Junior Print Designer – H&M Young Boys (8-14 yrs)

Company Description
The H&M Head Office is based in Stockholm, Sweden, where we design and develop our fashion collections for a wide variety of customers. H&M is a dynamic international workplace where high pace and rapid changes are a natural part of our day. Good communication skills, a flexible attitude and capacity to adapt to changes are essential


Job Description
Are you a Junior Print Designer who has a great passion for the Boys customer? Do you enjoy working in high tempo and with different types of products daily? Then this might be the role for you!
As a Junior Print Designer at the Young Boys department, you will work with prints & graphics for a wide range of product types for our customer. Influenced by street wear and street sportswear, we mostly work with jersey but also some woven products. The age group is 8-14 years, but main target customer is around 11 years of age. You will be working closely with the responsible print designer to develop prints for our collection in all markets. We strongly value a genuine interest and understanding of the H&M Young Boys print handwriting which is of highest importance for the commercial success of the product range. It’s a creative and international work environment!


Qualifications
We are looking for someone with a true love and passion for the Boys customer and products, and who is positive, energetic, creative, and playful with a great eye for upcoming boys fashion print trends. On our Young Boys concept, license prints are important elements in the collection, and you will be an important player in the team to update his favourite license characters’ prints, and also to provide him with what is new. We think this is the role for you who are flexible and love working with prints for different products daily. You can handle many parallel tasks simultaneously. As a key fast-moving area, you will need to have your finger on the pulse within social media influences and picking up on those key micro trends. It will be key to be tuned into what the latest print & graphic trends that this customer aspires to! The candidate we look for has the ambition to develop further within our dept and company
In addition to this, we believe you:
Work as a junior print/graphic designer today within Men’s or Boyswear
Have strong skills in graphics, fonts, drawing and illustration
Can create a variety of print styles for various looks and themes
Have good knowledge and experience of different print techniques/ textile designing
High tempo in Photoshop and Illustrator
3D CLO work experience is strongly meriting
Are customer focused and understand the Young Boys target group
Are a driven team player as well as can take own initiatives and work independently
Are fluent in English (Swedish not necessary)



Additional Information
Does this sound like your next challenge?
For all external applicants please submit your application with CV and print portfolio pdf (max 10mb/uploading), with relevant work, including vision/mood boards, full print design process and final print collections and products from a variety of fashion design projects. All documents should be in English. Please ensure to include some print work clearly relatable to H&M Young Boys target customer. All external applications must include portfolio and meet the above criteria to be considered by 10th October. This is a permanent fulltime role in our head office in Stockholm, starting as soon as possible. Please do not include cover letter since we work hard to mitigate any bias assessment. (If you are an internal candidate, remember to start a conversation with your current line manager before applying).
H&M is committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability, or age.
We look forward to hearing from you!