Part-Time Design Assistant (Intimates, Swim, Active)

Location: New York City, Hybrid-Remote Reports to: Designer Time Commitment: Part-Time, up to 20 hours per week Hourly Rate: $40-60 depending on experience Nice to meet you! Pepper is an innovative, fast-growing DTC intimate apparel brand created to celebrate small-chested women. Our iconic, solution-driven bras, swimwear, and apparel are thoughtfully designed to make every moment and outfit a confident and authentic expression of your best self. Pepper has been obsessed with uncompromising fit for small chests since 2017, with our 470% funded Kickstarter launch. Today, Pepper has grown into a global community of millions of women, united by the belief that women deserve to feel perfectly enough exactly as they are. We’re reshaping the conversation around fit, style, and confidence for small-chested bodies everywhere. Come join the movement! What we’re proud of: Remote-first, flexible, and human: We’re a fully remote-first team that values autonomy, balance, and trust. Pepper is built for people who want to do their best work from wherever they thrive. Without sacrificing connection, collaboration, or career growth. Women-founded & Self-funded: As a women-owned company that never took traditional VC funding, we’ve scaled to eight-figure revenue through focus, creativity, and scrappiness. People come here to help rewrite what success looks like in DTC, and to build alongside a team that loves breaking the “rules” of how startups should grow. Mission-driven with real impact: Everything we do is rooted in empowering small-chested people to feel confident and celebrated. Our mission shapes our products, our culture, and our decisions, from inclusive design to responsible manufacturing and community giving. Joining Pepper means using your work to make the world a little more comfortable, confident, and kind. This is where you come in. Pepper is looking for a detail-oriented Design Assistant to support our intimates, swimwear, and activewear design team on a part-time basis. You'll turn approved designs into accurate, production-ready tech packs, keep our linesheets and BOMs current, and help build the material standards that will streamline development across our programs. This role is ideal for someone who loves organization as much as creative design, understands garment construction (especially bras and intimates), and takes pride in making sure the team is always working from the most current information. You’ll be on the ground floor of a fast-paced DTC brand and get to work with a team of talented designers and tech designers making the most flattering product for small-chested women. You'll have visibility into how strategic assortment decisions are made, get to collaborate with Founders, and see the process from start-to-finish. Tech Pack Setup Turn approved seasonal sketches into tech packs by creating style folders, assigning style numbers, and building protoforms Build BOMs for new styles as part of tech pack…