Fashion Designer in London

We are a design-forward fashion supply chain company out to reimagine how fashion brands buy product. We already design and make for some of the largest brands in fashion, from Inditex in Spain to Next in the UK. We are looking for a fashion designer who can turn a trend into a production-ready, reorder-winning collection at startup speed. This role rewards taste, drive, and ownership, not a polished CV. If you live to make and want your work in stores fast, read on. If you want a calm studio and a nine-to-five, this is not your role.

01 THE ROLE

• Design product that sells. Concept to production, at startup speed. You make what wins the reorder.
• Nitex is a design-forward fashion supply chain platform. We give brands fresh designs, no minimum order quantity, fast and compliant manufacturing, and real-time visibility into production.
• You work across more than one product category, which most designers never do. We expect you to learn fast and handle several, from jersey and wovens to dresses, taking each from concept to a made sample: trend and fabric research, ranges, tech packs, and the back-and-forth until the sample is right.
• Every design has to hit cost, feasibility, and lead-time targets. The styles you make are what brands pick at our Design Lab and what wins the reorder.

A - What you will actually do

• Design across more than one product category, and grow into new ones, from concept to production-ready.
• Research seasonal trends, fabrics, and techniques for the UK and European market.
• Translate client briefs into compelling, commercial, production-ready designs.
• Build tech packs and drive each design through our Dhaka product development and sample teams on fit, fabric, and cost.
• Design to cost, feasibility, and lead-time targets, and move fast.
• Work day to day in our internal platform, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop; AI tools like Nano Banana and Midjourney are a plus.

B - Why this role is hard, and why that is the point

• Design here is not a mood board. It is taste, production reality, and startup speed at once.
• Your work has to be beautiful, sell, cost right, and ship on time.
• Brands see it at our Design Lab and pick on the spot, so the bar is commercial, not only creative.
• Our team turns a concept into a sample in days, not months. We want a designer who is energised by that pace, not crushed by it.

WHAT WE MAKE

• Fresh designs all the time, no minimum order, samples in days. What you draw this week, a brand can touch and order the next.

02 WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We hire for the work and the wiring first. We look for a mid-level hand, and an exceptional junior who already ships is just as welcome.

A - The mindset, non-negotiable

• Steady under pressure. Tight timelines, fast revisions, constant back-and-forth with the Dhaka team to get a sample right.
• Hungry, and young at heart. You want to make a lot, learn fast, and see your work in stores.
• A maker who ships. You finish. You take a concept all the way to a production-ready, on-cost design.
• Commercial taste. You design what sells, to a price and a customer, not only what wins applause.
• Ownership, end to end. Every product carries the designer's name.
• Humble and coachable. You take hard feedback on your work and get better fast.

B - The kind of background that fits

• The label on your CV matters far less than what you have made.
• Most who fit have a few years shipping real product, and a young designer who has already done it is just as welcome.
• If your story looks like one of these, send your portfolio.

DO NOT APPLY IF

• You need a calm studio and plenty of time.
• You design for the applause, not for the customer who buys it.
• You lose interest after the sketch and hand off the fit, cost, and production.
• You take feedback on your work personally instead of using it to get better.
• You want a nine-to-five.
• You believe great design cannot be fast.

03 SUCCESS, REWARD, AND HOW TO APPLY

A - What success looks like

• First 30 days: You know our products, customers, and seasonal direction, and your first designs, aligned to brand DNA, are already in development.
• By month 3: You take a brief to a production-ready tech pack on your own, your samples progress with little rework.
• By month 5: You deliver commercially viable collections that win buyer orders, own your sampling end to end.

B - How you are paid

• A base matched to what you already earn, so you never take a cut to join us.
• As you prove yourself, your pay grows and you earn ownership in what you build through stock.

C - How to apply

• Do not send a CV alone. Send a link to your portfolio and short, specific answers to the four questions below.

A NOTE ON HOW WE HIRE

• Our process looks at the work, then the craft, then the mindset.
• We would rather hire a hungry designer with a coachable gap than a polished CV with a settled, slow mindset.