Senior Product Designer (m/f/d)

We are an innovative, swiss, technology company focusing on the development and marketing of high-end knitting sports textiles. World class athletes like Wendy Holdener, Marco Odermatt and Timo Bracht are trusting us to release the last percent of energy with our premium next-to-skin textiles.

Tasks

• Develop product designs (3D, 2D) for new products (Apparel and Socks) based on product briefing
• Review and evolve physical prototypes together with the team and the supplier
• Together with the team, create seasonal design and color direction
• Create and evolve toolbox for fabrics, trims and logos
• Ensure design and fit consistency, review fitting of prototypes
• Work in close partnership with the cross functional team to build and commercialize
  apparel product across categories
• Exchange with suppliers to ensure design and product quality throughout entire development process until SMS release
• Drive the design perspective and provide direction through the end-to-end design process and validate solutions
• Support in creating a branding guideline and implement into seasonal work
• Review and enhance 3D designs for existing products
• Manage documentation of both new and revised designs

Requirements

• Successfully complete studies of Industrial Design, fashion design or textile engineering
• Several years of professional product design experience (at least 4 years) or similar positions in product development for respective product categories
• Familiar with design / development of technical sporting goods, ideally apparel and/or socks and with knitting
• Sports addict, profound understanding of the sport activities, in which we are operating
• Advanced knowledge of tools like 4dcinema, clo3D, Adobe Creative Cloud Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, and in particular, Photoshop
• Creative, precise and independent approach to work
• Ambitious and motivated for a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Strong ability to work in a team
• Very good communication and expression skills in and English and German, both written and spoken