Job Description

Job Details:

Job Title: Materials Designer (Footwear)

Location: Beaverton, OR (4-days Hybrid Onsite)

Duration: 5+ Months

Type: Full-Time, Contract

DESCRIPTION:

• The nature of the work is focused on designing innovative and visually appealing materials as well as styling and curating existing materials for various footwear projects.
• Blend artistic skills with technical knowledge to design materials that enhance the overall aesthetics and functionality of footwear.
• Collaborate with project teams to understand functional specifications and end use.
• Build consumer right materials solutions that elevate projects, informed by trend, material properties, industry and consumer/athlete insights.
• Present materials palettes, concepts and mood boards to key stakeholders and leadership at key gates.
• Utilize design software and tools to create and refine material concepts.
• Create prototypes and hand samples to test ideas.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across multiple teams to integrate materials seamlessly into the overall design solution.
• Consider factors such as form, function, and manufacturing processes.
• Stay informed about sustainable and eco-friendly materials.
• Integrate environmentally responsible options into design considerations and recommend alternatives that align with sustainability goals.
• Create comprehensive design CADs/techpacks to communicate design to factory and suppliers for sampling.

• QUALIFICATIONS:
• Experience with shoe design for sporting companies a big plus.
• Covering FTE leave in Footwear Materials and Flyknit Design - FW Design Excellence
• Candidates must be competent in Adobe Illustrator at a minimum with advanced knowledge of Adobe Suite a plus.
• Interest in learning AI design tools for design exploration would be good (candidates would likely need to learn this skill on-the-job since the programs are so new).

ADDITIONAL INFO:

• Designers will have access to a makers space (BRS studio), where there is equipment to make small samples which will be part of the role. Use of sewing machines, heat-presses, screen printing and other techniques that are avail to the designer. These tools wouldn’t be used daily but would be more mapped to projects as a way to illustrate concepts and ideas, test aesthetics, etc.

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.

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