Aéropostale

Designer

• Collaborate with Design and Pre-Production teams with guidance from Sr. TD or manager to determine fit and aesthetics.
• Complete product packages in PLM software, including measurements, construction details and technical sketches.
• Establish and maintain fit and construction standards to ensure brand consistency and quality.
• Review with the Sr. TD or manager fit history when presenting current fit and recommend alternative methods of construction or options for components when necessary.
• Prepare and actively participate in fit sessions.
• Resolve and communicate fit and construction issues to International Buying Offices and factories within the development and production timelines.
• Daily communication and follow through with IBO, vendors, and all cross-functional partners.

Associate Technical Designer

Manager

• Use statistical information and market knowledge to create action plans and achieve financial, customer-service and operational goals, while addressing the store unique strengths and challenges.
• Understand and demonstrate product knowledge, selling and operational skills to maximize sales.
• Engage with customers to build relationships and brand loyalty by using company tools.
• Attract, develop, and retain top talent individuals.
• Motivate and engage your teams by identifying their strengths.
• Provide and receive feedback to improve performance and develop team members.
• Communicate clear expectations and hold the store team and yourself accountable to achieving results.
• Ensure store standards for merchandising and operations are met consistently.
• Oversee all controllable expenses such as payroll and training to increase profitability.
• Establish trust with the team in the face of opposing beliefs, values or perspectives.
• Remain composed in the face of challenges and unforeseen circumstances.
• Provide leadership or assistance with floor sets, window changes, and other merchandising and visual expectations.
• Perform POS transactions on designated shifts and execute management functions in the absence of Assistant Manager.
• Schedule employees to their strengths to maximize productivity.
• Model our values of respect, integrity, teamwork, compassion, accountability, and inclusivity.

Store Manager

• Lead the creative exploration and execution of graphic design concepts within assigned apparel categories
• Design original, trend-right artwork that aligns with seasonal direction and brand aesthetics
• Develop unique typographic treatments, illustrations, and layout solutions for apparel applications
• Own the graphic direction for assigned product categories while partnering with the Design team
• Research and interpret design trends using social media platforms, market analysis, and historical data
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in Design, Merchandising, and Production
• Prepare and present trend and inspiration boards to communicate seasonal design vision
• Maintain organized digital design libraries and reference materials
• Own the adaptation and final production of approved artwork for assigned categories
• Present design concepts and seasonal assortments to senior leadership

Graphic Designer

• Use statistical information and market knowledge to create action plans and achieve financial, customer-service and operational goals, while addressing the store unique strengths and challenges
• Understand and demonstrate product knowledge, selling and operational skills to maximize sales
• Engage with customers to build relationships and brand loyalty by using company tools
• Attract, develop, and retain top talent individuals
• Motivate and engage your teams by identifying their strengths
• Provide and receive feedback to improve performance and develop team members
• Communicate clear expectations and hold the store team and yourself accountable to achieving results
• Ensure store standards for merchandising and operations are met consistently
• Oversee all controllable expenses such as payroll and training to increase profitability
• Establish trust with the team in the face of opposing beliefs, values or perspectives
• Remain composed in the face of challenges and unforeseen circumstances
• Provide leadership or assistance with floor sets, window changes, and other merchandising and visual expectations
• Perform POS transactions on designated shifts and execute management functions in the absence of Assistant Manager
• Schedule employees to their strengths to maximize productivity
• Model our values of respect, integrity, teamwork, compassion, accountability, and inclusivity.

• Use statistical information and market knowledge to create action plans and achieve financial, customer-service and operational goals, while addressing the store unique strengths and challenges.
• Understand and demonstrate product knowledge, selling and operational skills to maximize sales.
• Engage with customers to build relationships and brand loyalty by using company tools.
• Attract, develop, and retain top talent individuals.
• Motivate and engage your teams by identifying their strengths.
• Provide and receive feedback to improve performance and develop team members.
• Communicate clear expectations and hold the store team and yourself accountable to achieving results.
• Ensure store standards for merchandising and operations are met consistently.
• Oversee all controllable expenses such as payroll and training to increase profitability.
• Establish trust with the team in the face of opposing beliefs, values or perspectives.
• Remain composed in the face of challenges and unforeseen circumstances.
• Provide leadership or assistance with floor sets, window changes, and other merchandising and visual expectations.
• Perform POS transactions on designated shifts and execute management functions in the absence of Assistant Manager. Schedule employees to their strengths to maximize productivity.
• Model our values of respect, integrity, teamwork, compassion, accountability, and inclusivity.

