Senior Product Developer, Womens
Apply NowCompany: Kith
Location: Brooklyn, NY 11226
Description:
Location: HQ- Williamsburg, BK
Status: Full-Time
Compensation: $80,000-90,000
RESPONSIBILITIES
EXPERIENCE
Who We Are
Established in 2011 in New York City, Kith is a lifestyle brand and specialty retailer that offers seasonal collections of men's, women's and children's apparel, accessories and footwear through a distinct lens of personal storytelling. Kith embodies a multi-faceted lifestyle, with uncompromising detail to fabrication and design. Led by Founder, CEO and Creative Director Ronnie Fieg, the brand is known globally for evoking nostalgia from a dynamic point of view, and working closely with a carefully selected set of best-in-class collaborators.
Kith operates 16 standalone boutiques around the world, and 3 shop-in-shops. Kith Treats, conceived from Fieg's childhood love for cereal, operates in 10 locations, as well as Sadelle's at Kith restaurants in Paris, Miami Design District, Toronto and Seoul.
KITH is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All career opportunities offered by Kith are fully on site, and if contacted, all email communication will come from a kith.com or kithnyc.com email address. Please note that any correspondence from an alternative email domain, or offering remote or hybrid work, is fraudulent."
Status: Full-Time
Compensation: $80,000-90,000
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Meet with design weekly, to discuss outstanding collections, timelines, fabrics, and allocation
- Once collection is confirmed, build seasonal WIP (Google Sheets) with all style information
- Create style numbers and color codes for every SKU
- Work with Design and RM to determine factory allocation
- Build BOMs for all SKUS
- Maintain Trim and Lining library across all factories
- Send seasonal T&A to all factories, outlining due dates and expectations
- Launch all Tech Packs for development and production
- Fill in HTS codes for each style, work with logistics to confirm
- Review and analyze all costing; enter costing into the WIP
- Enter all costing comparison information into the WIP, reviewing similar styles from previous year
- Prep samples / racks for Internal Buy meetings; printing CADS of missing styles, and working with RM to pull any necessary lab dips or strike offs
- All daily factory communication relating to development
- Help with research and develop for sweaters, RM does not work on sweater development. This is owned strictly by PD.
- Launch all seasonal trims; approve trim submits once received
- Check in all samples upon receipt
- Check weekly WIPs from the factories, and enter updates into the shared WIP
- Help materials with seasonal development and approvals
- Review key dates and strategy in order to maintain bulk timelines
- Ship all reference samples
- Season Product Knowledge (PK)
EXPERIENCE
- Extremely organized
- Can work in a very fast paced environment
- 5-7 years of Product Development apparel experience
- Understanding of basic garment construction
- Understanding of sweater development / construction
- PLM experience a plus
- Google Sheets experience a plus
Who We Are
Established in 2011 in New York City, Kith is a lifestyle brand and specialty retailer that offers seasonal collections of men's, women's and children's apparel, accessories and footwear through a distinct lens of personal storytelling. Kith embodies a multi-faceted lifestyle, with uncompromising detail to fabrication and design. Led by Founder, CEO and Creative Director Ronnie Fieg, the brand is known globally for evoking nostalgia from a dynamic point of view, and working closely with a carefully selected set of best-in-class collaborators.
Kith operates 16 standalone boutiques around the world, and 3 shop-in-shops. Kith Treats, conceived from Fieg's childhood love for cereal, operates in 10 locations, as well as Sadelle's at Kith restaurants in Paris, Miami Design District, Toronto and Seoul.
KITH is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All career opportunities offered by Kith are fully on site, and if contacted, all email communication will come from a kith.com or kithnyc.com email address. Please note that any correspondence from an alternative email domain, or offering remote or hybrid work, is fraudulent."