# Children’s Apparel Graphic Art Manager **Company:** [Garan, Incorporated](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/wzRzF6m2udV5aqGnEDxec3.md) **Location:** New York, United States **Workplace:** on site **Employment type:** Full-time **Department:** Division [Apply for this job](http://jobs.workable.com/view/959509ad-6375-47d4-b163-6bb3f565b21c) ## Description ### Children’s Apparel Graphic Art Manager ### About the Role Garan is seeking an experienced **Children’s Apparel Graphic Art Manager** to lead and elevate graphic art development across our children’s apparel business. We’re looking for a creative leader with deep experience in **kids’ apparel graphics** who understands what makes a graphic compelling, age-appropriate, trend-relevant, and commercially successful. You’ll combine strong creative judgment and art direction with hands-on knowledge of apparel graphic production—helping translate ideas from trend and concept through final production artwork. You’ll also help us look ahead. From emerging graphic trends and new print techniques to **generative AI and creative technology**, you’ll identify new opportunities that expand creative possibilities and help our Art teams work smarter and faster. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced **apparel Art Manager, Graphics Manager, Art Director, or senior graphic design leader** who is passionate about children’s apparel and wants to influence both the creative work and how it gets made. ### What You’ll Do ### Lead Children’s Apparel Graphic Art - Lead and elevate **graphic art development for children’s apparel**, delivering original, age-right, brand-right, and customer-relevant creative. - Translate trends across **kids’ fashion, retail, culture, entertainment, color, and graphic design** into commercially relevant graphic concepts. - Provide creative direction across **illustration, typography, color, print, placement, pattern, and embellishment**. - Coach and develop graphic artists, raising the quality, originality, and consistency of the work. - Identify new aesthetics, techniques, materials, and graphic applications that can differentiate our product. - Balance creative ambition with customer needs, retail positioning, cost, scalability, and manufacturability. ### Drive Technical & Production Excellence - Guide artwork from **creative concept through production artwork and factory execution**. - Ensure artwork, specifications, files, color information, and production documentation are accurate and production-ready. - Apply strong knowledge of apparel graphic techniques including **screen printing, digital printing, heat transfer, embroidery, appliqué, specialty inks, and embellishments**. - Partner with Product Development, Technical Design, Sourcing, vendors, and Global teams to ensure creative concepts can be manufactured successfully while protecting creative intent. - Improve standards and processes that reduce revisions, increase consistency, and strengthen final product execution. ### Bring New Ideas & Technology to the Art Team - Stay connected to emerging trends in **children’s apparel, graphic design, culture, retail, technology, and consumer behavior**. - Experiment with **generative AI and emerging creative tools** for research, ideation, graphic exploration, visualization, and productivity. - Identify opportunities to improve creative workflows, eliminate repetitive work, and accelerate graphic development. - Help establish practical tools, templates, standards, and best practices that make the Art organization more creative, agile, and effective. - Partner across functions to introduce new creative capabilities, technologies, and ways of working. ### What We’re Looking For - **8+ years of experience** in children’s apparel graphics, apparel graphic design, apparel art, or a closely related fashion/apparel creative field. - Significant experience creating or leading **graphics for children’s apparel**. - A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in **apparel graphics, illustration, typography, print, color, placement, and graphic storytelling**. - Experience managing, mentoring, or providing creative direction to graphic artists and designers. - Strong understanding of apparel graphic development from **concept through production artwork and manufacturing**. - Knowledge of apparel printing, embellishment, production requirements, and factory execution. - Strong awareness of **kids’ fashion, retail, cultural trends, and emerging graphic aesthetics**. - Advanced proficiency in **Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop**. - Curiosity and practical experience with **generative AI, creative technology, workflow innovation, or process improvement**. - Strong communication, collaboration, organization, and cross-functional leadership skills. - Experience with PLM or digital asset management systems is a plus. ### What Will Make You Successful You combine the eye of a **children’s apparel graphic artist** with the leadership skills to make an entire Art team stronger. You’re curious about what’s next, but you also understand what will work at retail. You can recognize a great graphic idea, help an artist make it better, understand how it needs to be produced, and collaborate with partners to bring it successfully to market. You’re equally interested in **creative excellence and continuous improvement**—whether that means discovering a new graphic technique, coaching an artist, solving a production challenge, or finding a smarter way to work using AI and emerging technology. ### Search-Relevant Experience Children’s Apparel • Kids Apparel • Childrenswear • Apparel Graphics • Graphic Art • Apparel Graphic Design • Art Direction • Graphics Manager • Art Manager • Illustration • Print Design • Production Artwork • Screen Printing • Embellishment • Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Photoshop • Trend Research • Generative AI • Creative Technology • Creative Operations ### Salary Expectations $130,000 - $150,000