Product Manager

• Manage the end-to-end product development and sourcing lifecycle from concept to production.
• Own seasonal development milestones and manage the time and actional calendar to ensure on-time execution in both key business deadlines and bulk delivery.
• Partner closely with Design, Merchandising, Technical teams to bring product concepts to production-ready samples for seasonal presentations.
• Manage vendor allocation and cost negotiations to achieve IMU targets while maintaining product standards and brand expectations.
• Build and maintain strong vendor relationships and support onboarding of new vendors to strengthen sourcing capabilities.
• Partner with Demand Planning to review seasonal projections and align vendor capacity planning, ensuring key suppliers and product categories are planned appropriately to support future order demand.
• Monitor vendor performance across cost, quality, and delivery metrics and proactively address issues to ensure successful seasonal execution.
• Manage samples, approvals, development, and order placements using key tools and systems (FlexPLM, CAP, and other tools).
• Monitor vendor performance across cost, quality, and delivery metrics and proactively address issues to ensure successful sourcing strategies.
• Maintain knowledge of apparel manufacturing processes from raw material development through factory production, including fabric mills, factory production flow, and quality control checkpoints.
• Communicate development status, risks, and solutions clearly across cross-functional partners and external vendors.
• Travel as needed to vendor offices and factories to support development alignment, production readiness, and vendor partnership initiatives.
• Familiarity with factory compliance standards, including social compliance and factory audit requirements, to ensure vendors meet company and industry standards is a big plus.

• Use statistical information and market knowledge to create action plans and achieve financial, customer-service and operational goals, while addressing the store unique strengths and challenges.
• Understand and demonstrate product knowledge, selling and operational skills to maximize sales.
• Engage with customers to build relationships and brand loyalty by using company tools.
• Attract, develop, and retain top talent individuals.
• Motivate and engage your teams by identifying their strengths.
• Provide and receive feedback to improve performance and develop team members.
• Communicate clear expectations and hold the store team and yourself accountable to achieving results.
• Ensure store standards for merchandising and operations are met consistently.
• Oversee all controllable expenses such as payroll and training to increase profitability.
• Establish trust with the team in the face of opposing beliefs, values or perspectives.
• Remain composed in the face of challenges and unforeseen circumstances
• Provide leadership or assistance with floor sets, window changes, and other merchandising and visual expectations.
• Perform POS transactions on designated shifts and execute management functions in the absence of Assistant Manager. Schedule employees to their strengths to maximize productivity.
• Model our values of respect, integrity, teamwork, compassion, accountability, and inclusivity.

Marketing

• Assist the marketing team in the execution of in-store and external marketing efforts with a focus on local campaigns including updating mall marketing sites with current Aeropostale & Lucky Brand promotions.
• Assist in briefing in store and online advertising efforts consisting of emails, site updates, store collateral and more.
• Monitor and report on retail competitors.
• Assist on photo shoots activities (creating photo libraries, preparing shot documents, presentation boards, shot lists etc.).
• Provide research, maintenance, and support for assigned departmental projects and tasks as assigned.
• Participate and provide feedback in group meetings and discussions if applicable.
• Retrieve, unpack, process, and organize all visual samples for Aero and Lucky.
• Maintain stockroom organization and complete frequent merchandise purges.
• Maintain cleanliness and maintenance of mock stores.
• Fold, hang, and style merchandise.
• Prepare mock stores for all scheduled events and walk-through’s.
• Organize and place marketing elements as directed.
• Assist in creating and utilizing merchandise checklists.
• Assist visual team in creating seasonal floorset guides.
• Uphold all corporate visual, marketing and operational standards.
• Work directly with visual management to execute all assigned visual direction.

