Senior Technical Designer, Women’s

Senior Technical Designer, Women’sLay

Lo (US office of Padma Textiles) | Los Angeles, CA (Downtown, Hybrid) | Full Time

About UsPadma Textiles is a global fashion design and manufacturing company founded in 1995. We have design offices in Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Los Angeles and Treviso, and we manufacture in Bangladesh, India, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Morocco, Portugal and Turkey. Lay

Lo, our US office in Downtown LA, holds apparel licenses for well-known American brands. We develop collections for department store, club and off-price retail partners. We are a small, fast-moving team building the US business from the ground up. This role sits at the center of how our product comes to life. The Role

As our Senior Technical Designer, you will own the technical design process for our women’s collections, from first proto through top of production. You’ll be our in-house expert on fit, pattern and construction. You’ll work hand in hand with design, sourcing and production in LA, and with our development teams and factory partners overseas.

This is a hands-on role for someone who moves quickly, solves problems independently and is excited to help build a business from the start. You’ll report to the COO and partner daily with the Director of Design and the Sr.

Manager, Sourcing & Production. What You’ll Do• Build and maintain tech packs from design sketches through production, with clear, accurate specs, construction details, BO Ms and grading• Lead fittings from initial proto through TOP.

Identify fit and construction issues and give clear, actionable corrections, pinning and marking up samples as needed• Develop and maintain women’s fit standards, size specs, grade rules and tolerances so fit stays consistent season to season• Use CLO3D to develop and review styles digitally, partnering with overseas teams to reduce physical sample rounds and speed up approvals• Communicate fit comments, revised specs and pattern corrections to overseas offices and factories, then track eve