Anthropologie Home Temporary Senior Designer Concept Designer

We are seeking a Temp Senior Designer, Color Concept with a strong point of view. In this role, you will translate seasonal fashion trends into distinctive color stories across Anthropologie apparel brands, building focused palettes that support all categories with clarity and cohesion. You will partner closely with the Concept team to align color direction and ensure consistency from early trend research through concept development, bringing a refined creative vision to color.

Attributes

• Motivation: Drives work forward with autonomy and takes responsibility for outcomes. Models accountability and expands creative contribution.
• Adaptability: Navigates feedback with confidence and supports others through change.
• Attention to Detail: Upholds high standards and models precision across projects.
• Problem Solving: Solves creatively and strategically, often independently.
• Time Management: Owns seasonal timelines within scope.
• Communication: Shares POV confidently, influences partners, and contributes to seasonal creative direction.
• Collaboration: Advocates for thoughtful, brand-right creative execution.

Color Concept Design

• Trend Fluency: Demonstrates strong awareness of fashion, art, and cultural shifts, translating insight into brand-right color direction aligned with seasonal needs.
• Concept: Partners early in concept development, using trend research to help define mood, tone, and palette direction, translating concepts into clear, actionable color strategies across product.
• Color Development: Develops focused seasonal palettes, including hero colors and supporting combinations, elevating clarity and cohesion across brands while building and refining color to ensure consistency and differentiation from concept through final product.
• Assortment & Brand Strategy: Creates balanced and intentional color assortments, driving cohesion, contrast, and range across seasonal needs and strengthening differentiation across brand identities.
• Tools & Communication: Prepares and manages color tools (palettes, guides, recaps) for seasonal milestones with accuracy, clearly communicating intent to support cross-functional alignment.
• Color Consistency & Standards: Upholds color standards across development, ensuring consistency from concept through execution, including alignment to Pantone systems and production requirements.
• Presentation & Design Voice: Presents color direction with clarity and confidence, articulating creative intent and influencing cross-functional partners through a strong, refined point of view.

Partnerships

• Manager: Aligns on seasonal direction and priorities. Owns communication and ensures follow-through across deliverables.
• Team: Fosters collaboration and accountability. Models high standards and reinforces shared expectations.
• Design: Ensures alignment, clarifies intent, resolves gaps, and protects creativity.
• Cross-Functional: Influences alignment by representing design perspective clearly and driving toward shared outcomes.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Industry Experience: 9+ years relevant industry experience, ideally within fashion or lifestyle design.
• Creative & Product Insight: Understands how creative decisions impact product, brand expression, and commercial outcomes.
• Technical Mastery: Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and production-ready file standards. Confident operating within shared digital systems and cross-functional workflows.
• Color Expertise: Fluent in Pantone systems across creative and production settings.
• AI Application: Uses AI to enhance ideation, visual storytelling, and presentations while maintaining strong creative authorship and brand alignment.

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