Fashion Designer Lead
São Paulo, Brazil
Assortment – Development & Buying /
Full-time /
On-site
AMARO is an omni-channel destination where customers can discover and buy a broad assortment from cool brands that match their lifestyle. Headquartered in São Paulo, our mission is to make it easy and delightful for all digitally minded consumers to find products that fit their lives and values.
Born in Brazil with global ambition, we design for how we believe the world should be, not what it is today. We are always growing together with our teams. It takes a more honest, accessible and clever approach to build our products and our customer experience. We are committed to understanding people's lives. It's in our DNA!
AMARO is looking for a Fashion Design Lead who has a great eye for fashion, premium aesthetics sense and deep fashion repertoire to lead our Fashion Designers from initial conception through to creative management, while maintaining brand integrity.
You will report to the Head of Assortment and will work closely with Buying & Development teams to realize a range that’s as stylish and fashion-forward as it is affordable and fast-selling.
What you'll do:
- Research: identify and propose new trends, advocates and influence trend ideas in assortments;
- Brand consistency and evolution: develop and maintain the brand's design standards to drive brand consistency and evolution. Provide innovative creative solutions that both elevate the brand and engage customers.
- Strategy and project management: present and deploy innovative ideas to keep AMARO always as a brand of the future, working with different areas of the company;
- Liaison: be the point of reference for fashion in the company, enlightening and teaching different teams about the latest trends. Influence cross-functional partners on product direction. Maintain seamless communication with partners on other teams, effectively translating creative strategy when needed;
- Analysis & Iteration: gather information about customer satisfaction and clients demand and insights to guide creative decisions, create new products and improve sales;
- Coach: 100% responsibility over Fashion Design team members - train, lead, motivate and inspire a team of Fashion Designers of several seniority levels. Review and thoughtfully critique your team's work, providing actionable feedback and helpful suggestions;
- Timeline management: manage aggressive deadlines and direct an even workload distribution across your team;
- Scale: always focus on delivery with an emphasis on best seller products and trending designs; working closely with the Category Manager to win the market;
- Think critically to drive efficiency, strategically planning work that can be used across multiple channels and media.
What your qualifications are:
- Extensive experience in style direction, illustration skills, deep fashion repertoire (knowledge of new brands and heritage brands);
- International experience will be highly appreciated;
- Systems: MS Office suite, Photoshop;
Who you are & your beliefs:
- Fashion, arts and history obsessed;
- Autonomous and reliable to run independently the team;
- International fashion aesthetics;
- Willingness to build a new vision of style in Brazil;
- Excellent communication skills and great team player;
- Highly organized with management skills.
Imagine if your job could impact millions of people's lives in a global scope. Along the journey, we are always looking for smart, humble, hard working and collaborative people who want to learn different skills, share their knowledge and grow together. We bridge the gap between business, technology and people and we always do the right thing.
We take hiring very seriously. Interviewing with us may include phone interviews, practical tests, on-site interviews, and a case study. Although we are unable to follow-up with each and every applicant, we do our best to run a thorough process for candidates with whom we identify a potential fit.
