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About the Role

Garan is seeking an experienced Children’s Apparel Graphic Art Manager to lead and elevate graphic art development across our children’s apparel business. This role requires a creative leader with deep experience in kids’ apparel graphics, combining strong creative judgment and art direction with hands-on knowledge of apparel graphic production. You will also identify new opportunities that expand creative possibilities and help Art teams work smarter and faster.

Responsibilities

Lead and elevate graphic art development for children’s apparel, delivering original, age-right, brand-right, and customer-relevant creative.
Translate trends across kids’ fashion, retail, culture, entertainment, color, and graphic design into commercially relevant graphic concepts.
Provide creative direction across illustration, typography, color, print, placement, pattern, and embellishment.
Coach and develop graphic artists, raising the quality, originality, and consistency of the work.
Identify new aesthetics, techniques, materials, and graphic applications that can differentiate our product.
Balance creative ambition with customer needs, retail positioning, cost, scalability, and manufacturability.
Guide artwork from creative concept through production artwork and factory execution.
Ensure artwork, specifications, files, color information, and production documentation are accurate and production-ready.
Apply strong knowledge of apparel graphic techniques including screen printing, digital printing, heat transfer, embroidery, appliqué, specialty inks, and embellishments.
Partner with Product Development, Technical Design, Sourcing, vendors, and Global teams to ensure creative concepts can be manufactured successfully while protecting creative intent.
Improve standards and processes that reduce revisions, increase consistency, and strengthen final product execution.
Stay connected to emerging trends in children’s apparel, graphic design, culture, retail, technology, and consumer behavior.
Experiment with generative AI and emerging creative tools for research, ideation, graphic exploration, visualization, and productivity.
Identify opportunities to improve creative workflows, eliminate repetitive work, and accelerate graphic development.
Help establish practical tools, templates, standards, and best practices that make the Art organization more creative, agile, and effective.
Partner across functions to introduce new creative capabilities, technologies, and ways of working.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in children’s apparel graphics, apparel graphic design, apparel art, or a closely related fashion/apparel creative field.
Significant experience creating or leading graphics for children’s apparel.
A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in apparel graphics, illustration, typography, print, color, placement, and graphic storytelling.
Experience managing, mentoring, or providing creative direction to graphic artists and designers.
Strong understanding of apparel graphic development from concept through production artwork and manufacturing.
Knowledge of apparel printing, embellishment, production requirements, and factory execution.
Strong awareness of kids’ fashion, retail, cultural trends, and emerging graphic aesthetics.
Advanced proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Curiosity and practical experience with generative AI, creative technology, workflow innovation, or process improvement.
Strong communication, collaboration, organization, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Experience with PLM or digital asset management systems is a plus.

Skills

Children’s Apparel
Kids Apparel
Childrenswear
Apparel Graphics
Graphic Art
Apparel Graphic Design
Art Direction
Graphics Manager
Art Manager
Illustration
Print Design
Production Artwork
Screen Printing
Embellishment
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Trend Research
Generative AI
Creative Technology
Creative Operations

Experience Level

8+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

$130,000 - $150,000

About the Company

Garan is seeking an experienced Children’s Apparel Graphic Art Manager to lead and elevate graphic art development across our children’s apparel business.