Associate Apparel Designer, Simms

Job DescriptionThe role of the Associate Designer within the Outdoor Performance platform team is crucial for enhancing product innovation and ensuring high-quality product standards. As an Associate Designer, you play a vital role in contributing to the product creation of innovative, functional apparel products that align with Simms Fishing Products requirements for performance, quality, and aesthetics. Your responsibilities include working closely with internal teams such as the design, materials, product development and merchandising team to transform ideas into tangible products and support the team in the product development process. Collaboration is critical as you navigate and support the journey from concept creation to final production, ensuring that the development process runs smoothly and efficiently.This position reports to the Design Manager and is based out of our Bozeman office.As Associate Designer, You Will Have An Opportunity To Collaborate with the design team to develop color palette along with print, yarn dyes and graphic applications on a seasonal basis. Manage pantone documents and trim color documents throughout each seasonal development Maintain organized filing system keeping the design team on track and organized for each product development cycle Manage design boards by season with seasonal sketches and ensure all sketches are update to date Produce, maintain and update creative presentations – Visual line plans, support in sales meeting presentation creation, design review presentation creation and set up Research and identify trends (color, trims, patterns/prints) and distill how to apply that information to seasonal product designs to appeal to target consumers. Assist in creating and manipulating prints, patterns, and texture fills. Responsible for maintaining VLPs (Visual Line Plan) and capturing changes throughout the entire development lifecycle – collaborating with sales and merchandising team to ensure all updates and revisions