Associate Color Developer

Company Description

Vuori is re-defining what athletic apparel looks like: built to move and sweat in but designed with a casual aesthetic to transition into everyday life. We draw inspiration from an active coastal California lifestyle; an integration of fitness, creative expression and life. Our high energy fast paced retail environment is reflected in the clothes we make. We aim to inspire others to take on all aspects of their lives with clarity, enthusiasm and purpose…while having a lot of fun along the way. We are proud to be an outlet for opportunity and for personal growth and success.

Job Description

As the Associate Color Developer, your color expertise, technical eye, and passion for innovative color solutions will help bring Vuori Designs to life. You will support the development, evaluation, and commercialization of seasonal color across performance and lifestyle fabrics, ensuring each color execution aligns with the brand aesthetic while meeting quality, and testing expectations.

We are seeking a highly organized and technically skilled Associate Color Developer to support pre-season color feasibility, lab dip evaluation, and color fastness testing. You will partner closely with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, Production, and suppliers to ensure seasonal colors are accurately developed, evaluated, approved, and tested on time for each season.

You are the link between design vision and color execution. It is essential that all communication is accurate, complete, timely, and professional.

What you'll get to do:

- Drive the development and approval of seasonal-colored materials for your categories, ensuring accuracy, quality, and alignment with brand standards. 
- Provide technical color expertise when evaluating seasonal color and fabric combinations  
- Maintain and organize physical and digital lab dip libraries 
- Track color approval status across multiple seasons and categories, proactively communicating risks, delays, color fastness concerns, or shade execution issues. 
- Maintain accurate records in PLM systems, including color comments, approvals, colorfastness results, and ETAs 
- Participate in cross-functional meetings, document color-related action items, and drive follow-up with internal and external partners.

Qualifications

Who you are:

- Bachelor's degree in Textile Science, Material Development, Product Development, or equivalent years of experience preferred.  
- 3+ years of color development 
- Superior score on the Munsell Hue Test 
- Knowledge of dyes and dyeing techniques for varied fiber contents and fabric structures 
- Knowledge of industry color fastness testing standards 
- Understanding of visual and instrumental color evaluation procedures with accurate and consistent technique: ability to use light box 
- Strong understanding of textile construction, performance attributes, dyeing, finishing, and fabric commercialization processes.  
- Experience working in PLM systems; familiarity with Centric PLM is a plus.  
- Strong communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally with internal teams and overseas mills and suppliers.  
- Passion for innovation and sustainability within the apparel industry.  
- Effective organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple seasons, projects, and priorities simultaneously.  
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong attention to detail and follow-through.  
- You empower yourself to approach life and work with positivity, purpose, and intention while keeping it light and having fun along the way.  
- International travel experience is a plus; occasional international travel may be required.  
- Bend, lift, open and move product and related office items vary in weight up to 25lbs, depending on need.

Additional Information

Our investment in you:

At Vuori, we’re proud to offer the following to our employees:

- Health Insurance 
- Savings and Retirement Plan  
- Employee Assistance Program 
- Generous Vuori Discount & Industry Perks 
- Paid Time Off  
- Wellness & Fitness benefits

The salary range for this role is $75,000 per year - $96,000 per year.

Vuori is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.