Jobs at Urban Outfitters, Inc.

Develops original, production-ready prints for Anthropologie, translating trends and concepts into cohesive seasonal assortments across silhouettes and categories. Responsibilities include creating motifs, repeats, placements, color directions, and technical artwork packages; presenting work; managing approvals and timelines; collaborating cross-functionally; and mentoring emerging designers. The role requires strong fashion or lifestyle design expertise, technical proficiency, color knowledge, and the ability to use AI for ideation and presentations.

Leads the creation of original print, pattern, embroidery, and surface-design artwork for Urban Outfitters. Partners with design, buying, color, product development, and technical design teams on seasonal trends, layouts, colorways, engineered prints, CADs, and vendor tech packs. Maintains organized files, meets deadlines, supports the seasonal textile vision, and mentors junior designers while ensuring work reflects brand DNA and customer preferences.

Leads apparel product commercialization from development handoff through salesman samples and bulk production. Partners with design, buying, technical design, materials, production, suppliers, and factories to manage calendars, costing, quality, sustainability, garment construction, testing, and margin goals. Identifies cost savings and process improvements, troubleshoots manufacturing issues, supports product marketing content, and coordinates multi-season development. Requires international vendor travel and expertise in garment wash and dyeing, sourcing, manufacturing, and costing.

Leads FP Movement’s global operations calendar and cross-functional processes from product creation through commercialization and post-consumer operations. Partners with product, sourcing, design, merchandising, marketing, and sales to improve speed, efficiency, capacity planning, and go-to-market execution. Develops operating models, dashboards, performance metrics, executive materials, and process improvements while championing analytics, automation, and generative AI across the retail organization.

Leads complex, cross-functional digital commerce and transformation initiatives from planning through delivery. Manages project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, governance, stakeholder alignment, and executive communications. Partners across business, technology, analytics, and growth teams on e-commerce, personalization, customer data, checkout, localization, and digital experience initiatives. Supports operational readiness, change management, rollout planning, documentation, and adoption of new capabilities while driving progress without direct authority.

Develops and manages seasonal color direction for FP Movement activewear. Responsibilities include trend research, palette development, color boards and swatches, color naming and coding, cross-functional communication, lab dip and strike-off approvals, vendor feedback, production color consistency, and maintaining color libraries and PLM records. The role requires strong color acuity, apparel fabric knowledge, dyeing-process expertise, Adobe Creative Suite proficiency, and the ability to manage overlapping seasonal deadlines.

Manage wholesale footwear accounts across the full sales lifecycle, including sales and margin performance, market appointment preparation, order maintenance, product data and copy requirements, EDI readiness, weekly sales reporting, best-seller reviews, reorders, and online merchandising accuracy. The role requires strong attention to detail, multitasking, Excel skills, and seasonal travel.

Researches and forecasts seasonal fashion and cultural trends across color, print, graphics, fabric, silhouette, footwear, and design details. Creates visual trend guides, presentations, and publications to inspire design teams and communicate trend direction to cross-functional partners. Collaborates with designers, buyers, wholesale, retail, and sales teams while aligning trend concepts with customer needs and business objectives.

Leads embellishment, embroidery, craft, and surface design for Free People’s femme apparel. Develops seasonal artwork, sourcing packs, mood boards, colorways, engineered layouts, CADs, and technical packages while collaborating with design, buying, product development, technical design, vendors, and factories. Researches trends and materials, uses traditional and digital techniques, explores AI platforms, mentors direct reports, manages deadlines, and improves team processes.

Leads Urban Outfitters’ editorial copy and brand voice across retail, digital, social, campaigns, and in-store channels. Develops culturally relevant storytelling, editorial platforms, style guides, and content strategies while balancing creative, SEO, and business goals. Partners cross-functionally with marketing, merchandising, creative, PR, and digital teams; mentors copy and editorial talent; manages freelancers and vendors; and drives workflow efficiency through AI, automation, analytics, and project management tools.

Design innovative sweater dresses across Anthropologie brands, translating seasonal concepts and trend research into commercial product. Responsibilities include creating sketches, CADs, stitch techniques, swatches, tech packs, and construction details; sourcing yarns and materials; collaborating with product development, technical design, and vendors; tracking approvals; attending fittings; and traveling to factories as needed. The role requires expert sweater construction, manufacturing, fabric, trim, and production knowledge.

Lead denim apparel design from concept through production, developing trend-driven styles, technical sketches, tech packs, trims, washes, and garment construction details. Collaborate with design, production, buying, technical design, vendors, and product development teams to manage samples, fit recaps, design changes, and deadlines. The role requires strong denim expertise, CAD and hand-sketching skills, garment construction knowledge, and the ability to manage designers in a fast-paced, on-site environment.

Coaches and supports allocation teams while managing store sales and inventory plans for assigned merchandise categories. Analyzes sales, inventory, size and color performance, product flow, and store-level trends to optimize allocations, profitability, and customer availability. Partners with planning, buying, visual, distribution, and store teams on forecasts, assortment planning, replenishment, buying decisions, and business reviews.

Provides IT support for a distribution center and enterprise desktop environment. Prioritizes service desk incidents and critical priority-one issues, coordinates escalations, improves IT service levels, enforces hardware and support standards, supports production technologies, and collaborates with offsite IT teams and third-party vendors.

Supports the Textile team by developing print layouts, technical repeats, engineered placements, tech packs, and production-ready artwork. Maintains organized digital assets, coordinates sampling and vendor communication, manages seasonal artwork packages, and operates Epson printers for in-house sampling. The role also assists with print troubleshooting, workflow improvements, documentation, and maintaining an efficient studio environment.

Leads seasonal fashion direction for soft wovens and knits, including trend research, fabric and yarn sourcing, apparel design, color development, technical sketches, fittings, and sample reviews. Supervises designers, communicates construction and fit requirements, collaborates with buying, production, and technical design teams, and ensures products meet quality, cost, timing, and brand standards.

Supports supply chain planning and forecasting across URBN brands, including sales and operations planning, long-range planning, inbound scorecards, call center forecasting, labor planning, logistics planning, and global performance metrics. The role requires strong Excel modeling, SQL, data visualization, communication, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Leads Anthropologie’s digital marketing and paid media organization while covering a senior leadership leave. Builds an integrated media planning function connecting paid, owned, and outbound channels to customer journeys, analytics, forecasting, and investment decisions. Manages three senior managers and supports a 27-person team, coaches leaders, communicates strategy to executives, and partners with Brand, Creative, Social, Merchandising, Analytics, and Finance. The role establishes planning frameworks, calendars, evaluation standards, and cross-functional operating rhythms.

Designs seasonal jacket collections for Anthropologie, forecasting trends, selecting fabrics, trims, colors, and treatments, and developing technical sketches and tech packs. Collaborates with buyers, production, and technical design teams; manages fittings, factory development, costing, and manufacturing constraints. Leads, trains, and develops associate and assistant designers while presenting concepts, samples, and color palettes for review.

Leads Scrum delivery teams supporting warehouse management, order management, and logistics software. Translates business needs into technical requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans. Partners with Product Management, Engineering, UX, and QA to prioritize backlogs, assess risks and dependencies, coordinate software delivery, facilitate Agile ceremonies, and validate technical solutions through user acceptance testing. The role also requires understanding APIs, databases, SQL, JSON, and applying AI and LLM tools to requirements and documentation.