Footwear Designer II - Teva

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Job Title: Footwear Designer II, Teva

Reports to: Design Director, Teva

Location: Portland, OR / Remote

The Role

Responsible for aiding in the functional performance design for the brand – building innovative and unique product for people who adventure in the outdoors. You own your projects from start to finish – working with development and product teams throughout the process. You have a passion for performance driven outdoor footwear, upcoming trends, and materials. You will facilitate the creative direction of the brand through unique design markers and functional attributes.

We celebrate diversity--of your background, your experiences and your unique identity. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and equitable workplace where all of our employees can Come as They Are. We believe that when we bring our different perspectives to work, we are truly Better Together.

Your Impact
The primary functions of this role, include but are not limited to:

• 1. Key focus on creating strong outdoor, functional, performance footwear.
• 2. Collaborate with triad group to better understand, design, and develop strong function-performance product.
• 3. Create design deliverables including tech packages, material maps, blue print revisions, and other key 2D files.
• 4. Implement creative direction ensuring product design always is tied to the brand and focused on solving a problem.

Who You Are

Passionate about creating function-performance footwear.

Ego-less and able to collaborate and work well within a product creation team.

Always willing to learn new processes, question existing processes, and evolve the way in which you can work.

We’d love to hear from people with

Has 4+ years of performance footwear experience and is driven by solving problems through design. Cares about the outdoors and how product can make a person’s live more fulfilling and adventurous. Is a team player that loves to create work together and not in a silo. Wants to continue learning new skills, new ways of working to continue to evolve as a designer. Able to take different points of view and create and talk through solutions. Strong communicator who can take design concepts and …