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Textile Designer, UNIQLO

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Brand UNIQLOUNIQLO
Location Ariake Headquarters: UNIQLO CITY, 1-6-7 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
*The location of the work may involve coming and going from one office to another for business reasons.
Location may be changed to a location determined by the company, including overseas.

Update Apr, 4 2025

Job Description

■ Recruitment Background:
MADE FOR ALL". There are many kinds of clothes in the world, but UNIQLO has a completely new way of thinking about clothing.
Clothes for all people, transcending all distinctions of nationality, age, occupation, and gender. We aim to create clothes that people around the world can easily afford and that make them look great as a tool for their own lifestyles.
The R&D Department is a group of experts who actually commercialize our "LifeWear" concept. We are looking for new members to help us further evolve the creation of clothing that embodies "LifeWear".

■ Department Overview:
The R&D Department, to which you will be assigned, is a group of experts who actually commercialize the LifeWear concept. In-house designers and pattern makers are active at six global locations (Tokyo/Shanghai/Paris/London/NY/LA), with Tokyo at the center. Planning products that match people's living environment, styles, and times, and incorporating designs as actual demand into the "LifeWear" concept. To continuously provide well-thought-out, simple clothing that changes the lives of people around the world for the better and in a richer way. Our goal is to continue to bring innovation to the world through our clothes.

■ Job Description
As a textile designer, you will be responsible for printing, graphic design, yarn-dyeing, etc. for items such as clothing and innerwear. Specifically, the Job Description is as follows
Propose textile designs and create graphics for clothing and goods.
Select colors for the created graphics and request them to the factories.
Extensive research and market analysis

Job Descriptions are subject to change within the scope of work related to each department of the headquarters due to departmental changes or reorganization.

Qualifications

Required Experience, Skills, and Abilities
Experience in independent textile design for women's, men's, and children's products (at least 3 years of working experience as a designer)
(Experience in designing, commissioning, and ordering from factories)
As a global product developer, you must be able to grasp domestic and international trends, lifestyles, and needs, and create designs accordingly.
Able to create computer graphics using Illustrator/Photoshop, etc.

Experience, skills, and abilities that would be welcome
In our business, we need to communicate internally and externally in English, and you need to be able to communicate in email and daily conversation without hesitation.

We may ask you to submit your past design drawings, artwork, etc. during the selection process. (We ask that you manage your own information.)

Work Condition

Company name: UNIQLO Inc.
Employment Status: Temporary employee (with a probationary period of 3 months)
(After the second year, if performance and evaluations meet the criteria for promotion to permanent employee, the position will be made permanent.)
The employment contract may be renewed in consideration of the company's business needs and the individual's performance (no automatic renewal).
There is no upper limit to the number of contract renewals (total period or number of renewals).

■Annual salary
Annual salary range: 3.5-10 million yen (monthly salary: 240,000-570,000 yen)
Commuting allowance, overtime allowance, etc. (*All in accordance with our company's regulations)
Bonuses: Semiannual bonus twice a year, year-end bonus (whether or not to be paid and the amount will be decided according to the company's performance and personnel evaluation)
Promotion: Twice a year (determined according to personnel evaluation)
(Not limited to the above, but will be determined based on our company's rules and regulations in consideration of annual salary and experience in previous jobs.

Working hours
Flextime system or management supervisor
Flextime system
Standard working hours per day ... 8 hours, break ... 1 hour
Core time ... 9:00 - 14:00
Flexible hours ... 6:00-9:00 and 14:00-20:00 with overtime

Supervisors
Based on the working hours of the department to which the employee belongs, and left to the employee's decision

Vacations and Vacations
2 days off per week (Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays correspond to working days) Annual paid vacations, special/ congratulatory/condolence leave, childcare/nursing care leave system, etc.
In addition to paid vacations, special leave is granted in the first and second terms (the number of days granted varies depending on the employment status and the company to which the employee belongs).

Insurance
Social insurance (health insurance, employee pension, unemployment insurance, workers' accident compensation insurance, and nursing care insurance)

Benefits
Employee stock ownership system, Mutual aid association system, Affiliated welfare programs, Employee discount system, Cafeteria, Exclusive shuttle bus (for commuting to Ariake office), Defined contribution pension plan (for regular employees only)

Others
We are actively recruiting mid-career workers for our group companies (Fast Retailing, UNIQLO, GU, etc.). We hope you will also check the following and consider applying.
-You may apply to multiple companies within the Fast Retailing Group at the same time. However, please note that even if you are selected for multiple companies, you will only be able to advance to the final round for one position at a time.
-We will consider your resume, interview evaluation, and other factors in the selection process and may offer you a position in another Fast Retailing Group company.
Smoking is not permitted on the premises or indoors, and there are no smoking rooms or other smoking areas.

Location

Ariake Headquarters: UNIQLO CITY, 1-6-7 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
The location of work may require travel to and from the office for business reasons.
Location may be changed to other locations as determined by the company, including overseas.

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