Job Description
Fashion & Graphic Designer — YODA Merch
Location: Mumbai
Type: Full-time
YODA is creating a new clothing and merchandise brand with a strong point of view — premium, cool, slightly unexpected and made for people who care about animals without wanting to wear traditional “NGO merch.”
We’re looking for a Fashion & Graphic Designer who can help build this brand from the ground up.
This is not a role for someone who only makes graphics.
We want someone who understands clothing, fit, fabric, trims, graphics, embroidery, printing, sampling and production, and can take an idea all the way from a moodboard to a finished product.
What you’ll work on
Design and develop collections across:
- T-shirts and oversized tees
- Hoodies and sweatshirts
- Tracksuits and track pants
- Socks
- Caps and accessories
- Limited-edition drops
- Experimental / statement merchandise
The aesthetic should feel young, premium and fashion-first — sometimes minimal, sometimes quirky, but never generic.
Think interesting placements, unexpected details, great typography, subtle animal references, embroidery, textures, unusual graphics and products people would genuinely want to wear even if they knew nothing about YODA.
What you’ll do
Create the visual language of the brand
Develop graphics, typography, illustrations, motifs, prints and placement ideas that make the collection instantly recognisable.
Design actual garments
Work on silhouettes, colours, fabric choices, fits, washes, trims, embroidery, labels and detailing — not just artwork placed on existing T-shirts.
Develop collections
Turn broad themes and ideas into cohesive seasonal drops and capsules with hero products and commercially wearable pieces.
Own sampling and product development
Work closely with manufacturers and vendors on:
- Tech packs
- Fabric sourcing
- Printing techniques
- Embroidery
- Trims
- Colour matching
- Samples
- Fit corrections
- Quality control
Follow products through multiple sample rounds until they are ready for production.
Bring unexpected ideas
We want someone constantly thinking:
What would make someone stop scrolling?
What detail would make this piece collectible?
How can an animal reference be cool rather than obvious?
What could become our signature?
Who we’re looking for
Someone with approximately 3–7+ years of experience in fashion, streetwear, lifestyle apparel or premium merchandise.
You should have:
- Strong graphic design skills
- Excellent understanding of typography and placement graphics
- Experience designing apparel collections
- Knowledge of fabrics, garment construction and fits
- Experience working directly with manufacturers
- Understanding of printing, embroidery and garment-finishing techniques
- Ability to create tech packs and production-ready artwork
- Strong visual taste and awareness of global fashion and youth culture
- A portfolio that shows originality rather than repetitive commercial design
Experience with Illustrator, Photoshop and relevant fashion-design software is expected.
Most importantly
We are looking for someone with taste.
Someone who notices the difference between something that is merely nice and something people actually want.
Someone who can take a strange little idea — a tail coming out of a pocket, one unexpected word across a tracksuit, an embroidered animal detail hidden inside a sleeve — and turn it into something fashionable.
The ambition is to build a real clothing brand, not an NGO merchandise line.
It should have the quality, design language and desirability to stand on its own.
And every product should ultimately help YODA do more for animals.