Footwear Designer - Key Accounts

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

To execute requested products for North America specific key accounts in cooperation with marketing and development on an SMU or shortened calendar.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute multiple creative concepts driven by briefs from NAM key accounts and marketing counterparts. Present the designs in context to the marketing and key account direction.
• Verbally present product ideas and details with clarity
• Collaborate across team functions efficiently and quickly to finalize color and material concepts to hit sample deadlines- ensuring on time sample delivery.
• Ability to research seasonal NAM specific trend ideas and create concepts to present to accounts
• Ability to complete work in a timely and detailed oriented fashion
• Understand the creative vision in a product range for the category.
• Understand and track INLINE franchise design languages within the category and overall INLINE seasonal direction.
• Understand and execute Corporate Identity guidelines according to legal guidance.
• Ensure efficient process and communication flow between design, marketing and development (within x- functional team) for all issues regarding the designed ranges and products.
• Ensure proper handover of cads into development and marketing. Main duty is to submit all relevant information needed for the final sample including graphic files, color and material callouts.

Authorities:

Primary-Senior Designer (based in PDX)

Secondary- Design Director, Color and Materials (based in LA)

Key Relationships:

• Marketing

• Development

• Design team members

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong collaboration skills. Ability to work within a team structure to come to a unified decision.
• General knowledge of footwear design
• GFX helpful but not necessary
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Good knowledge of product development, material and trims for assigned product range
• Passion for Design
• Good level of creativity
• High level of detail orientation
• High knowledge/ use of Macintosh computer design software/systems (Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Fluent in English (spoken and written)
• Strongly versed in Adobe Creative Suite

• Illustrator

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree (B.A.) from a college or university, major Design or industrial product engineering

• 3 years of practical experience in design environment (Footwear/ Apparel/ Accessories - or industrial design, fashion design or similar design related areas)

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• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
• At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday. The working location of this position is Portland, Oregon.
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