Summer 2024 Technical Design Internship with Victoria's Secret & Co.
Your Role
To provide a meaningful and holistic internship within our Technical Design team. This intern will provide support to entire Technical Design team in any capacity needed for day-to-day functions of the business.
Why You Belong Here
At Victoria’s Secret, we acknowledge your value. We recognize that every associate has something unique to add to our brand and business. We strive to recruit, retain, and advance diverse talent that reflects the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work. We foster a culture where everyone belongs because we know our business thrives most when we look for, listen to, and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We place the customer at the heart of everything we do. We dream big, embrace curiosity and creativity while always learning from our mistakes. We lead with integrity, trust, and respect to achieve the best outcomes as one team.
Your Impact
- Act as a positive, supportive, partner, fostering open communication in a cohesive team environment with all business partners, consistently demonstrating our shared values and competencies
- Own the organization of samples, closets, the check-in of samples and overall preparation for fit sessions
- Work closely to support Technical Design team as a whole, ensuring any business critical/hot topics are raised in a timely manner
- Respond quickly to change with a positive attitude and willingness to learn new ways to work and achieve objectives
- Support Technical Designer to evaluate fit and construction of proto samples ensuring clear direction of design aesthetic, fit intent and construction
- Attend and observe sessions on live model and communicate fit/construction corrections to vendors via written instruction, flat and on body measurements and digital images
- Track and manage workflow and ensure seasonal calendar deadlines are met
- Identify potential production, quality, and/or costing issues and provide recommendations and solutions
- Maintain knowledge of product development process from concept through production, including patternmaking, construction, costing, manufacturing, and materials
- Participate in design, technical and cross-functional meetings
- Participate and support new initiatives and projects.
Your Experience
- Pursuing a degree or equivalent
- Technical education in terms of classes taken in garment fit and construction
- Knowledge of Bra/Swim/ or apparel patternmaking, construction, fit and grading
- Experience using a product development technical specification program (PDM, PLM, Centric etc.)
- Experience using 3D software a bonus (Clo3D, Browzwear, etc.)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook etc.)
- Organizational skills, ability to multitask, excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Educational knowledge of factory, manufacturing techniques and machinery in terms of classes/ previous internships is a plus