Apparel Graphic Designer
Description
As an Apparel Graphic Designer, you'll breathe life into collections that celebrate and empower women, collaborating with design and merchandising teams to develop original apparel graphics that resonate with our passionate community. This role blends creative excellence with commercial insight, offering the opportunity to push creative boundaries while maintaining the sophisticated, feminine aesthetic that defines the Torrid brand. This job operates as a hybrid position going to our Torrid HQ in City of Industry, CA three days a week.
What You'll Do:
- Create innovative and commercially viable artwork and graphics for in-house apparel, across multiple categories and inspirations maintaining Torrid's brand aesthetic while pushing creative boundaries.
- Transform fashion trends into captivating artwork that speaks to our customers’ preferences, developing seasonal concepts that merge commercial viability with artistic innovation.
- Passionate about keeping up to date on current trends and presenting new graphic concepts and ideas as well as showing enthusiasm for analyzing business performance metrics to inform design decisions.
- Thrives in a collaborative environment while maintaining strong individual creative vision.
- Pioneer fresh graphic directions across multiple categories, from casual essentials to statement pieces, while maintaining a cohesive brand narrative.
- Develop seasonal design concepts aligned with fashion trends, customer preferences, and market research.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including design, merchandising, product development, and production to ensure designs meet both aesthetic and technical requirements while preserving artistic integrity.
- Contribute to creative discussions and contribute to the team's artistic direction through active participation in strategic planning sessions.
- Ensure all artwork is consistent and updated on the server and meets production specifications.
- Create detailed artwork specifications, including print techniques, color standards, and placement guidelines that bring your creative vision to life.
- Maintain an organized digital asset library while ensuring all artwork meets production specifications.
- Master technical execution in Adobe Creative Suite, with expertise in color separation and file preparation for production.
- Demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of feminine aesthetics and contemporary fashion trends. Possessing a keen eye for color, pattern, and composition that resonates with core customer.
- AA or BA in Graphic Arts / Fine Arts / Illustration preferred.
- Formal Training (certified) and / or educational background in Graphic Arts required.
- Minimum of five (5) years of applied experience working as a Graphic Designer within an apparel company.
- Strong computer skills including Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Advanced Adobe Programs (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign etc.) skills required.
- Expertise in a Mac environment.
- Knowledge of print production.
- Knowledge of how to import/manipulate original fine art and digital media.
- Design skills to include drawing/sketching, painting, typography, color theory, texture and visual presentation.
- Illustrates a dedication to meeting requirements of internal and external customers, responding to all cross-functional partner requests promptly and thoroughly.
- Strong communication skills including ability to work in a team environment, give honest, direct feedback. and is a solid verbal and written communicator.
- Meets deadlines, prioritizes appropriately, copes well with change, and maintains composure under pressure.
- Approaches obstacles proactively and looks for ways to resolve problems and issues while accountable for achieving results.
What You'll Get:
- A culture where people are accepted and encouraged to be who they are.
- Competitive compensation, 401k with company matching contribution, plus potential to earn company performance-based bonuses.
- Comprehensive wellness package including, medical, dental, vision, and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Generous 50% employee discount and access to employee-only sales.
- Support the causes you're passionate about. We pay you up to 32 hours annually for volunteering your time in the community.
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Aimed at helping employees address a variety of personal and family issues including legal financial consultations, mental health services and more.
- Discounts on cell phones, and computer purchases, entertainment tickets and more.
- Pet insurance for your fur babies.
- Work and learn alongside industry-leading executives while making huge strides in impacting the lives of women.
- You'll be challenged and grow. Opportunity for upward mobility is available at all levels of the organization.
Salary range: $72,000 to $90,000.
We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status. If you are unable or limited in your ability to use or accesswww.torridcareers.comyou can request reasonable accommodations by sending an email toaccommodations@torrid.com. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Our company participates inE-Verify. If the links below do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window:
E-Verify Poster:https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf
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Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish):https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RighttoWorkPosterES.pdf
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):https://careers.jobvite.com/torrid/2023-CPRA-Applicant-Notice.pdf
EEO Poster:https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
E-Verify Poster:https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf
Eligibility to Work Poster (English):https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/IER_RightToWorkPoster.pdf
Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish):https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RighttoWorkPosterES.pdf
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):https://careers.jobvite.com/torrid/2023-CPRA-Applicant-Notice.pdf
EEO Poster:https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
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Our company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate’s eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.
E-Verify Poster: https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf
Eligibility to Work Poster (English): https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/IER_RightToWorkPoster.pdf
Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish): https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RighttoWorkPosterES.pdf
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA): https://careers.jobvite.com/torrid/2023-CPRA-Applicant-Notice.pdf
EEO Poster: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf