Your Role
The Senior Designer, Accessories is a Manager-level position responsible for creating commercially viable product designs for the Victoria’s Secret & Co Accessories categories. This role presents and delivers brand-right designs that tie back to the overall concept and business strategy, encompassing style, color/print, and fabric for new and existing product lines. This role researches and interprets fashion trends and consumer needs that uphold the integrity of the product lines/brand. This person demonstrates a passion for the brand, inspires individuals, and relies on managerial skills to plan and accomplish goals. This person manages works under minimal supervision, exercising a moderate degree of scope/decision-making.
Why You Belong Here
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.
Your Impact
- Initiate Accessories ideas at conception and deliver strong concepts and ideas for a marketable product line.
- Create brand-right, commercial designs that reflect the conceptual direction and business strategy.
- Deliver product designs with flawless execution, achieving goals with speed, agility, and acute attention to detail on time and in budget.
- Adapt designs based on feedback, incorporating for finalization.
- Execute design sketches/prototypes and provide specifications.
- Generate technical packages on Adobe Illustrator including sketches, product photos, measurements, and specifications that result in prototypes and market samples that represent requirements.
- Manage, inspire, and develop a team of junior design talent.
- Present designs to internal leader/team as well as key cross-functional partners.
- Actively participate in design and proto reviews with the Design Team and Product Development team.
- Collaborate and communicate with key partners throughout the design process including Merchandising, Product Development, and Marketing.
- Implement processes to understand/anticipate the needs of the customer to exceed customer expectations and readily react to their needs.
- Identify and recommend resources in sourcing new ideas, both internally and externally, and conduct ongoing competitor research/trend analysis.
- Anticipate/solve potential issues and provide conflict resolution.
- Assess practices to identify opportunities for greater efficiency and speed in delivery.
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