Design Producer
Glydways
Senior Innovation Manager, Global Footwear Design
Arc'teryx Equipment
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Oregon
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💰 $122,000 - $155,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- As aSenior Innovation Manager, Global Footwear Design, you partner cross-functionally to support centralizing Footwear innovation work as a representative of Footwear Design. You create and coordinate design work for advanced Footwear projects, overseeing timelines and roadmaps to support cross-functional inline partners and to deliver specific method, product, performance and experience innovations
- You contribute to the design creative direction for Arc’teryx Footwear, across platforms, products, and projects that enable the mountain athlete. You create new space in technical footwear solutions; driving innovation, sustainability, and articulating the collective Footwear Design vision that exceeds our athlete’s evolving needs
- This role is based out of our Portland office and is expected to be performed on site
- Meet your future team: The Arc’teryx Footwear team creates innovative, beautiful product that exceeds the core mountain athlete’s needs in the outdoors. We are builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying our athlete’s needs then build, test, and validate products that solve for real functional challenges. We are a passionate collective with a focus on collaborative teamwork and our vision is to redefine the industry.
Requirements
- You have a degree in Industrial Product Design, Engineering, or the equivalent industry experience
- You have 8+ years’ experience in a technical athletic and/or outdoor technical footwear environment, and 5+ years’ experience leading projects
- You have a proven track record in developing and leading the execution of multi-year innovation projects
- You have strong influential leadership, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse cross-functional stakeholders at all levels of the business
- You coach, up skill, mentor, develop your team members to fulfil their goals and potential, seeking opportunities for their growth within the professional setting
- You have an expert understanding of the footwear industry and a proven ability to make strategic design decisions
- You are a team player who has the ability to effectively work in a dynamic work environment, with high inter-dependencies between teams, cross-cultural colleagues, and diverse and innovative thinking
- You have a keen interest in technical products and meaningful functional solutions and its application to a variety of outdoor activities
- You have the ability to travel internationally as required
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues, seeking the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
- You facilitate break through thinking and continuous improvement
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
