E-Commerce Apparel Design Manager

About The Line Up:

The Line Up has been helping teams make lasting memories for over 35 years! As leaders in design forward custom apparel, our mission is to inspire joy, confidence, and connection within our Line Up family – both customers and team members. Our customers include studio, high school, and collegiate dance teams, NFL and NBA cheerleaders, synchronized skaters, and artistic athletes from all over the nation.

Based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, we design and manufacture our apparel right here at home. As a small and growing business, we take pride in supporting our family of clients and employees and attribute our success to developing strong, lasting relationships.

We believe that great business relationships are built on core values, and we live and hire by these:

• We Genuinely care - Each day we strive to do what's in the best interest of both our customers and coworkers.
• Continuous Improvement - We know great things can be achieved through curiosity, dedication, and forward-thinking problem solving.
• Willingness to help - We show up for each other with optimism and value our varied perspectives through teamwork and collaboration.
• We Respect the details - We know that quality is found in the care and attention to details.
• Passionate & Unique - We "get into it" and embrace the joy, creativity, and passion in life.
• Do the Right Thing - We earn trust by leading with honesty and good faith; we stand behind our word and our product.

Join our talented team and dive into the creative process from design and construction to customer delight!

We are designers. We are craftsmen. We are a small crew providing big possibilities.

About the Job:

The Line Up is seeking a driven and organized individual to manage our e-commerce product development team! In this position, you’ll be a driving force behind the product development of custom dance costumes that are sold on our e-commerce platform! You’ll road map project plans, advance your team of designers, and coordinate with the technical design and marketing teams to ensure new dance apparel launches successfully and performs well.

We’re looking for you: a skilled, creative, and trend-forward project manager to help drive and inspire our small product development team. You’re a self-motivated candidate that can understand strategy, turn it into concrete plans, and motivate your team to exceed expectations.

Do you crave a job where you can drive results? Do you have a passion for design and fashion? Do you want to work at a small, growing company alongside other creatives?  If so, we’d love to meet you!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Project management – Establish a product roadmap and manage product design calendar while holding team accountable to goals and deadlines.
• Product management – Manage full-cycle product development process: from market research, design, prototype, website listing, to retirement. Collaborate with technical design team to ensure quality of garment design and construction. Engage with merchandising team to review metrics and success/improvement opportunities with product design.
• Design strategy – Coordinate trend and market research efforts with team members to inform product designs. Collaborate with marketing and sales to align product design with marketing efforts and sales goals.
• Lead, Manage, Accountability - Manage department team members in planning and decision-making process, developing employees’ skills and encouraging growth. Seek to improve processes, products, and services.
• Metrics – Establish and meet weekly scorecard metrics, including design, prototype complete, and production-ready goals
• Additional duties as assigned by management.
• Supervisor responsibilities: Yes

About you:

• Planning/Organization – Able to prioritize and plan work activities to achieve department and company goals, use time and team members efficiently, plan for additional resources, and sets goals and objectives.
• Problem Solving- Exceptional ability to think creatively and innovatively within the confines of budget, target market focus, and production feasibility.
• Collaboration – Ability to build strong working relationships, collaborate, and lead the team to find creative solutions.
• Quality – Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, looks for ways to improve and promote quality, applies feedback to improve performance, monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Strategy and tactics- Can translate strategic plans to grow web sales and enhance product innovation into concrete actions.
• Software- A full and fluent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite. Experience with project management tools such as Asana or Miro, or design illustration software Adobe Illustrator are a plus but not required.
• Manage People– includes staff in planning and decision-making process, develops employees’ skills and encourages growth, inspires team members, and seeks to improve processes, products, and services.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in merchandising, or related experience in project management or apparel design.
• Three to Five years of management experience.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Additional Considerations:

• Wage is dependent on experience. $68,000-$75,000 annual salary
• Hybrid option available to work from home 2 days per week

 The Line Up provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $68,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

• Eden Prairie, MN 55344 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Eden Prairie, MN 55344: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Eden Prairie, MN 55344

Salary : $68,000 - $75,000