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Bring your talents to Ross, our leading off-price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, and a strong track record of success and growth. Our focus has always been bringing our customers a constant stream of high-quality brands and on-trend merchandise at extraordinary savings. All while providing a fun and exciting treasure hunt experience.
As part of our team, you will experience:
- Success. Our winning team pursues excellence while learning and evolving
- Career growth. We develop industry leading talent because Ross grows when our people grow
- Teamwork. We work together to solve the hard problems and find the right solution
- Our commitment to Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, and our community. We celebrate the backgrounds, identities, and ideas of those who work and shop with us because our differences make us stronger. We strive to be a positive force in our community.
Our Corporate headquarters are in Dublin, CA, we have 3 buying offices in key markets in New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston, and 8 distribution centers nationwide. With 2025 revenues of $22.8 billion, we are a Fortune 500 company who is committed to providing an inclusive work environment with continuous learning opportunities and development for our teams.
About this opportunity...
The Fashion Assistant II supports the Director of the NY Fashion Office in delivering trend direction and creative insights that inspire and inform the business. This role is responsible for researching fashion, consumer, and cultural shifts, identifying emerging opportunities, and connecting insights across trend, market, competitive, and sales data. The ideal candidate combines strong creative instincts with a natural ability to connect dots across fashion, consumer behavior, culture, market intelligence, and business performance, transforming observations into compelling stories and actionable insights.
What you will do and what you will learn...
- Assist Director in pulling together seasonal trend and color presentations for all relevant meetings and deliverables (trend reports and seasonal forecasts).
- Proactively researches emerging consumer, cultural, and category trends and synthesizes findings into actionable recommendations for merchants and Fashion Office leadership.
- Partner cross-functionally with merchants and Fashion Office team members to identify opportunities, share insights, and support key business initiatives.
- Create trend reports based on competitive/trend shopping findings to be distributed to the Fashion Office and merchants.
- Shop Ross Stores monthly, create a trend recap including observations and recommendations about the assortment to share with Director/VP and merchant team.
- Prepare talking points and trend ideas to share at Concept, Trends to Track, Style-outs, Best Seller Meetings.
- Serve as Fashion Office representative when Director is traveling in all market/ trend/ vendor meetings as needed.
- Attend market appointments with Ross merchant team where applicable.
- Work with Trend Services and attend all relevant trend meetings.
- Coordinate and manage samples for creative requests.
What you need to be successful...
• Demonstrates curiosity about fashion, retail, consumer trends and cultural influences.
• Ability to connect insights across fashion, consumer, cultural signals to identify opportunities.
• Great eye for overall fashion/ trend/ color.
• Highly proactive; able to anticipate needs and take ownership of projects.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to build relationships cross functionally with internal and external partners.
• Ability to support multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong storytelling skills, able to communicate trend and business insights.
• Strong visual communication skills with an eye for design, layout, color, and trend storytelling.
• Positive attitude, adaptability, and willingness to learn.
• Demonstrates a growth mindset by actively seeking feedback, incorporating recommendations, and continuously developing skills and expertise.
• Bachelor's Degree required.