Prominent Surf Brand - Women's Textile Designer
Ethos Brands
Role Summary
The Women’s Textile Designer is responsible for developing original prints, patterns, and surface designs that bring The Prominent Surf Brand’s Women’s seasonal collections to life. The role combines textile design expertise with a strong understanding of women’s fashion, surf and swim culture, color, styling, and evolving consumer trends.
Working closely with Women’s Design, Merchandising, and Product Development, the designer translates seasonal concepts into distinctive textile stories across swimwear, apparel, and lifestyle product. The role balances fashion relevance with The Prominent Surf Brand’s authentic surf identity, ensuring prints enhance garment silhouettes, support seasonal merchandising strategies, and meet technical and commercial requirements.
Salary Range: $75,000 - $90,000 Key Responsibilities & Job Duties1. Textile Design & Print Development
Develop original all-over prints, engineered prints, placement prints, florals, stripes, geometric patterns, abstract designs, and other surface treatments. Create seasonal print stories across swimwear, dresses, tops, bottoms, cover-ups, and lifestyle apparel, as applicable to the collection.
Explore hand-drawn artwork, vintage references, natural influences, and contemporary fashion trends. Develop print scale, repeat, placement, and colorways appropriate to each garment and product category. Ensure textile direction creates a cohesive relationship between swim, apparel, and seasonal lifestyle collections.
2. Market Shopping & Trend Research
Conduct regular market shopping across women’s fashion, swimwear, surf, resort, outdoor, and lifestyle brands. Identify emerging directions in prints, patterns, color, texture, and textile treatments. Analyze competitive assortments and identify opportunities for differentiated print and color stories.
Translate consumer insights and trend research into original, commercially relevant designs. Maintain an understanding of how women shop, style, and build seasonal collect