Job Title: Designer - Junior
Location: New York, NY (hybrid)
Contract Duration: Contract until 09/25/2026
HYBRID - In office 3 days a week @ 11 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001 (up to 10 weeks, p
Job Title: Freelance Assistant Designer, Girls Wovens
Department: Lifestyle Design
Reports To: Associate Designer
Location: New York, NY
Job Description
Freelance Assistant Designer, Girls Wovens
Department: Lifestyle Design
Reports To: Associate Designer
Position Overview
The Freelance Assistant Designer, Aéropostale supports the development and execution of seasonal apparel collections with a primary focus on Girls Wovens. This role partners closely with internal cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure collaborative product aligns with brand standards, design vision, quality expectations, and seasonal timelines. The Freelance Designer plays a key role in day-to-day design development, technical execution, and coordination across multiple stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Research and identify trend directions relevant to the customer and analyze competitive and aspirational brands. Shop the market on a regular basis to stay up to date on current market trends.
- Create and maintain organized digital concept/mood boards and inspirational boards
- Support the design team in creating and developing seasonal girl’s wovens collections.
- Research and identify trend directions relevant to the customer and analyze competitive and aspirational brands. Shop the market on a regular basis to stay up to date on current market trends.
- Create and maintain organized digital concept/mood boards and inspirational boards
- Support the design team in creating and developing seasonal girl’s wovens collections
- Create and update flat technical sketches through Illustrator and execute organized, accurate technical packages through PLM.
- Work closely with the CAD team to develop new and trend-right print and pattern seasonally.
- Prepare and maintain development decks, linesheets, and presentation materials like CADs and CBS sheets.
- Maintain awareness of corporate calendar and help supervisor manage deadlines
- Assist in approving strike-offs, lab-dips and other development materials.
- Assist in day to day responsibilities including filing/organizing, copying and updating development packages.
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- 1-2 years of experience
- Strong Illustrator sketching skills
- Must demonstrate proficiency in CAD, Photoshop, & Illustrator
- Must have ability to be flexible, multi-task and shift priorities
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
Company Description
TechLink Systems is a national provider of staffing services with offices all over the USA as well as development and support centers globally. We are a MBE (NMSDC), WBE (WBENC), and WOSB certified minority business that has been awarded 2017 TAPFIN Premier Partner, 2016 Manpower Excellence Award, 2016 TAPFIN Elite Partner, are a Known Tier Supplier for Agile 1, and have been ranked as a Top Women and Minority Owned Company since 2004 by several businesses including Philadelphia Business Journal, Diversity Business, Inc 5000, Inc 500, San Francisco Business Times, Diversity2000, and Los Angeles Business Journal.
We serve the contract staffing, direct hire, staff augmentation, recruitment, HR management, and project outsourcing needs of clients nationwide. Striving to create personal relationships with clients, TechLink Systems becomes a virtual extension of clients’ own in-house capabilities to help achieve new levels of growth, productivity, and competitiveness.