Marketing Intern

• Participate in cross-functional meetings and gain an understanding of the role of Design in the product lifecycle.
• Supports the design team during the product development process
• Identify the steps that Design goes through in order to design a line including trend research, concept development, sketching, detailing, and translating into samples.
• Learn more about the day to day tasks accomplished by an Assistant Designer including sketching, creating tech packs and line sheets, communicating with the cross functional team, and preparing for seasonal presentations.
• Provide research, maintenance, and support for assigned departmental projects and tasks as assigned.
• Support the design team in exploring and incorporating AI-assisted tools (e.g., ideation, prototyping, asset generation) into day-to-day design work
• Participate and provide feedback in group meetings and discussions if applicable.
• Assist with the preparations of meetings & presentations
• Provide administrative assistance, such as filing, record keeping, etc.
• Perform such other duties as directed by the supervisor.
• Participate in a filmed Summer Intern content series, including occasional on-camera moments that highlight the design process, team culture, and day-to-day life at Aéropostale.
• Collaborate with the Brand Marketing and Social teams on approved content ideas that showcase the intern experience.

Design Intern

Procurement

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing sourcing team, managing workload allocation and professional growth.
• Maintain business continuity by providing high-level coverage for Senior Product Manager/Product Manager duties during peak seasons or staffing gaps.
• Spearhead specialized sourcing and product development projects that align with enterprise-wide business priorities and drive continuous process improvement.
• Ensure organizational resilience through succession planning and scalable team structures.
• Orchestrate the full product lifecycle from initial concept through production execution in collaboration with Sales, Merchandising, Planning, and Design.
• Establish and enforce product development requirements and workflows for both internal teams and external vendors.
• Synchronize complex production calendars across diverse brands, channels, and categories (e.g., Club vs. Discounter cycles), ensuring tailored Time & Action for every program.
• Oversee sampling and counter-sourcing strategies, optimizing for Country of Origin (COO), vendor core competencies, and landed cost.
• Schedule in office and virtual appointments with new and existing vendors to build business relationships. Follow up on next steps after appointments on development and cost.
• Drive vendor and mill consolidation strategies, including COO risk management, performance recaps, and continuous improvement plans.
• Partner with Demand Planning to align vendor capabilities with seasonal product strategies and long-term capacity planning.
• Ensure adherence to retailer routing guides, labeling standards, ticketing, and EDI requirements; actively manage compliance performance to minimize chargebacks and penalties.
• Develop agile sourcing strategies to support reorder and chase programs, including greige goods positioning and quick-turn vendor capabilities.
• Partner with Sales and Merchandising pre-market to validate costing, capacity feasibility, and margin targets prior to account commitment.
• Lead proactive risk management across vendor portfolio, including country diversification, tariff mitigation, and contingency production planning.
• Direct all costing negotiations to drive competitive pricing and identify cost-saving opportunities that consistently meet or exceed margin targets.
• Strategically manage fabric counter-development; leverage existing approved mills from mainline collections to increase efficiency and speed-to-market.
• Maintain comprehensive historical records of fabric utilization to inform year-over-year material strategies.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance (QA) to proactively resolve factory-level issues, ensuring high product standards and minimizing future quality risks.
• Manage the bulk order lifecycle, monitoring raw material/trim deliveries and factory production to ensure on-time shipping and QA compliance.
• Lead the resolution of delivery delays by negotiating with vendors and international teams to minimize lead-time impact and presenting viable solutions to business stakeholders.

Wholesale Sourcing Director

Marketing Operations

• Own the end-to-end intake, prioritization, and workflow management for all marketing and creative initiatives.
• Serve as the operational lead for all work requiring creative resources, including PDPs, seasonal brand campaigns, video, photography, print, and special projects.
• Translate brand, marketing, and business objectives into clear scopes, briefs, timelines, and delivery plans.
• Balance competing priorities, capacity, and deadlines, making informed trade-offs to protect quality and delivery.
• Oversee planning and execution of 360 marketing initiatives from concept through delivery.
• Partner with Brand Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Merchandising, Digital, and Channel teams to align priorities and timelines.
• Provide operational leadership for campaign shoots, asset development, and production calendars.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and resourcing gaps early and drive solutions.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve marketing operations processes that increase efficiency, clarity, and speed-to-market.
• Own project management tools, documentation, and workflows supporting creative and marketing execution.
• Establish standards for briefs, approvals, timelines, feedback, and handoffs.
• Drive consistency and discipline across teams while remaining flexible to business needs.
• Act as the primary operational bridge between creative, marketing, product, merchandising, and channel teams.
• Set clear expectations and decision frameworks for stakeholders engaging creative resources.
• Facilitate alignment and accountability across cross-functional partners and external agencies.
• Own visibility into workload, capacity, timelines, and delivery performance across the creative organization.
• Provide regular updates to marketing and creative leadership on priorities, risks, and progress.
• Lead post-campaign and post-project retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.
• Lead, mentor, and develop project management and operations talent within the marketing organization.
• Foster a culture of ownership, clarity, collaboration, and high standards.

