Fashion Designer

Crop Shop Boutique (CSB) is a fast-growing Australian e-commerce brand redefining athleisure since its launch in 2019 by Rachel Dillon. With a mission to empower women worldwide, CSB blends style, function, and confidence in every piece we create. Our team thrives on relentlessly raising the bar, being perfectly practical, and being unapologetically fearless.

About the Role

The Fashion Designer is responsible for designing and developing innovative, commercially successful products that align with the CSB brand and resonate with CSB’s global customer.

This role combines creativity, trend awareness, technical knowledge, and commercial understanding to develop products that are both fashion-forward and performance-driven. Working closely with Product Development, Production, Merchandising, Marketing, and Creative teams, the Fashion Designer translates brand strategy, customer insights, and market trends into compelling product ranges that support business growth and customer loyalty.

The Fashion Designer plays an important role within the Product team, contributing to the development of seasonal and capsule collections and ensuring consistency, quality, and strong design execution across assigned categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop seasonal and capsule collections across assigned categories
• Create innovative, brand-aligned products that balance trend relevance, functionality, and commercial viability
• Translate market insights, customer feedback, and brand strategy into compelling product concepts
• Develop design concepts, mood boards, colour palettes, prints, graphics, silhouettes, and collection stories
• Ensure designs align with the CSB brand aesthetic, customer expectations, and commercial objectives
• Present design concepts and collections to relevant stakeholders
• Achievement of critical path deadlines
• Ensure quality and innovation of collections
• Monitor global fashion, activewear, lifestyle, and cultural trends to identify relevant opportunities and emerging trends relevant for the CSB customer
• Develop a strong understanding of customer preferences, behaviours, and evolving market demands
• Create design specifications, technical packs, and product documentation
• Review prototypes, samples, and fit sessions to ensure design intent is maintained
• Ensure products meet quality, fit, functionality, and performance standards
• Design products with an understanding of customer demand, assortment strategy, and business objectives
• Collaborate with Merchandising and Planning teams to identify product opportunities
• Contribute to category growth strategies and future product ranges
• Partner closely with Garment Technicians, Brand, Marketing, Merchandising, and eCommerce teams
• Support content and campaign teams by providing product storytelling and design rationale
• Collaborate on product launches, campaigns, retail activations, and go-to-market initiatives
• Communicate design concepts, updates, and requirements clearly across relevant teams
• Contribute positively to team culture and ways of working
• Effective communication and collaboration

About You

• Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Design, Apparel Design, Textile Design, or related discipline preferred
• Experience in fashion or activewear design
• Understanding of the CSB customer
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and CAD
• Strong technical drawing and specification development capability
• Good understanding of fabrics, garment construction, fit, grading, and manufacturing processes
• Experience developing technical packs and managing sample development
• Understanding of product lifecycle management systems preferred
• Strong understanding of global fashion, activewear, lifestyle and cultural markets
• Experience designing and developing commercially relevant products
• Strong creative and conceptual design skills
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of customer behaviour
• Clear communication and presentation skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
• Passion for fitness, activewear, fashion, and contemporary culture
• Strong creative taste and design instincts
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

Why Join CSB?

• Hybrid work model – balance of in-office & WFH
• Short Term Incentive Program
• Parental leave package for both parents
• State-of-the-art gym at CSB HQ
• Competitive staff discounts
• Be a part of our mission to empower women worldwide
• Exciting team events & initiatives

How to Apply

If you're ready to contribute to CSB’s mission and growth, we’d love to hear from you! Join in empowering women worldwide, CSB style. To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter via the job board only (direct applications via email or LinkedIn messages will not be accepted). For further information, please reach out to Dylan Anger at dylan@cropshopboutique.com.