Job Description
Sr Manager, Footwear Material Design
Who We Are Looking For:
What You Will Work On:
Who You Will Work With:
What You Bring:
Experience:
Top must-have skills include the following:
Skills that would make a candidate stand out:
- Onsite role at PHK; typical work hours, 4/1 hybrid schedule
- Contract is to support leave coverage, will run ~6 mos from start
- Degree preferred, not a hard requirement
- 10+ years' experience in footwear design preferred
- Client Design is where creative possibility meets purpose. It's a place for builders, boundary-breakers, and vision-setters people who move with conviction, think originally, and create work shaped by real experience and cultural depth. Our team thrives when imagination, discipline, and collaboration come together. We look for leaders who bring their full creative voice, who understand the communities that inspire us, and who are driven to shape the future for the next generation of athletes and fans.
Who We Are Looking For:
- We're looking for a Sr Manager, Footwear Material Design to combine their experience, problem solving abilities, and creativity to help build the future of Client Sport Footwear Material Design. The ideal candidate will elevate the consumer product experience by seamlessly integrating art, science, and streetwear culture into Sport leaning products. In this role, you will foster a deep emotional connection to our products by crafting compelling narratives and storytelling through innovative material concepts.
What You Will Work On:
- As the Sr Manager, Footwear Material Design, you will collaborate closely with leadership and cross-functional teams including Footwear Product Designers, Color Design, Developers, and Product Line Managers to advance innovative materials and manufacturing approaches on strategic projects. Your focus will be on shaping design direction and dimensional strategy, elevating existing materials, and pioneering new material concepts. As a recognized expert at both the product and collection level, you will translate consumer insights into compelling, trend and performance driven narratives. Success in this position depends on integrating design, development, and manufacturing to achieve product excellence. By leveraging research and a deep understanding of youth culture, color trends, fashion, art, and sports, you will help position client at the forefront of material innovation.
Who You Will Work With:
- On a day to day basis you'll work closely with your design partners in product design, color design and graphic design. You will also work cross functionally with your technical and material development partners, product management and merchandising teams.
What You Bring:
- EDUCATION:
- Bachelor's degree in design or equivalent education, experience, or training.
Experience:
- 8+ years of relevant design experience in advancing material design, textile design, or footwear design
- Bachelor's degree in design, art, or related field (fashion, product, industrial, accessory, footwear, or textile design); Master's degree accepted, Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
- Ability to interpret consumer insights and translate them into compelling product narratives
- Skilled in concept creation and exploring material innovations and technologies
- Experience building inspiration presentations and mood boards for seasonal concepts
- Understanding of the Footwear Product Creation process
- Experience collaborating with manufacturing partners to ensure design intent and material execution
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
- Experienced with presentation programs: Keynote, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Miro etc.
- Ability to ideate using digital platforms (Gravity Sketch, CLO a plus)
- Experience creating 3D samples and hand mockups (a plus)
- Strong presentation skills for small and large groups
- Collaborative, positive, good listener, receptive to candid feedback and diverse points of view.
- Passion for design, culture, and design excellence.
- Highly organized and self-sufficient
- Speaks up with courage for self and the team.
- Passion for and desire to learn people leadership.
Top must-have skills include the following:
- Collaborative nature
- Adobe expertise
- Product creation knowledge (i.e. construction, build, etc.)
- Solution oriented
- People management skills
Skills that would make a candidate stand out:
- 3D rendering skills
- Prior Client experience (or similar experience with a competitor)
- Consumer/market acumen
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Beaverton, OR |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://www.sunrisesys.com/ |
About Company
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.
We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients' site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.
Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:
- Business, management, and technical fields
- Information technology consulting and software solutions.
- Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
- Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies
Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:
- Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
- Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Data processing and data migration
- Application re-engineering and platform migration
- Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.
Skills
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