Overview
Schedule: 3 days per week or 4 shorter in-office days, with 1 day WFH
Reports to: Designer
About the role
SUBOO is hiring a detail-driven Product Development and Fit Technician to partner with the Designer from concept to customer. You will steer samples through clear, fast approvals while elevating make standards, engineering excellent fit, and ensuring on-time delivery.
What you will do
- Co-lead fit sessions with the Designer and fit model. Capture precise fit notes, translate into pattern corrections, update specs, and drive approvals across proto, SMS, PP, and TOP.
- Own tech packs end to end. Create graded measurement charts, tolerances, construction pages and BOMs,
- Refine blocks with pattern makers and factories. Solve construction challenges quickly while preserving design intent.
- Improve yield and cost through construction choices and finishing techniques that maintain quality.
- Manage the sample pipeline across proto, SMS, ecom, and lookbook. Ensure garments arrive shoot-ready and photo-perfect.
- Set and maintain quality checkpoints. Inline inspections, pre-shipment QC with transparent pass or rework criteria.
- Keep the critical path accurate. Flag risks early, close loops with vendors, and keep stakeholders aligned.
- Maintain a living library of blocks, trims, standards, testing results, and approved construction details.
- Feed improvement back into design. Analyse returns and defect data to lift make and reduce rework.
What you bring
- 4+ years in Product Development, Garment Tech, or Fit Tech within contemporary womenswear. Dresses and occasion expertise highly regarded.
- Expert eye for balance, drape, and proportion across sizes. Confident directing pattern and construction adjustments.
- Advanced knowledge of specs, grading logic, tolerances, seam allowances, finishing, and quality standards.
- Proven experience across wovens and stretch. Comfortable with delicate trims, boning, fusing, and specialty finishes.
- Strong vendor communication. Concise written comments and rapid follow-through.
- Tools: Adobe Illustrator for callouts, Excel for specs, PLM or Airtable-style workflows for version control.
- Good to have: CIN7, Shopify, Asana familiarity.
How we work
- Design-led, collaborative environment with small collections.
- Efficient sample turns and high standards.
- Flexible part-time structure. Three full days or four shorter in-office days with one day WFH.
Success looks like
- Higher first-round fit approvals across the season.
- On-time sample and PP approvals against the critical path.
- Fewer quality-related returns and remakes.
- Tech packs that vendors can execute easily.
Salary and start
Competitive part-time package based on experience. Immediate start preferred.
Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Management and Manufacturing
Industries
- Retail Apparel and Fashion
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📌 Fashion - Product Development & Fit Technician (Part-time)
🏢 SUBOO
📍 City of Sydney