Head of Product & Creative
south oceanBrooklyn, NY
$120,000APPLY NOW
Head of Product & Creative
south oceanBrooklyn, NY
3 days ago
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Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing (except Contractors)Cut and Sew Apparel ContractorsApparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing$120,000
APPLY NOWAbout the role
About South Ocean Co. South Ocean Co. is a new luxury menswear brand from Palm Beach. American resort sensibility, Italian and Japanese mills, 100% natural fibers, assembled in the USA. A six-style launch capsule is in development now; the first drop is spring 2027, with a Palm Beach store to follow. Founder-led and privately funded.
The role:
You own the product and the brand for year one: what we make, how it fits and gets built with our factories, and how it looks everywhere a customer meets it. Small team, so you make most of it with your own hands.
You will own:
- Design and development of the line: flats, tech packs, BOMs, fabric and trim sourcing with our Italian and Japanese mills
- Fit: running fittings and sample rounds through PP approval with our New York sample rooms
- Factory coordination: the weekly cadence with our domestic makers, cost sheets, POs, grading, size charts, bulk oversight
- Art direction of every shoot (campaign, lookbook, e-commerce), briefing freelance photographers and art directors
- Site design direction for our Shopify build, plus packaging, hangtags, labels, print collateral, and the store and pop-up environment
- Brand voice and copy; briefing and directing our social lead
- Applying and evolving the brand book we've already built: identity, palette, typography, pattern, pelican mark
- By March 2027 you will have:
- Taken the launch capsule from protos through PP approval and into bulk
- Directed the launch shoot in Palm BeachPut packaging into production and seen the site go live
- Shipped the first drop and the first campaign
- You 5+ years in menswear design and product development at a brand, with at least one collection taken from sketch to production and one launch or rebrand behind you
- Technical: you write tech packs, run fittings, and talk to pattern makers and sewing rooms in their language; Illustrator fluency, PLM or spreadsheets, your call
- You've worked with domestic sample rooms and factories, and with Italian mills
- Hands-on across the brand: you can design a page, build a deck, and direct a shoot, or brief someone who can
You've worked directly with a founder and like itBased in New York, where our fittings are, with regular time in Palm BeachNot a fit if you've only designed and handed off to a tech team, you need a team to execute, or you've only worked inside big-brand process.
Details
Full-time. New York, hybrid, with regular travel to Palm Beach.
Start: October 2026 Structure: 90-day contract, converting to full-time employee
Compensation: $120,000+ depending on location and experience
To apply Send a portfolio link that shows both: product you've developed (tech packs, fit, production) and brand work you've directed. Add 150 words on one brand you think gets product and visual world right together, and why. Résumé optional. Applications without both won't be reviewed. No agencies.
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$120,000
Experience level
Manager
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Occupation
Marketing Managers
Industry
Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing (except Contractors)
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