Assistant Designer, Woven + Knit Tops

Sundance is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Assistant Designer to join our Apparel team in designing woven + knit tops. Sundance is a leading omni-channel specialty retailer with headquarters located in Salt Lake City, UT. Founded in 1969 by Robert Redford, Sundance is a unique brand that supports artistic endeavors and focuses on creativity, originality, and inspiration.Summary:The Assistant Designer, Woven + Knit Tops will support our Apparel team in designing Woven + Knit Tops. Responsible for assisting with the design and creation of woven + knit tops in women's apparel that are leading in design, innovation, function and quality, while also being reflective of Sundance's design philosophy and standards. Will assist Design Director and VP of Design as needed. Essential FunctionsConduct inspirational research by reviewing runways, aspirational retailers, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. based on manager's direction while gathering images and preparing for reviewCreate colorways of print/pattern, develop embroidery artwork, and/or color up embroidery artwork and prepare artwork packages to pass to vendorsCreate color dolls in preparation for sketch reviews, sketch a portion of the assortment as needed and directed by managerSet up tech packs with adopted sketches, do detail sketches, select trims for review, and outline all details as directedAttend fittings to capture all aesthetic fit notes for future reference in fittings, type up and send to TD, use as a forum for learning to fit garments designed by AssistantFill all sketches and tech packs in appropriate folders and according to structure for PD hand off, manage all fabric submits by filing and organizing regularly, organize and manage all development binders for reference, create line sheets for color doll reviews, capture all notes on product changes at line adopt meetings and file, prepares and sends email communication on submits or Design Assist vendors on pre development, communicatesAttend and support VP of Design in preparing and samples, maintaining organization of racks for these meetings, photograph all styled looks at Pre Walkthrough, creates Document for Walkthrough, attends Walkthrough orchestrating models dressing order and appropriate styles are on correctly, captures notes and changes on Designer CatalogOrganize samples and prepares key information on each sample for presentations and post each meeting organizes racks, supports VP by creating enlarged color dolls of recolored items for Book BuildSupport Design Director as needed in preparation for presentations by developing Point of View Meeting Docs and Concept Adoption Documents