Yoga creates buttery soft activewear and beyond for every size, shape, moment, and movement from our own line of meticulously researched fabrics. Our obsession for softness and fabrics, and a relentless pursuit of quality and fit makes Beyond Yoga a fan favorite at every stage of life. We proudly celebrate diversity and welcome all ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, belief systems, and identities.

We encourage our team to be active members of their local and global communities through opportunities like Social Good Day to participate in a cause of their choosing. Like us, the people we hire are passionate, honest, warm, enthusiastic, and fun!

In September 2021, we joined Levi Strauss & Co., one of the world’s largest brand-name apparel companies and a global leader in jeans wear. Beyond Yoga operates as a standalone brand with the benefit of LS&Co.’s global capabilities to help it achieve its goals of brand-building, store opening, category expansion and distribution.

Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA (Culver City area)

Employees: 140+ and growing

Position overview: This role helps lead the design process to yield consumer driven, innovative, and commercially viable products that deliver value and style for the Beyond Yoga brand as well as sustain the development, evolution and communication of the brand look that supports and deepens the brand value and identity. You contribute to design vision that inspires both global and local creative hubs and brings product to life.

What We’re Looking For:

In this role you:

• Communicate a clear design point of view and direction around an athletic-inspired, casual lifestyle brand look that supports the brand identity.
• Identify trends in the global and local marketplace and filter through brand aesthetic.
• Contribute to the direction of the business by establishing design vision and formulating original concepts.
• Develop seasonal design platforms and concepts by identifying consumer-relevant opportunities through market research
• Ensure seasonal collection communicates both big fashion ideas and locally relevant messages that result in a consistent and integrated consumer experience.
• Understand nuances in both global and local consumer behavior and competitive pressures.
• Collaborate and influence within and across different parts of the organization.
• Understand broader design trends across multiple categories and disciplines.
• Design and develop the selection of the fabric, color, print/pattern, details and trims seasonally.
• Execute the design process components to achieve or exceed targets for the seasonal calendar, assortment plan and source location requirements Sustain effective partnerships with Merchandising, Product Development and Sourcing to ensure products are engineered to profit and quality/aesthetic goals

About You:

• College Degree in apparel design, or a combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 7 years design experience, including 3 years as an apparel designer or lead designer in an athleisure or athletic-inspired category or brand.
• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Suite
• Strong team-oriented individual with the ability to work in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment with changing priorities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• PC/MAC literacy/fluency including Excel and Power Point
• Knowledge of PLM would be helpful

The expected starting salary range for this role is $66,5- $104,800. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on the location of the role. The amount a particular employee will earn within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance and business needs.

Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive plans, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, meet your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role; details relating to a specific role will be made available upon request.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits or other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Levi Strauss & Co. is committed to equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and recruiting and maintaining a workforce that welcomes and respects people from diverse backgrounds while enabling our employees to make an impact. We value the unique combination of talents, experiences, and perspectives of each employee, making our collective success possible.

We put a lot of thought into our programs to provide you with a benefits package that matters. Whether it is for medical care, taking time off, improving your health or planning for retirement, we've got you covered. Here's a small snapshot:

• 401K match: $1.25 for every $1.00 you contribute up to the first 6% of pay you save.
• Five hours of paid volunteer time per month with nonprofit organizations
• Product discount of 60% off regular-price merchandise
• Paid Family Leave

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LOCATION

USA, Culver City, Beyond Yoga HQ

FULL TIME/PART TIME

Full time

Current LS&Co Employees, apply via your Workday account.