Avatar Expert with 3D and Product Design experience for Consulting Assig...

We are thrilled to announce this exciting role for our client (a global fashion company) within their Product Design & Asset Management Team - where you will be able to create excellent value by contributing your own innovative ideas. You will be working together with the teams that develop processes, methods, standards and tech tools to get the most value from the opportunities that comes with 3D and other digital product creation tech.

The assignment is full-time, based in Stockholm (20% hybrid possible) and for a period of 1 year, starting 2023-09-04.

About the role:

Product Creation is one of five value streams in the central function Product Offer, Development & Support (POD&S). This is a key function that enables the client to create desirable products their customers love, combining fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way. The function is a center of excellence for product creation and assortment planning, driving business development, using forward-leaning work methods and tools, as well as tech development, change and innovation.

You would be joining the Product Design & Asset Management (PDAM) teams within the value stream. Our mission is to simplify, optimize, and bring creativity to the design and fit processes. We are dedicated to developing capabilities and assets that enable future-ready digital product creation, enabling us to deliver products that our customers love.

Your focus will be on the 3D Avatar development process, oversee and drive the work of developing avatars for design, fit & beyond. You will work closely with the Body Owner and Body responsible representatives, Business units, POD&S Product teams and other stakeholders. You will work with others to identify, explore and research different solutions around Avatar development.

About you:

We think you are a connector and collaborator who can build trust and relationships with energy and drive. You are solution-focused, willing to get hands-on solving any problems needed to make the team move forward. You have a deep understanding of avatar creation, the business problems surrounding this and how to transfer them into logical solutions. Furthermore, you are detail-oriented yet able to see the long-term vision.

Key responsibilities will be:

- Create avatars in tight cooperation with the business.
- Develop Avatar & fit standards.
- Build Avatar pipelines to efficiently produce avatars at scale.
- Central Avatar contact within the business (both here and now and future).
- Connect & communicate with stakeholders to secure the needs and be updated prioritizations from the Business.
- Incorporate feedback on technical & fit related requirements from stakeholders into avatar development.

Qualifications required:

- Holistic understanding of the avatar creation process in a fashion context and the fashion development process in general.
- Exceptional understanding of form, anatomy, and silhouette in regard to 3D sculpting.
- Proficient in 3D Modelling, Sculpting, Retopology, Rigging and Character Animation (3+ years).
- Experienced in Processing 2D & 3D Size Data, Virtual Fit, working with mocap data - Asset texturing, PBR texturing, Next generation asset creation pipelines
- Profound understanding in Pattern Making & Grading.
- Proficient in English
- Required cloud certification: Cloud fundamentals

About the assignment

For this assignment you will be hired as a full-time consultant by Digitalenta. We offer our consultants a generous package including healthcare allowance, insurance policy, paid vacation days and pension savings. In addition, you'll also have a dedicated consultant manager available throughout your employment with us, in addition to optional networking activities with our network of consultants.

The assignment is full-time, based in Stockholm (20% hybrid possible) and for a period of 1 year, starting 2023-09-04.