Senior Associate, Experience Design

Description At Victoria’s Secret, we acknowledge your value. We recognize that every associate has something unique to add to our brand and business. We strive to recruit, retain, and advance diverse talent that reflects the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work. We foster a culture where everyone belongs because we know our business thrives most when we look for, listen to, and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion.We place the customer at the heart of everything we do. We dream big, embrace curiosity and creativity while always learning from our mistakes. We lead with integrity, trust, and respect to achieve the best outcomes as one team.Individual contributor responsible for assisting with the creation of commercially viable product designs across collections. Coordinate and deliver brand-right designs that tie back to the overall concept and business strategy; encompassing style, color/print, fit and fabric for new/existing product lines. Applies a solid working knowledge of fashion trends and consumer needs to product designs. Demonstrates a passion for the brand, inspires individuals and relies on limited experience to plan and accomplish goals. Takes direction under immediate supervision, exercising a minimal degree of scope/decision making.Your Impact:• Assist the design team in the creation of brand-right, commercial designs that reflect the conceptual direction/business strategy.• Deliver design sketches/prototypes and provide clear specifications for construction.• Build and maintain the sample room.• Create flat sketches and CAD images.• Prepare design team for routine and milestone meetings, including the coordination of line presentation boards/tableaus and selection of product samples.• Communicate ongoing development details to internal partners (i.e., Production, Tech, Merchants) and vendors, ensuring all communication is flowing to the correct people.• Partner with technical design on fit and execution of prototypes, assisting with scheduled fittings and necessary follow-up.• Track and organize development samples, ensuring they are delivered within required timelines and seamlessly passed off to key parties.• Attend routine team meetings and key partner alignment sessions.• Adapt designs based on feedback, incorporating for finalization.• Apply processes to understand/anticipate the needs of the customer to exceed customer expectations and readily react to their needs.• Utilize resources in sourcing innovative ideas, both internally and externally, and stay up to date on competitor research/trend analysis.• Communicate point of view clearly through mood boards and concept tears• Achieve set goals with acute attention-to-detail, tracking progress & anticipating potential issues.• Pursue/embrace opportunities to personally grow and develop skills/competencies.• Develop and understand the VS eye/brand identity and specific category.• Build and maintain effective relations with key partners.• Seek to improve process to deliver efficiently with speed/agility.Click here for benefit details related to this position.Minimum Salary: $63,500.00Maximum Salary: $77,175.00VS&Co provides a range of compensation for this role as shown. Your actual salary will be determined by a number of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic region, or other relevant factors.Qualifications• Exceptional talent with a commercial fashion eye and detail in product styling/performance• Exceptional organizational skills• Ability to recall information.• Customer service philosophy• Collaborative partner with a team-oriented approach• Highly motivated, passionate and results oriented.• Solid communication and presentation skills• Solid understanding and ability to communicate construction instructions.• Champion for change and able to react with speed and agility.• Flexible and creative problem solver• Personal professionalism and accountability• Moderate travel• Bachelor’s degree in design or equivalent experience• Entry level with some design experience in a comparable retail environment• Microsoft Office, Illustrator/Photoshop proficiency; Flex PLM a plusAn equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.