Apparel Technical Designer – Women's Lounge / Intimates
About Comfrt
Comfrt LLC is the fastest-growing ecommerce brand built on a mission to support mental health and create everything comfortable for an easy, stress-free, cozy lifestyle. We are obsessed with our customer and dedicated to building the ultimate comfort brand ecosystem.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled, detail-oriented Apparel Technical Designer – Women's Lounge / Intimates to join our Technical Design team. This role is critical in bridging the gap between creative design and production execution. The ideal candidate is proactive, flexible, organized, and thrives in a high-volume environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines.
This person must have a positive, can-do attitude and be comfortable working cross-functionally with Design, Product Development, Merchandising, QA, and overseas vendors to ensure all products meet the brand's standards for fit, construction, quality, and timeline. Strong technical knowledge across knits, fleece, activewear, loungewear, and sleep categories is essential, with a sharp eye for fit, garment construction, and overall product quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain a deep understanding of the Comfrt brand, customer, and aesthetic, with a strong awareness of current fit trends, proportions, and premium product standards.
- Conduct seasonal competitive fit benchmarking to understand evolving fit trends, silhouette shifts, and best-in-class standards across the market.
- Maintain a deep awareness of key benchmark brands and emerging trends, using these insights to continuously refine and elevate Comfrt 's fit standards.
- Partner closely with Creators, Design, and Product teams to ensure fit evolves with the brand, remains relevant to the customer, and delivers a premium, high-quality product experience.
- Maintain exceptionally high standards for fit, quality, construction, and overall customer experience, ensuring every product aligns with the brand vision.
- Create and maintain detailed tech packs including technical flat sketches, construction details, BOMs, measurement specs, POM diagrams, grading specs, and trim and artwork placement details.
- Ensure all tech packs are accurate, production-ready, and updated throughout all development stages.
- Own the fit preparation and execution process including sourcing fit models, setting fit schedules, preparing fit samples and fit lists, measuring garments, and leading fit sessions.
- Analyze fit issues and recommend pattern corrections and construction improvements.
- Submit clear, concise, and actionable fit comments to overseas and domestic vendors and ensure all comments are turned quickly to support development calendar deadlines.
- Establish and maintain standardized fit processes, protocols, and standards across all Women's categories to ensure consistency, efficiency, and accuracy.
- Bring structure and organization to the fit process by creating clear workflows, documentation, and communication standards that improve speed to market and product quality.
- Maintain strong understanding of fabric behavior, shrinkage, stretch and recovery, wash impact, and garment balance and fit consistency.
- Troubleshoot construction and production challenges with factories and cross-functional teams.
- Review and approve Proto, Fit, PP, TOP, and bulk production samples.
- Coordinate wear testing process including requesting and prepping samples, shipping wear test packages, and compiling and analyzing feedback.
- Partner closely with QA teams to improve product consistency, define tolerances, and reduce quality issues.
- Ensure the final product aligns with approved gold seal standards and brand expectations.
- Act as the technical point of contact for overseas and domestic vendors, building strong relationships that improve communication, speed, and sample execution.
- Collaborate closely with Design, Product Development, Merchandising, Production, QA, and Fabric teams.
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