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 ONYou 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 WITHAs 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).
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WHAT YOU BRINGDesign Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in product design or relevant design degree or combination of relevant education, experience, and training 5-7 yrs experience designing and developing innovative productsPassion for Sport and CultureAbility to translate consumer knowledge/insights to narratives and product solutions.Previous footwear product design experience preferredGood knowledge of manufacturing processes and materialsMust be able to generate a broad range of concepts and solutions for each projectProficient in Photoshop and Illustrator skillsMust be able to create accurate 2D technical drawingsStrong sketching, illustration, and rendering skillsExperience with Ai design tools is a plus3D knowledge and experience is a plus. (Rhino, Gravity Sketch, Keyshot, Substance, Blender)Cobbling and prototyping skills are a plusExperienced with presentation programs: Keynote, Powerpoint, Acrobat, etc.Team Requirements:
Positive attitude and energyTeam playerCollaborator and works well with othersSpeaks up with courage for self and the teamOpen minded, good listener and curiousActive and proficient participant in the creative process and cross-functional communicationWe 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.