Hot Topic

Designer

• Helps design team create sketches and design intent pages for tech packs, preparing spec sheets with detailed technical information, maintain design records and creates line sheets for cross-functional teams
• Responsible for conceptualizing, developing, and creating apparel for Men’s, Juniors, Plus size and Children’s- Denim experience is a plus
• Develop and assist team with presenting trend / mood boards and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve alignment on projects
• Research and shop market for trend and inspiration, identifying new trends in fabric, trim, fit, and hardware pieces and other raw materials
• Work closely with buying, product development, art, product development and technical design team throughout the development process to ensure the highest level of quality and integrity
• Assists design team with following the product through its full development process – helps reviewing and approving design, lab dips, trim, fabric details, participating in fittings and providing fit comments to ensure proper fit and brand integrity
• Participate in the conceptual development of product license apparel lines, providing recommendations regarding seasonal themes, edits to line, and new concepts

Associate Apparel Designer

Brand Manager

• Support the planning and execution of marketing initiatives for Hot Topic’s Music business, ensuring alignment with established brand vision, customer experience, and growth priorities.
• Develop and execute integrated marketing plans for artists and music-related product launches, including albums, merchandise, content drops, and live or experiential activations.
• Contribute creative ideas and campaign concepts, applying powerful storytelling, strong positioning, and culturally relevant creative direction.
• Responsible for campaign measurement and collaboration with the brand team.
• Lead campaign execution, including kick-offs, timelines, and cross-functional workflows to ensure marketing deliverables are completed on time and at scale.
• Partner cross-functionally with Promotions, Social Media, Influencer Marketing, CRM, Digital Advertising, Creative, Merchandising, Ecommerce, Store Ops, and Licensing to execute integrated and compliant campaigns. Coordinate brand marketing integrations across consumer-facing digital platforms, social channels, and in-store experiences.
• Collaborate with external partners across labels, management teams, distributors, licensors, and talent agencies to support campaign execution and activations.
• Identify marketing opportunities and white space, and provide recommendations for external activations such as tour sponsorships, festival booths, and in-store events.
• Track and report on campaign performance, leveraging metrics and insights to provide optimization opportunities and inform ROI-focused decision-making.
• Share campaign, progress, results, and learnings with stakeholders and leadership to support continuous improvement.
• Regularly interface with artists, management, and music stakeholders to support alignment on commercial release plans, branding, and campaign execution.
• Collaborate with content and copy teams to ensure brand voice and messaging consistency across channels.

Brand Marketing Manager – Music

• Manage the technical product development process for a portion of, or an assigned product classification; working with Merchants, and Design Teams to establish the direction of the fit and garment details.
• Create grading specs and garment measurements; developing and/or correcting patterns when necessary.
• Track fit approval and sample process; organize fit samples received, including logging received samples and scheduling fitting; maintain Time & Action (T&A) sample log sheet.
• Create fit comments; note all design and specs discrepancies prior to fittings; review all fit samples against design package to ensure all specifications and design details are adhered to.
• Communicate daily with vendors, Merchants, Design, and Production teams for T&A and product execution.
• Ensure that all company fit standards are upheld.

Technical Designer

Recruitment

• Full cycle recruiting for high volume entry-level roles to career professional roles. This includes sourcing, pipeline generation and leveraging automation tools to efficiently screen through high volume of inbound applicants
• Partner with hiring managers to define job requirements and develop recruitment strategies.
• Provide guidance and support to hiring managers on recruitment best practices.
• Utilize recruitment metrics to analyze and improve processes.
• Stay informed about industry trends and best practices.
• Communicate with candidates throughout the recruitment process
• Leverage our recruiting tools (Lever, LinkedIn Recruiter) to effectively manage our hiring process while being mindful of data
• Take a creative approach to recruitment marketing and continually generate new ways of building pipeline
• Maintain accurate candidate records in our ATS, Lever
• Support the HR team in on-boarding new hires and other HR duties
• Under moderate supervision design, develop, and implement comprehensive training programs for employees at all levels.
• Conduct training needs assessments and create development plans to address skill gaps
• Facilitate engaging and interactive training sessions, workshops, and seminars.
• Monitor and evaluate training programs to ensure they meet business objectives and employee needs.
• Collaborate with department heads to identify and address specific training requirements.

Recruiter

Social Media Manager

• Help create and maintain the social media content calendar and track creative briefs for content and campaign assets.
• Work with Social Media Photographer, creative services, video production and merchants to help create exciting content for all social media channels.
• Schedule daily content on all social media channels.
• Responsible for portions of the social media weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting and tracking.
• Partner with copywriting and social media team to ensure all external communications and copy are on brand.
• Help coordinate and execute sweepstakes prizing and fulfillment.
• Help manage user-generated content; gain user approvals, approving and scheduling UGC.
• Stay up to date with influencers and content creators and partner with Influencer Specialist to activate content creators for owned content.

Associate Apparel Designer

Brand Marketing Manager – Music

Technical Designer

Recruiter

Social Media Content Specialist I