Senior Footwear Designer
As the Senior Sport/Casual Footwear Designer, you will work collaboratively with the Senior Leadership and the Creative Teams to create original design solutions. In this role, you will have the opportunity to help to set the direction for product design, innovation, and aesthetic with design responsibility for two fast-growth sport/casual performance footwear brands.
This is a unique opportunity to create lines from concept to reality and to produce footwear products that will define the emerging brand’s design image, product performance and appeal to targeted consumers. In this role, you will also be engaged in following the execution of all product details, including construction, color, form, style, detail, fit, performance and cost/value requirements.
Key Accountabilities
- Design innovative products for two lifestyle performance footwear ranges based on innovation platform, creative direction, consumer tastes, and retail sales trends
- Collaborate with marketing to remain informed of current trends and market needs
- Gather and translate relevant information needed to design a consumer and market right collection
- Store checks, market visits, team travel
- Trade publications, trade fairs, sports events
- General interest press, trend services, fashion and sportswear magazines
- Create inspiration presentations to show creative process / output
- Focus product designs for market success and finalize technical packages
- Create working drawings and colored sketches as needed, then design collections using Shoemaster CAD software
- Hand off design to development and communicate all relevant information needed for development process
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design or Product Design
- 5 or more years of experience designing and commercializing functional footwear
- Knowledge of color, textures, human factors and form as they relate to designing excellent products
- PhotoShop and Illustrator proficiency plus experience with 3D design programs such as Shoemaster
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes, footwear construction, plastics and other engineering materials are preferred
- Ability to design for new initiatives and products with a fresh, innovative perspective
- Knowledge of consumer trends and styles
- Ability to operate in a fast past, ever changing work environment
- A passion for performance excellence
If this sounds like you, please apply today.