Senior Garment Technologist

Rise & Fall is one of the UK’s fastest growing startups, reshaping how people buy better. We offer exceptional clothing and homewares, made by the world’s best manufacturers, at prices that are 40–80% lower than traditional luxury.

We are the antithesis of fast fashion, committed to sustainability, quality, and conscious consumption. We’re a certified B Corp, use organic and natural materials wherever possible, and are proud to have donated over £30,000 last year to homelessness and women’s support charities.

We’ve shipped over 500,000 products, we have been on a rocketship trajectory and are hugely ambitious, with recent launches in the US and Australia. We’re on a mission to become one of the largest luxury goods retailers in the world in the next 10 years and significantly reshape the industry as we grow.

If you'd like to join us on this wild journey, then read on below and join our incredible team

About the role

This is a Senior level Garment Technologist role. You will be responsible for supporting the technical function, ensuring the technical integrity, fit, and quality of garments in multi-product categories, maintaining the brand's aesthetic, and driving continuous improvement in garment production processes.

We're a small team, which means the person in this role won't be one technologist among twenty. You'll work closely with our Head of Product Development and Technical Lead to own garment technology across the entire clothing offer — menswear and womenswear — from knitwear, jersey, wovens to leather, casual wear, formal wear to outwear.

This is a role for someone who wants the scope. We work as a team to achieve world class product, and efficiency whilst maintaining an eye for detail is essential. We’re looking for someone who enjoys problem solving, seeks to implement and improve process, and tells us what good looks like.

The type of person you are and your values are just as important to us as your skills and experience, as we are passionate about building an exceptional team of people who work well together.

What do those values look like?

• Customer obsessed
• High-performance
• Take the initiative
• Feedback is a gift
• Enjoy the Ride

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the fit and sealing process and owning responsibility for the execution of the final fit of all products as agreed with product teams.
• Technical Strategy & Vision: Fit and construction excellence for the products. Supporting the development of consistent fit blocks and size specifications alongside our Head of Technical, ensuring optimal fit, quality, comfort, and wearability that reflects the brand's aesthetic and thereby reduce return rates due to fit and quality to achieve company KPI
• Ensure that tech packs are updated with fit comments, specifications, and vendors are informed in line with the critical path requirement dates.
• We’re a small team, so owning the day-to-day admin of measuring samples, preparing for fit sessions and archiving protos is essential too.
• Join weekly team meetings to ensure critical path deadlines are on track, and business objectives are met, and to facilitate problem-solving and process optimization.
• Be the technical point of contact for our manufacturing partners, giving clear, actionable feedback that resolves issues rather than passing them on. Ensure digital technology is embraced (such as VC fit meetings, AI) and to evaluate and implement new digital technologies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the garment development process.
• Approve testing, care labels and trims, and sign off the technical documentation needed at seal, following RF manual and guideline and ensure products meet relevant safety, legal, and ethical compliance standards in target markets.
• Review and approve AQL inspection report, able to solve the issue and raise the concerns to the team

3 Reasons this role is exceptional:

• You will learn a lot and be given responsibility in your area. Working alongside brilliant people you will learn how a variety of functions inside a business work, because that's how great startups do it.
• The company has found product-market fit in a massive category.
• Our team and suppliers offer vast experience in the apparel and home categories, with regular opportunities to make industry contacts and increase your professional exposure.

About you:

• Solid garment technology experience across multiple product categories, from knitwear, jersey, wovens to leather. Casual wear, formal wear to outwear. We appreciate this is a big ask, but Rise & Fall is an ambitious team who hires problem solvers with a bias to action. If this is you, we invite you to apply!
• Genuine expertise in garment construction, pattern amendments, fit, and manufacturing processes, with a deep knowledge of advanced techniques and industry best practices.
• Strong fabric and raw materials knowledge — construction, performance and testing
• Confident leading fit sessions and influencing Design, Product Development and Buying with a technical point of view
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines; ability to prioritise and delegate tasks effectively.
• Experience managing suppliers, including resolving quality problems in line with critical path deadlines
• Make the most of our data: Analyse performance data, generate insights, and make data-driven decisions to continuously improve our fits and blocks
• You have a bias to action, when you see problems you’re driven to solve them
• You’re highly organised and enjoy building and following process
• You thrive with day to day variety, working across various ideas at once
• You're commercially minded — you know when a technical concern is worth holding product for and when it isn't
• You're comfortable in a small team where everyone is a leader
• A real eye for quality, and the enthusiasm about product to care when it isn't right

The Package:

• This is a full-time role, requiring at least 3 days per week in our West London studio. Two of these days must be Tuesdays and Wednesdays, when the wider product team is in and fit sessions run
• Salary will be market leading and set based on your experience
• Lovely, bright and spacious office near Portobello Road
• Work alongside a team of ambitious colleagues
• Pension plan: 3% from the employer & 5% from the employee
• Generous discount on all Rise & Fall product + free product each season
• Lots of fun! Great culture with regular team socials & events

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