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About the Role

The Technical Design Manager owns fit, fit consistency, construction, and technical execution across all HATCH apparel categories, ensuring products meet our standards for design intent, quality, customer experience, and manufacturability. This role is accountable for the fit outcome, establishing and maintaining fit, construction, and technical standards, and identifying and resolving systemic issues. For baby and children's product, a strong understanding of applicable product safety requirements and standards is essential.

Responsibilities

Own fit consistency across categories, seasons, and factories.
Develop, document, and maintain core blocks, measurement standards, grade rules, and construction standards.
Conduct an annual fit and block calibration to ensure standards remain relevant and consistent.
Benchmark fit and measurements against relevant industry, competitive, and aspirational brands to identify opportunities for improvement.
Ensure vendors and factories understand and consistently execute HATCH fit and technical standards.
Use customer feedback, reviews, returns data, and product performance to identify recurring fit, construction, or quality issues.
Conduct root-cause analysis and establish clear corrective actions with internal teams and suppliers.
Measure results to ensure solutions improve product performance and the customer experience.
Proactively identify systemic issues and drive solutions rather than addressing problems style by style.
Own technical accuracy from development through production, including tech packs, specifications, measurements, grading, construction details, fit comments, and sample approvals.
Troubleshoot fit, pattern, grading, construction, and production issues directly with factories and vendors.
Identify solutions that improve fit, quality, cost, speed, and manufacturability without compromising design intent.
Ensure technical information and approvals are accurate, complete, and delivered on time.
Partner closely with Design, Product Development, Production, Sourcing, Merchandising, Customer Experience, and external suppliers.
Serve as the technical authority on fit, construction, measurements, and grading.
Communicate issues clearly, recommend solutions, and drive decisions to resolution.
Leverage factory and vendor technical expertise where appropriate while maintaining ownership of HATCH standards and outcomes.
Manage and develop Assistant-level Technical Design support, delegating executional work appropriately while maintaining focus on business-critical priorities.
Effectively manage multiple seasons and competing priorities based on customer and business impact.
Anticipate risks and resolve issues before they impact timelines, quality, cost, or the customer.
Bring a proactive, solutions-oriented approach and continually improve technical processes and ways of working.

Requirements

10+ years of apparel technical design experience, including people management and team leadership.
Demonstrated expertise in fit, patternmaking, grading, specifications, garment construction, and manufacturing methods and processes.
Experience developing and maintaining blocks, fit standards, and grading standards across multiple apparel categories.
Strong understanding of fabric behavior and its impact on fit, construction, and product performance.
Proven ability to execute design intent while ensuring adherence to fit, grading, quality, and product safety standards, particularly for baby and children’s apparel.
Experience partnering directly with overseas factories and vendors to drive technical execution and resolve issues.
Strong analytical and root-cause problem-solving skills, with the ability to use customer feedback and product-performance data to drive improvements.
Strong communication, organization, and prioritization skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and external partners.

Skills

Fit
Fit consistency
Construction
Technical execution
Patternmaking
Grading
Specifications
Garment construction
Manufacturing methods and processes
Fabric behavior analysis
Root-cause problem-solving
Customer feedback analysis
Product performance data analysis
Communication
Organization
Prioritization
Team leadership

Experience Level

10+ years of apparel technical design experience
People management experience
Team leadership experience

Education Level

Associate degree or professional certification in Patternmaking, Apparel Manufacturing, Fashion Design, or a related field.

Benefits

Employee discount across our portfolio of brands: Janie and Jack and HATCH Studios.
Paid holidays
Flexible Time Off (unlimited vacation)
Generous Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contributions for individuals and families
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter benefits
Life insurance
Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
Employee Assistance Program with resources like financial and legal assistance, childcare and elderly care, emotional work/life counseling, health, and wellness resources, travel assistance.
Pet benefits
Tuition reimbursement

About the Company

At HATCH, we design for every stage of womanhood-before, during, and after pregnancy-offering effortless clothing essentials and clean beauty solutions that put women first.
What began as a modern answer to maternity style has grown into a full lifestyle brand.
Beyond our collections, HATCH is a trusted resource and community, offering thoughtful services, inspiring events, and Babe-our content platform created to inform, inspire, and connect mothers everywhere.