Assistant Designer – Apparel Group

Apparel Group is hiring an Assistant Designer to support its design team with a fresh, multitasking-ready perspective across its global fashion portfolio. Apparel Group operates as a major multi-brand fashion retailer across the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, and beyond, with a genuinely multicultural staff base, which means design work here touches a wide range of brand aesthetics and market considerations rather than a single narrow design direction.

Expect the role to involve supporting lead designers with concept development, sketching, and material research, helping translate design ideas into viable products while staying responsive to the fast pace multi-brand retail design demands. A readiness to multitask and a proactive approach are explicitly called out as essential, design work in this environment moves quickly across multiple projects and brands simultaneously rather than allowing deep, extended focus on a single collection.

Apparel Group’s scale across four continents and a large multicultural workforce gives this role genuine exposure to diverse design perspectives and market considerations. A strong candidate brings solid design fundamentals alongside the flexibility and energy needed to support a fast-moving, multi-brand design function.

Fashion retail success depends heavily on getting new designs to market quickly while still meeting the quality and trend-relevance customers expect, and an Assistant Designer who supports this process efficiently directly affects how fast a brand can respond to changing fashion trends and customer demand. Because Apparel Group operates across multiple brands simultaneously, design support capacity at this level has a multiplying effect, helping multiple brand design teams move faster rather than being a bottleneck for just one. Strong concept development and material research work also protects margin, catching design or sourcing issues early is considerably cheaper than discovering them after a design has gone into production. In a fast-moving multi-brand fashion retail business, the speed and quality of design support work directly shapes how competitive the group's various brands remain against fashion retailers who can also move quickly on trend-responsive product. This role, while junior in title, sits at a genuinely important point in the pipeline between fashion trend awareness and the products that actually reach store shelves.

An Assistant Designer role at Apparel Group offers genuinely broad design exposure across a large, multi-brand fashion retail portfolio, a breadth of practice that would be hard to replicate working for a single, smaller fashion label. That exposure to varied brand aesthetics and market positioning builds a flexible, commercially aware design skill set that serves well whether a designer's career eventually specializes in a particular brand style or stays broad across multiple categories. Apparel Group's scale across the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, and other GCC markets, with a genuinely multicultural design and merchandising environment, also provides exposure to diverse customer bases and design sensibilities that narrower, single-market design roles cannot offer. Assistant Designers who perform well and show strong multitasking and proactive initiative often progress into full Designer, Senior Designer, or Design Lead roles within the group over time, with genuine opportunities to specialize in a particular brand or category as they build experience. The fast pace and multi-brand nature of this role also builds strong project management and adaptability skills that are valuable throughout a design career, regardless of which direction it eventually takes. For an early-career designer who wants broad exposure and genuine growth potential, this role offers a strong, dynamic foundation within one of the region's largest fashion retail groups.

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Fashion Design or a related field
• Strong sketching, concept development, and material research skills
• Ability to multitask across multiple design projects or brands simultaneously
• Proactive, self-starting approach to supporting lead designers
• Good understanding of fashion trends and market considerations across different brand positioning
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven design environment
• Strong collaboration skills for working within a broader design team