Paka
Senior Designer / Technical Developer, Men’s and Women’s
Boulder, CO | 2024–2026
Recruited to a three-person product team to build the women’s and men’s knitwear business from the ground up. Led the entire development process from factory relationships, yarn and fiber sourcing, knit-down development, design and sketching through final TOP’s.
Key Achievements
Directed, designed, and executed the brand's first “Women’s Hoodie” sweater silhouette, leading to the largest single revenue day in the brand’s history at launch. After flowing more units into the style, the “women’s hoodie” continued to be the single largest revenue driver in 2025.
Owned the “Heritage Collection” - the first pattern collection for the brand. Through collaborating with artisans in Peru to interpret traditional Quechua motifs into hand drawn knit patterns. Launch day was the brand’s 2nd largest revenue day for 2025.
Developed the brand’s first proprietary melange color blends for core yarns, resolving previous color approval delays, and increasing seasonal core style revenue by 30%