Manager, Integrated Marketing Operations

Director

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing sourcing team, managing workload allocation and professional growth.
• Provide high-level coverage for Senior Product Manager/Product Manager duties during peak seasons or staffing gaps.
• Spearhead specialized sourcing and product development projects that align with enterprise-wide business priorities and drive continuous process improvement.
• Orchestrate the full product lifecycle from initial concept through production execution in collaboration with Sales, Merchandising, Planning, and Design.
• Establish and enforce product development requirements and workflows for internal teams and external vendors.
• Synchronize complex production calendars across diverse brands, channels, and categories.
• Oversee sampling and counter-sourcing strategies, optimizing for Country of Origin (COO), vendor core competencies, and landed cost.
• Schedule in office and virtual appointments with vendors and manage business relationships.
• Drive vendor and mill consolidation strategies, including COO risk management and continuous improvement plans.
• Partner with Demand Planning to align vendor capabilities with product strategies and long-term capacity planning.
• Direct all costing negotiations to drive competitive pricing and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance (QA) to proactively resolve factory-level issues, ensuring high product standards.

Director of Production

Supply Chain

• Support end-to-end supply chain project initiatives by coordinating timelines, tracking milestones, and ensuring deliverables align with business objectives.
• Partner with cross-functional teams—including Logistics Operations, Transportation, Inventory Planning, IT, and Store Operations—to gather requirements and support project execution.
• Analyze operational processes and identify opportunities for optimization, efficiency improvements, and cost reduction across supply chain workflows.
• Support project managers with documentation including project plans, status updates, risk logs, and post-implementation reviews.
• Coordinate testing, validation, and rollout of new supply chain tools, systems, or processes.
• Use data and reporting tools to evaluate performance KPIs and recommend operational enhancements.
• Communicate project updates, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders at all levels to ensure clarity and alignment.
• Facilitate training and change management activities to ensure successful adoption of new supply chain processes.

Senior Specialist, Supply Chain Ops

• Create sketches of styles in development.
• Maintain logs for sample tracking and update CBS sheets
• Maintain seasonal collection boards and walls.
• Execute organized, accurate technical packages.
• Create and update flat technical sketches for design tech packs.
• Develop strong working relationships with cross functional team members (Merchandising, Production and Graphics) through communication and problem solving.
• Create and update seasonal assortment sheet.
• Maintain awareness of current selling information as well as market trends and conditions.
• Understand the basics of the production process as it relates to the classification.
• Maintain awareness of corporate calendar and help supervisor manage deadlines.
• Attend and participate in fit sessions.
• Take detailed notes and follow up as needed.
• Assist in day to day responsibilities including filing/organizing, copying and updating development packages.
• Assist in approving strike-offs, lab-dips and other development materials
• Shop the market on a regular basis for ideas and inspiration.
• Prepare presentation materials for weekly and milestone meetings; garment samples, line sheets, CBS sheets
• Research and identify trends that are relevant to the Brands customer.
• Create inspiration boards for seasonal trends
• Support design presentation prep for cross-functional and external meetings when needed
• Assist with color and fabric development (including tracking submits and approvals)
• Help maintain a seasonal competitive market matrix (silhouettes, trends, etc.)
• Keep digital assets organized and up-to-date across shared folders/PLM
• Support line planning in partnership with merchandising (especially for different channels like core/fashion/digital)
• Help track samples, manage incoming packages, and coordinate with production partners