Designer - Men's Knits
Levi Strauss & Co.
About the role: • Design and develop seasonal knitwear collections across multiple categories, ensuring alignment with brand direction, consumer trends, and commercial objectives. • Research global fashion, consumer insights, competitor assortments, and emerging design trends to create innovative and relevant product concepts.
• Develop design concepts, technical sketches, specifications, and artwork to support seamless product development and execution. • Partner with Raw Materials, Product Development, and Sourcing teams to identify innovative fabrics, yarns, trims, finishes, and construction techniques that elevate product quality and consumer appeal.
• Collaborate with mills, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to co-create new knit structures, fabric innovations, and value-added product solutions. • Work cross-functionally with Merchandising, Technical Design, and Product Development teams to ensure design intent, commercial viability, quality standards, and production feasibility are achieved.
• Participate in sample reviews, providing timely feedback on fit, aesthetics, garment construction, and execution to deliver best-in-class products. • Translate consumer insights and market opportunities into commercially successful assortments that strengthen category performance.
• Stay current with global fashion, retail, lifestyle, and textile innovations while incorporating sustainable and responsible design practices where appropriate. • Manage multiple seasonal projects simultaneously while delivering high-quality designs within critical timelines.
About you: • Experience & Education: Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design or a related discipline from NIFT, Pearl Academy, or an equivalent institute, with 10+ years of experience in Men's Knitwear Design. • Design Expertise: Proven experience designing across flat knit and circular knit categories with a strong understanding of garment construction, yarns, knit structures, fabric behavior, washes, and finishing