Senior Designer, Innovation Sportswear Footwear Product Design
Senior Designer, Innovation Sportswear Footwear Product Design
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WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a Senior Designer to join the Innovation Sportswear Footwear Design team. The ideal designer is a curious observer eager participant and a cultural sponge seeking insights to solve problems. You leverage your outstanding design skills with creative problem solving to create innovative solutions that elevate the experience and key benefits relevant to the athletes and communities we serve. You will create industry-leading product through deeply resonating stories.
The ideal candidate thrives on team collaboration and building functional working relationships to help bring the teams to successful project completion - from concept to reality.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
You will work on innovative designs that push the possibilities of sports and culture through footwear for a targeted consumer. We expect you to explore new opportunities take risks and change the game! In your day to day you will engage with project teammates on researching gaining insights problem solving around performance aesthetic and manufacturing. Creating a vast range of creative and beautiful solutions that are also sustainable and considerate of cost. With each project you are expected to also participate and present the work in informal and formal reviews. In addition to individual project work you will also collaborate and actively engage in ideation and sketch sessions across the larger footwear design team.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
As a Senior Designer you will collaborate with the Sportswear Innovation Design Director and with the design community within Innovation and Inline teams (industrial designers materials color computational etc.). You will also be working hand in hand with a large project team of different experts (engineers researchers scientists marketing sustainability materials costing etc).
**TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE PLEASE SUBMIT A DESIGN PORTFOLIO (EITHER UPLOAD A PDF FILE TO THIS APPLICATION OR INCLUDE A WEBSITE URL & PASSWORD IF APPLICABLE)
WHAT YOU BRING
Design Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in product design or relevant design degree or combination of relevant education experience and training
- 5-7 yrs experience designing and developing innovative products
- Passion for Sport and Culture
- Ability to translate consumer knowledge/insights to narratives and product solutions.
- Previous footwear product design experience preferred
- Good knowledge of manufacturing processes and materials
- Must be able to generate a broad range of concepts and solutions for each project
- Proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator skills
- Must be able to create accurate 2D technical drawings
- Strong sketching illustration and rendering skills
- Experience with Ai design tools is a plus
- 3D knowledge and experience is a plus. (Rhino Gravity Sketch Keyshot Substance Blender)
- Cobbling and prototyping skills are a plus
- Experienced with presentation programs: Keynote Powerpoint Acrobat etc.
Team Requirements:
- Positive attitude and energy
- Team player
- Collaborator and works well with others
- Speaks up with courage for self and the team
- Open minded good listener and curious
- Active and proficient participant in the creative process and cross-functional communication
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for in-person interviews closed captioning and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover as you navigate our application process that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
