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Senior Designer
Adidas Group
New York, NY, United States
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Senior Designer, Advance Concepts Apparel
ADVANCED CONCEPTS
Our industry relies on cutting edge innovations to build brand heat and desire for our consumers which will ultimately drive company growth. Based on the continuous success of 'Creating the New' and Brand Leadership as our operating model we need to elevate our game. To lead and manage these innovations better, we recently announced the new Advanced Concepts (AC) team to further strengthen our ambition as a leading creator sports brand. The newly formed Advanced Creation (AC) team, to further strengthen the ambition as a leading creator brand which fuels the innovation pipeline for our consumers. AC will shape the future of sport through athlete driven strategic innovations. The aim for AC is to provide a functional link and close gap between our innovation and categories teams, with one shared innovation goal. Working together with the Horizontal Concept and Creation Direction team, they will set us up to accelerate apparel & footwear innovation across the brand. Advanced Creation will have dedicated resources and teams across 3 locations (PDX/Brooklyn/Herzo). Key purpose will be design, development, testing, costing and planning the roll-out of faster innovation, more reliable and fully orchestrated in the framework of Brand Leadership. It is important that we continue to challenge ourselves, to learn and adapt to our changing business environment. We must constantly iterate and evolve to become faster and stronger together.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Identify future design opportunities to ‘fuel’ the brand.
• Think outside the box, yet always from adidas and consumer POV.
• Develop hyper creative and innovative designs that are functional, emotional and strategic to elevate brand.
• Prototype fast to explore and convey ideas.
Purpose
To create industry leading creative solutions and concepts for the adidas brand as part of an international design team in cooperation with design leadership, marketing and development.
Key Responsibilities
• Conceptualize and design ranges for advanced concept design.
• Maintain design consistency throughout the product line from the direction outlined by Design Director.
• Help to create the overall category design & creative direction strategy.
• Identify new product opportunities through market research and sales analysis. Drive innovation with strategic vendors.
• Collaborate with design to identify seasonal market trends in yarns, stitch, construction details and silhouette.
• Create new product ideas that support company growth and brand initiatives.
• Manage proto development for new concept designs.
• Collaborate with counterparts throughout adidas on cross-brand innovation projects.
• Work closely with Development, Tech Services, and Product Testing to resolve product issues from design packages through commercialization
• Work with athletes and customers as a professional representative of the brand
• Work with factories and suppliers
• Research functional criteria for product and outline area of innovation
• Create professional level presentations of ideas; from loose sketch to detailed renderings to PowerPoint
• Maintain communication with superiors, and ensure the message is understood within the team
• Insure proper compliance of brand identity marks and usage on product
Key Relationships
• Design Directors
• Category Designers
• Global Creative Directors
• BU Directors
• Development
• Factories
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Knowledge of functional sportswear apparel product design.
• Ability to design for new initiatives and create performance apparel with a fresh, innovative perspective.
• Mac skills using Illustrator, Adobe Professional and Photoshop applications.
• Ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams at all levels within the organization.
• Ability to influence and collaborate with key business partners.
• Strong conceptual thinking and ability to drive concepts.
• Knowledge of design and material trends, specifically sporting goods industry trends.
• Ability to create designs that meet sports category needs and commercial opportunities.
• Ability to effectively present design ideas and concepts.
• Ability to operate in a fast paced, ever changing work environment
• Ability to lead projects and meet key deadlines
• Fluent in English (spoken and written)
Qualifications
1. Bachelor degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university in a relevant Design subject or equivalent relevant industry experience
2. Minimum 6 years practical experience in a relevant area