Part-Time Design Assistant (Intimates, Swim, Active)

Location: New York City, Hybrid-Remote

Reports to: Designer

Time Commitment: Part-Time, up to 20 hours per week

Hourly Rate: $40-60 depending on experience

Nice to meet you!

Pepper is an innovative, fast-growing DTC intimate apparel brand created to celebrate small-chested women. Our iconic, solution-driven bras, swimwear, and apparel are thoughtfully designed to make every moment and outfit a confident and authentic expression of your best self. Pepper has been obsessed with uncompromising fit for small chests since 2017, with our 470% funded Kickstarter launch. Today, Pepper has grown into a global community of millions of women, united by the belief that women deserve to feel perfectly enough exactly as they are. We’re reshaping the conversation around fit, style, and confidence for small-chested bodies everywhere. Come join the movement!

What we’re proud of:

- Remote-first, flexible, and human: We’re a fully remote-first team that values autonomy, balance, and trust. Pepper is built for people who want to do their best work from wherever they thrive. Without sacrificing connection, collaboration, or career growth.
- Women-founded & Self-funded: As a women-owned company that never took traditional VC funding, we’ve scaled to eight-figure revenue through focus, creativity, and scrappiness. People come here to help rewrite what success looks like in DTC, and to build alongside a team that loves breaking the “rules” of how startups should grow.
- Mission-driven with real impact: Everything we do is rooted in empowering small-chested people to feel confident and celebrated. Our mission shapes our products, our culture, and our decisions, from inclusive design to responsible manufacturing and community giving. Joining Pepper means using your work to make the world a little more comfortable, confident, and kind.

This is where you come in.

Pepper is looking for a detail-oriented Design Assistant to support our intimates, swimwear, and activewear design team on a part-time basis. You'll turn approved designs into accurate, production-ready tech packs, keep our linesheets and BOMs current, and help build the material standards that will streamline development across our programs.

This role is ideal for someone who loves organization as much as creative design, understands garment construction (especially bras and intimates), and takes pride in making sure the team is always working from the most current information. You’ll be on the ground floor of a fast-paced DTC brand and get to work with a team of talented designers and tech designers making the most flattering product for small-chested women. You'll have visibility into how strategic assortment decisions are made, get to collaborate with Founders, and see the process from start-to-finish.

Tech Pack Setup

- Turn approved seasonal sketches into tech packs by creating style folders, assigning style numbers, and building protoforms
- Build BOMs for new styles as part of tech pack setup
- Ensure every tech pack is complete and accurate, and submit it to the Designer for review and approval before handoff to Tech Design

Linesheet Management

- Maintain linesheets for seasons in active development, including style drops, new styles, and design edits
- Recolor CADs as colorways and assortments are finalized
- Keep linesheets current with vendor updates
- Partner with the Designer, who owns concept and ideation for future seasons; you'll own editing, updating, and maintaining linesheets once a season moves into development

Material Management & Standardization

- Support the consolidation and organization of materials across vendorsBuild and maintain Material Cheat Sheets and Libraries organized by category
- Help reduce material duplication, improve consistency across styles, and ease order minimum challenges
- Provide research and organization to support the Designer and Product Development teams , who make final decisions on nominated components and vendor consolidation

BOM Management

- Update BOMs with material and trim changes coming out of fittings
- Keep BOMs accurate and aligned with tech packs and linesheets

PLM Support

- Help organize and enter styles, materials, BOMs, colors, and other product information into PLM systems
- Make sure the PLM is populated consistently and accurately

Fitting Support

- Attend in-person/virtual fittings and take live notes
- Update tech packs during or immediately after fittings with changes to construction, measurements, and design details
- Update protoforms with fit changes the same day, so the team is always working from current information

Requirements

- Lives in the NYC Tri-State area with the ability to join in-person fittings at our NYC office up to 1X/week max
- 2–3 years of experience in apparel design or product development, ideally in intimates
- Working knowledge of bra construction and components (elastics, hook and eyes, strap hardware, cups, etc.)
- Experience building and maintaining tech packs and BOMs
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator for CAD recoloring and linesheets, and strong Excel or Google Sheets skills
- Experience with a PLM system (e.g., Centric, Backbone, Gerber/Lectra) is a plus, especially during implementation
- Exceptional attention to detail and a strong sense of organization
- Ability to work quickly and accurately in a live setting, like taking notes and updating documents during fittings
- Clear communicator who's comfortable working independently and knowing when to escalate decisions

Pepper values.

- Curiosity 🤔: We’re relentless in our quest to understand the community we serve. We’re challengers who ask questions, pursue perspectives, and set the new standard.
- Resilience 🌊: We embrace the ups and the downs, learn from our mistakes, and courageously persevere to achieve our goals.
- Community 🤝: We champion each other the same way we champion our customer. We do big things together and are passionate about what we do, and how we do it.

Benefits

Diversity

Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Pepper's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), sexual orientation, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits discrimination based on a perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful. Pepper will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal history, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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