RIXO’s story began in the London living room of best friends Henrietta & Orlagh, born from their passion for vintage.

Our philosophy is making all our customers feel the best version of themselves. Filling a gap in the market with feminine shapes and high-quality materials from everyday to Occasion wear. Always inclusive, always empowering, we create a fusion of original hand-painted prints and timeless silhouettes to flatter every woman, irrespective of age, season, size, nationality or time of day.

We are looking for a creative Senior Print Designer to join the team on a fixed-term 12 month contract. As Senior Print Designer you will be responsible for leading on innovative Print & Textile development for seasonal collections and wider range of artwork projects for smaller capsules throughout the year. 

You will be able to adapt to the RIXO handwriting and have an excellent sense of colour and hand painting skills. You will lead on innovating newness each season working closely with Creative Director and Co-Founder Orlagh McCloskey, whilst working with and managing a team of 2.

You will have experience and technical understanding of textile development including print, embroidery, embellishment & jacquard and know how to communicate multiple techniques to our suppliers for artwork launches and development swatches. You must have an excellent taste level and eye for vintage pattern and colour and demonstrate excellent hand drawing & painting skills.

Responsibilities.

• Develop exceptional, original hand painted artwork which is on brand and is in line with the Creative Directors vision.
• Able to translate, alter and develop bought vintage artwork to suit the RIXO Print aesthetic.
• Oversee end to end process for Print and Textiles team, ensuring the product is beautiful and in line with Director’s vision.
• Have excellent understanding of all Print & Textile techniques and how to communicate these with suppliers including print/embroidery/embellishment/woven & knit jacquards and yarn dye. Have an excellent eye for detail in Tech packs.
• Develop creative direction to implement with strong taste level and vintage interest for pattern. Pulling relevant tears to support the direction for Print and Textile design at the beginning of each season.
• Create and develop seasonal colour palettes and colourways in line with Creative Direction.
• Collaborating with cross function teams; Design, PD, Garment tech and Wholesale teams.
• You must be a clear communicator to ensure, alongside team that no problems arise in sampling/production for print and textiles packs. Making sure Print Team are meeting CP deadlines.
• Owning key dates for teams and ensuring collection milestone meetings and sign off meetings are on time to align to team calendar. Leading and delegating to team artwork split and preparing meeting boards.
• Adapting feedback from our wholesale team/partners each season to ensure artwork offering is moved on and has a strong balance of commerciality and newness for large wholesale drops.
• Managing a Print Designer and co-manage our Design & Print Assistant. Having regular check ins with team, and being organised with workload in busy periods.

About you

• Highly creative, passionate and experienced designer with an excellent eye for Vintage pattern and colour, with extremely high taste level in fashion & textiles.
• Ability to work with multiple mediums/techniques. Exceptional hand painting and drawing skills.
• Strong layout and ability to present varied composition ideas for artwork.
• Has strong understanding of fabrics and applications for surface design.
• Has proven experience working closely with suppliers.
• Has experience sending out variety of artwork tech packs.
• Proficient in Adobe photoshop, illustrator a plus.
• Strong team player who can collaborate with multiple teams to achieve the best results.
• Experience of working with PLM systems.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, detail oriented.
• Ability to work on multiple drops/projects at one time. Good time management.
• Self-starter, solution driven individual.