NYC Alliance seeks a highly skilled Technical Designer with extensive experience working with Walmart to join our dynamic product development team. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of fit, construction, and technical specifications across multiple categories, along with the ability to communicate clearly with factories, cross-functional partners, and retail technical teams. This role is essential in ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality, fit consistency, and brand integrity from initial development through production. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, excel at managing details, and have a strong background in technical design for both Men's and Women's apparel—including direct Walmart experience—we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
• Develop technical packages for fit sample development in all categories
• Evaluate fit samples, pre-production and TOP samples for specs, quality and workmanship
• Participate in maintaining consistency of product fit, technical specifications and development processes across brands
• Involved in fittings with designers and merchandisers on live models and body forms
• Write up of fit comments to factory based on fitting providing technical comments and illustrations/photos
• Maintain a product library for future reference
• Correspond with factory and retailers’ technical staff on a daily basis to solve problems
• Work with Production department on follow-up and timing of approval comments to meet delivery expectations
• Act as a liaison between Design, Sales, Production, and Factory to ensure samples are made to correct specifications
• Log into vendor websites to update and retrieve information
• Plan appropriate fit schedules with models and designers
• Update and maintain department’s fit logs
Requirements
• 7+ years of experience in Men's /Woman's technical design
• Knowledge in assembling a detailed technical package to communicate proper instructions to agents/factories for style development
• Participated in fittings
• Assigning easily understood points of measure
• Ability to determine appropriate grade rules to all points of measure
• Highly organized and experienced in all phases of technical design
• Ability to partner and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines with a high sense of urgency
• Proficiency with PLM is a Plus
Benefits
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA
- Retirement Savings Plan Match
- Summer Fridays
- Discounts and More!
- Annual Salary $120,000
- The offered salary for this position will vary based on role requirements determined by NYC Alliance, skill set and years of experience.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in Men's/Woman's technical design
- Extensive experience working with Walmart / direct Walmart experience
- Knowledge in assembling a detailed technical package for style development
- Experience participating in fittings with designers and merchandisers
- Ability to assign clear points of measure
- Ability to determine appropriate grade rules for all points of measure
- Strong organization and experience in all phases of technical design
- Ability to partner and collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines with a high sense of urgency
- Proficiency with PLM
What We Do
Founded in 2008, NYC Alliance is a privately owned woman’s multi-platform apparel company. We are design centric, with superior quality and competitively priced. Our focus is on diversified product classifications catering to the needs of a woman’s lifestyle in sweaters, knits, wovens and active. Our reputation for being trend-right is built on seven in-house design teams creating original designs for Missy, Petite, Plus, Girls and Juniors. Our cross-functional teams are innovative and agile from sourcing raw materials to our manufacturing and distribution capabilities. Our end-to-end supply chain allows us to impact the market place with the highest quality and flexibility to produce over 40 Million Units annually. Our corporate philosophy has enabled us to continuously diversify our portfolio and adapt our business profile and product offerings in vertical manufacturing seasonally. We are committed to strong visual identity, quality assurance, and value delivering products that inspire loyalty.
