Head of Tailoring
Location: DK, 84, Copenhagen Ø
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Textiles
Function: Product Management
Company profile: Son of a Tailor makes exclusive tailored T-shirts. They are the first in the world to build an online T-shirt tailoring flow and a supply chain. They have launched the most crowdfunded Scandinavian fashion campaign to date and have been very successful in their first offline shop.#URL_0eea3819518c4b24a93b1585824a25bac609ff92aa69365700484921211fe158# launched silently in April ’13 for people within the founder’s personal network. Soon Copenhagen bloggers heard of the newly started company and other lifestyle journalists quickly followed. To go International the company launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in May/June 2014 – it went on to become Kickstarters most successful Scandinavian fashion campaign to date. All orders have been executed on time and customer feedback has expressed excitement about concept, service and product. Furthermore, customer rate Son of a Tailor 9,2/10 on TrustPilot.
Description: Son of a Tailor seeks a Head of Tailoring to be a part of our small and fast growing start-up team. Son of Tailor is the first company in the world to make an online concept for made-to-measure T-shirts. T-shirts are our sole focus and our vision is to put care and craftsmanship into one of the most mass-produced items in the world. Our goal is to create The Perfect Tailor and as a part of that, the most sustainable T-shirt made to date.The concept is expanding and is receiving great recognition from customers and International media. Further, we have recently received a significant investment, which will allow us to focus on further growth.With our expansion, we are looking for a new team member to be responsible for developing our product – The Perfect Tailored T-shirt. As a part of our strategy, we want to build great in-house competences in T-shirt tailoring and pattern making.Our new Head of Tailoring, shall be able to create patterns for new customers, and play a key role in optimizing this process. Further, the person will become responsible for developing our line of T-shirts, which includes making own samples and instructions to our supplier. Finally, the person should expect to create and tailor T-shirts for a selected number of exclusive customers in Copenhagen, with the potential to open an offline T-shirt tailor shop.
Requirements: We expect our new Head of Tailoring to have the following competences/experience.Solid experience with pattern making in Gerber or another software similar to GerberExperience with creating patterns, cutting, and sewing in jersey/knitted fabrics and preferably also experience with male tailoringKnowledge about single jersey materials and preferably knowledge of sourcing hereofPreferably experience with working with sewing partners abroadInterest and experience with optimizing tailoring processesBe enthusiastic about creating The Perfect Tailored T-shirtBe keen on being a part of a start-up and creating an International successful companyThe applicant must speak and write English fluently (ideally also Danish) and be able to travel up to 3 days per month to visit suppliers.For further information please contact: Jess Fleischer, Founder and CEO, #EMAIL_146b6bd3201b713d1ed94c53be614948b2dca164dbdda9bc38deb1dfe0bab112#, +45 4268 0493To make an application please click “Apply for this job” below.
Benefits: The job is a full time position and the position will can be formed as normal employment, project employment or freelance depending on the candidate. Benefits include:Oportunity to form a young company and brandBe part of a high-growth company and teamPC, software and tailoring equipment will be provided as neededFree lunch, drinks, snacks ets :-)Salary and remuneration package according to capabilitiesOpportunity to get employee shares in the company according to performance shown
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