E I Careers: Senior Apparel Graphic Designer
Job Title: Senior Apparel Graphic Designer
Location: Remote
About Ellsworth & Ivey
Ellsworth + Ivey is a growing lifestyle brand known for elevated knitwear, distinctive custom collections, and a strong visual identity. The business operates across e-commerce, retail, wholesale, licensing, and strategic partnerships.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Apparel Graphic Designer to lead custom artwork development, contribute to seasonal collection development, and help shape the visual direction of the Ellsworth + Ivey brand.
Overview
The Senior Apparel Graphic Designer is a hands-on creative leader responsible for custom artwork, seasonal collection development, and the visual execution of the brand. This person will bring a strong creative point of view, lead projects from initial concept through production-ready artwork, and oversee and mentor a junior graphic designer. The role works across wholesale, custom partnerships, collegiate and licensed product, resort and hospitality, sporting organizations, corporate programs, retail, e-commerce, and Ellsworth + Ivey’s seasonal and core collections.
Key Responsibilities
Creative Direction and Collection Development
- Bring a clear creative point of view to seasonal collections, custom programs, and brand initiatives.
- Partner with leadership, product development, production, sales, and marketing to develop seasonal and core collections.
- Contribute ideas for graphics, colorways, silhouettes, product stories, categories, and seasonal themes.
- Create mood boards, color stories, graphic direction, artwork systems, and collection presentations.
- Identify opportunities to evolve best sellers, refresh core products, and introduce commercially relevant newness.
- Ensure collections feel cohesive, distinctive, and appropriate for the Ellsworth + Ivey customer.
- Balance creative direction with production feasibility, pricing, lead times, and sales potential.
Custom, Licensed, and Production Artwork
- Create original custom artwork for wholesale accounts, partners, and clients.
- Develop concepts for knitwear, apparel, accessories, packaging, events, and branded product.
- Translate logos, locations, mascots, landmarks, slogans, and brand elements into elevated, wearable designs.
- Create graphics, illustrations, patterns, typography, placement artwork, and colorways.
- Develop thoughtful design options based on customer needs, brand standards, production requirements, and commercial objectives.
- Create seasonal templates and scalable design systems that can be customized efficiently.
- Follow collegiate, event, league, and partner licensing guidelines.
- Prepare artwork for licensing submissions and incorporate feedback from accounts and internal stakeholders.
- Prepare accurate production-ready artwork, technical layouts, color callouts, placement specifications, and instructions.
- Partner with production to ensure designs translate successfully into knit, embroidery, appliqué, print, and other techniques.
- Review samples, proofs, strike-offs, and production submissions and provide clear revisions when needed.
- Maintain organized files, version control, approvals, and final production artwork.
Brand Design
- Lead or support collection graphics, product-drop templates, and broader brand assets.
- Partner with the Head of Brand & Marketing to translate brand and commercial direction into cohesive visual communication.
- Bring approved campaign concepts to life visually in partnership with the Marketing Strategist.
- Create or oversee line sheets, presentations, catalogs, lookbooks, social assets, email graphics, website banners, retail signage, packaging, and event materials.
- Maintain consistency across typography, color, layout, imagery, illustration, and graphic treatments.
- Develop templates that support quick-turn sales and marketing needs.
Leadership and Collaboration
- Oversee, mentor, and develop a junior graphic designer.
- Assign projects, manage workload, review work, and provide clear creative and technical feedback.
- Maintain visibility into priorities, revisions, approvals, and deadlines.
- Partner with sales to understand account needs and commercial opportunities.
- Collaborate with product development and production throughout concepting, sampling, approval, and production.
- Work with marketing on launches, campaign assets, presentations, social content, and digital needs.
- Participate in seasonal planning, assortment discussions, creative reviews, and account presentations.
- Help improve the custom-design process from initial brief through final production.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of apparel graphic design, art direction, or product design experience, preferably within fashion, knitwear, lifestyle, licensing, or consumer products.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating original artwork, collection development, custom design, typography, illustration, patterns, and brand execution.
- A strong creative point of view with an understanding of fashion, color, lifestyle, and commercial product.
- Experience contributing to seasonal product or collection development.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
- Experience preparing production-ready artwork and technical design files.
- Understanding of knit, embroidery, appliqué, screen-printing, and other apparel production techniques.
- Experience with licensed, collegiate, wholesale, hospitality, sporting, or custom-branded product is preferred.
- Experience leading or mentoring a junior designer.
- Strong organizational, communication, presentation, and project-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and revisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to take a project from concept through final production.
Success in This Role Looks Like
- Seasonal and custom collections feel cohesive, distinctive, and commercially relevant.
- The role brings a recognizable creative point of view to product and brand development.
- Custom artwork is original, elevated, accurate, and appropriate for each account.
- Projects move efficiently from concept through approval and production.
- The junior designer receives clear direction and meaningful professional development.
- Ellsworth + Ivey maintains a consistent and evolving visual identity across all business channels.
How to Apply
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