Associate Technical Product Designer - Accessories

Disney Disney · Media · Kissimmee, FL +1

Associate Technical Product Designer with an accessories design background responsible for creating and maintaining seasonal technical sketches and tech packs for products like bags, headwear, footwear, and socks. Ensures product quality, consumer focus, and trend relevance across distribution channels, meeting financial targets. Involves sample reviews, vendor communication, R&D, and PLM system assistance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate and support product design team with technical sketch views and tech pack creation, prototype deliver trend-right consumer centric products that feature market-leading innovation and great price/value for each tier of the value pyramid.
  2. Build, standardize, and maintain technical block library for broader team use.
  3. Own technical sample reviews and communication: review samples and notate discrepancies from the tech pack.
  4. Communicate technical comments back to vendors via PLM and email.
  5. Conduct R&D on new silos.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of related work experience
  • Portfolio examples with a special focus on accessory technical specifications (tech packs)
  • Knowledge in hardlines/softlines categories (e.g. raw materials, textiles, print, sewing, construction, patternmaking, manufacturing)
  • Strong problem-solving skills: costing, construction, corrections to achieve the best outcome for the organization
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong product design skills (e.g. 3D product design, technical design, sketching, creative application and manipulation of art, final mechanical art, fabric and trim identification)
  • Demonstrated computer software skills in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint & Excel
  • Highly motivated problem solver that pays close attention to detail
  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field (e.g. industrial design, accessories design, fashion design) or equivalent work experience