Company Description

We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting-edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.

We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work.  We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.  

Job Description

THE ROLE

As an Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Senior Designer on ASOS DESIGN, working on ALL THINGS DENIM, supporting to design multi product, creating head to toe ranges in denim, candidate has an opportunity to thrive with a high energy team, there is a lot of opportunity to grow a sort after skill set and learn about laundry processes. The role is on a very exciting department, we are looking for someone who loves fashion and has an endless enthusiasm for delivering new ideas! We need someone who wants to be part of a fast-paced fashion forward design team this could be the opportunity for you.

THE TEAM

ASOS is one of the UK’s top fashion and beauty destinations, expanding globally at a rapid pace. Our values are to be authentic, brave, and creative, and we live and breathe these in everything we do.

The Design Team look for inspiration all around the world, along with street style, vintage shopping, music, art, the catwalk and all things creative, to design the latest product for the range. It’s all about newness and finding and designing the most exciting product for our 20-something customer, whatever their style.

You’ll be…

• Researching, developing, and designing ranges for ASOS DESIGN DENIM, it’s a fantastic opportunity working across multi product, including identifying key leg shapes for the season, as well as outwear shapes, skirts, tops, jumpsuits, dresses and shorts, researching key washes for the season ahead of time and predicting the newest colours, sourcing fabric and building a range which offers choice for our global customer base.
• Reacting to sales information and design commercially relevant fashion forward ranges.
• Researching current and future trends by a collection of different sources to identify newness and interpret into first to market pieces.
• Working with the technical team on initial fits. Identifying and helping problem solve for the department.
• Building relations with suppliers and advising factories on direction, construction, key details, materials, and trims.
• Adhering to the critical path to achieve deadlines, ensuring product is developed for the relevant and optimum selling period.
• An ability to research and develop unique product working on long lead time product as well as quick reaction short lead ranges.

Qualifications

Who We’d Like to Meet...

• Previous experience in designing for an Aspirational Brand or similar High Street Retailer.
• Previous experience of working with Far East, European and UK suppliers
• Experience in working with a Buyer to plan and deliver a balanced range and first to market pieces
• Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Brand and Customer
• Computer Skills: Photoshop, Adobe, CAD
• Experience with executing tech packs and sketches for developments via supplier
• A fashion forward perspective
• Strong time management
• The confidence to identify problems and makes improvement suggestions, seeking practical ways to overcome barriers and remaining calm under pressure
• The ability to communicate to the team & senior management the performance and strategy of the department
• Willingness to travel in the UK and Internationally as required, for supplier meetings and inspiration / development trips

Additional Information

What’s in it for you?

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
• Employee sample sales
• Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day
• Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
• Private medical care scheme
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits

Our Commitments

We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how’re we doing it?
 
We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too. 

We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people, find out more here.  

How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an assessment or you have requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process - just let us know by email or phone, whatever works best for you. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to. 

If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.