Expert 3D Footwear Designer Jordan 3D Studio Sport

Who Youll Work With

You will join the Jordan 3D Design Studio reporting to the Sr. Director of 3D Excellence and working in close partnership with footwear design product creation engineering and development teams. You will serve as the dedicated 3D expert for Sport footwear collaborating with cross-category 3D peers and contributing to shared digital assets workflows and standards across Jordan Brand.

Who We Are Looking For

We are seeking an experienced and highly specialized Expert 3D Designer to drive digital creation within the Sport Team (Basketball FBAT Golf) Jordans performance product category. This role demands advanced modeling capability a performance-driven design mindset and the ability to turn athlete insight and creative intent into expressive digital form with speed and rigor.

You bring strong sculptural instincts fluency across modern 3D workflows and the ability to move confidently between rapid exploratory modeling and refined digital prototypes. You thrive in early-stage creation navigate through ambiguity build clarity through iteration and produce compelling renderings and animations that help teams see direction and make decisions faster.

You elevate digital craft by developing reusable assets documented workflows and high-bar examples that future teams inherit as Jordan continues scaling its digital creation muscle.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree inin Industrial Design Product Design Footwear Designor relevant design degree or a combination of relevant education experience and training

• 7 years in performance footwear or hard-surface 3D design

• Mastery in 3D tools (e.g. Rhino Grasshopper Alias Blender Maya ZBrush Modo)

• Strong rendering and animation skills for communicating form material and performance narrative

• Experience with digital-to-physical workflows including 3D printing and functional prototyping

• Familiarity with USD or scene-graph workflows and interest in building scalable libraries

• Portfolio demonstrating precision form literacy iterative thinking and modern digital craft

• Curiosity about emerging tools such as procedural workflows and responsible AI-assisted creation

• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work fluidly alongside design engineering and development partners

What Youll Work On

You will translate athlete informed concepts into high quality 3D assets that accelerate design clarity and decision making while contributing to repeatable digital systems that scale with the team.

• Lead 3D creation for performance footwear from early sculpting to refined digital prototypes

• Develop digital assets that balance ergonomic performance with Jordans identity and narrative

• Produce renders and lightweight animations to communicate design intent and functional story

• Build and maintain reusable digital bucks/lasts underlays and modeling templates

• Create and document rapid concept-to-print workflows for prototyping and testing

• Deliver USD-ready assets and support growth of Jordans digital asset library

• Explore procedural simulation and AI-enhanced workflows where they provide meaningful creation value

• Partner with footwear design engineering and development to solve complex form and manufacturing challenges

• Share methods resources and workflows that elevate digital craft across the studio

Why This Matters

This role advances the way Jordan creates performance product in 3D. You drive digital clarity speed and quality while building foundational assets and workflows that strengthen the offense for seasons to come.