& Other Stories is a fashion brand offering women a wide range of shoes, bags, accessories, beauty and ready-to-wear to create their personal style, or story. Our creative ateliers in Paris and Stockholm design diversified fashion collections with great attention to detail and quality. For us there’s no right or wrong when it comes to style, just possibilities and the joy of self-expression.

We are an inclusive workplace, driven by creativity, our values, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Fashion, fun and action are essential parts of our daily work. We believe in being spontaneous, personal, and flexible, which makes it easy to collaborate within all parts of the brand and sparks growth, for you and for us. At & Other Stories, we work in teams and lead by example, and we strive to create an open and safe environment for everyone. Each person working with & Other Stories is an essential part of our group of creatives and a valued individual within the company. 

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Product Designer to join our team in the Stockholm Atelier. You will have experience of working with different garment groups within RTW. We believe you have a high fashion sense, a strong feeling and intuition for trends balanced with a commercial eye. We also believe that you have a big passion for the feminine customer.

You encourage and contribute to the shared responsibility of creating and protecting an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone is allowed to self-identify.

Main responsibilities:

• Responsible for the department’s customer focus, always be updated what is happening in the surrounding world for your target customer
• Accountable for designing loved products and assortment (OMNI) for your department/s, always with the target customer in mind in order to maximize growth and profitability, short and long term
• Create the product visual goal, in line with Atelier goal and concept visual goal. Identify which products the customer wants to have next season
• Responsible for identifying types, silhouettes, materials, and details that follows the season's fashion trends
• Plan and create a well-coordinated product assortment with focus on loved products
• Responsible for designing loved products in tight collaboration with the buyer
• Secure that your products always have the best fit and design with the right timing
• Responsible for your department in all customer touch points/sales channels: Identify each channel potential and deliver on this
• Constantly follow the selling and act on new tendencies as well as search for the new commercial fashion
• Lead and develop a junior designer

We would love to meet someone who:

• Has a Fashion Design BA/MA with minimum 2 years of industry experience from Women’s RTW commercial fashion in a Senior Designer role
• Has experience and passion for style & product and driving new fashion
• Is visionary and driven by strong trend analysis to be able to predict what your customers will demand a year from now
• Excellent technical knowledge of how products are created and understands how fabrics, materials, trims, and patternmaking creates the best fit and design
• Strong aesthetic and experience of design connected to the customer description.
• Strong aesthetic sense of colours and prints
• Strategic mindset and experience to make commercial strategic decisions for the collection
• Experience to see the big picture and secure a well-coordinated product range
• Senior knowledge in relevant product categories.
• Is able to demonstrate well developed communication and collaboration skills
• Has a positive problem-solving attitude and is eager to find new ways
• Has leadership experience, is strong and secure in a leading role
• Strong skills in and used to working in Adobe Creative Suite programs
• 3D CLO is meriting
• Fluent and efficient communication in English (written and spoken)

You are guided by our values in all that you do, and together with your colleagues you are responsible for keeping the values alive and as a guide in your everyday work.

Does this sound like your next challenge?

We have two Temporary Product Designer Full-time roles based in our Stockholm  Head Office.

One role is for a 1-year temporary position to start in January 2024 

The other role is for a 6 - month temporary position starting in March 2024

Both roles will report to the Design Manager.

If you feel your experiences, skills, and ambitions are right for this roles, please apply with your CV in English and portfolio with relevant work showing design process and finished products from a variety of projects (max 10mb pdf ) by 15th January 2023

If you are already an employee within the H&M Group: Always remember to initiate a dialogue with your current manager when applying.

At H&M Group we strive to have a fair and inclusive recruitment process. Why kindly ask you to not attach cover letter in your application as they often contain information that could trigger unintentional biases.

We know that diversity is what makes us strong. Our teams should consist of great mix of people that share and combine their knowledge, experiences, and ideas. It leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, what we perceive possible and how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world.

We look forward to hearing from you!