Senior Apparel Designer – One Foundation

Reebok is a global brand that creates and markets sports and lifestyle products upon an authenticity in sports, fitness, and women’s categories. The brand is committed to designing products and marketing programs that reflect creativity.

The Senior Apparel Designer – One Foundation is responsible for researching trends, ideation of new concepts and creating compelling garments to meet the brand aesthetic. This person works with the apparel team to ensure that each garment meets the categories product brief and the seasonal design direction set by the Creative Director and Senior Management team.

• Accurately depict hand-drawn sketches, designs, graphic applications, and ideations as digitally rendered line art, flat patterns, 2D / 3D, technical drawings, and other required art / illustrations
• Capture mental impressions and ideas in visual, verbal, or audio renderings
• Effectively and efficiently navigate and use Reebok software tools and systems
• Use appropriate Reebok forms and templates, such as briefs and tech packs, to capture, convey, and communicate design and product information to others throughout the design cycle
• Create technical drawings and representations of fabric, trim, graphic artwork, and products such that construction information is interpreted exactly as intended
• Select appropriate methods of communications to accurately convey technical information in informal and formal situations
• Create design and concept boards to communicate seasonal direction and design theme application to a product or product line
• Create and determine contents of seasonal tools, such as material tool boxes or palettes
• Create supporting artwork that illustrates design concepts and tells stories
• Create new products, graphics, seasonal color palettes, or seasonal vision / concepts using trends in fashion and culture, competition, and Reebok past designs as catalysts
• Translate fashion and culture trends to the brand, products, product lines, design concepts, color, and graphics
• Freely speculate possibilities and if/then scenarios during brainstorming or sketch sessions
• Employ multi-dimensional thinking to ideate and discover new perspectives,view points, or approaches
• Use unorthodox or atypical ways of solving problems to conceive innovative, usable concepts, or inspire other concepts / ideas
• Incorporate seasonal inspiration, fabric/materials/trims, color, and graphics stories in designs that have visual aesthetic as well as relevant product color / graphics themes and placement
• Select and ensure color, graphics/prints, materials, fit, and trims enhance product aesthetic, works within overall design range, and overall design has market appeal
• Ensure the product successfully meets the brand aesthetic by adhering to Reebok design DNA fundamentals
• Design small collections, collections, and/or special make-up designs that take cost, style, fit, fabric, trims, and technology into account
• Design products based on accurate assessment of fabric and anatomical characteristics
• Ensure construction, finishing techniques, and textiles enhance product usability
• Select textiles based on their functional properties, aesthetic, cost, and support of the intended design
• Infuse and apply new technologies to performance products or fashion influences to sports-based lifestyle products or graphics / color and ensure they are integral elements of the design
• Research and apply new and innovative ways to use existing techniques
• Visualize concepts, impressions, and ideas in concrete and tangible ways
• Translate design concepts to products and product lines
• Attend and contribute to review sessions for designs, construction, fit, and/or prototypes
• Resolve product design and development problems using innovative approaches
• Apply garment pattern-making and garment fitting tecniques to ensure proper construction
• Ensure design reflects / incorporates market needs and product brief requirements
• Design products that are achievable given construction and manufacturing techniques
• Use relevant and appropriate resources to accurately determine, anticipate, and validate current and future trends, competition, retail landscape, and cultural drivers
• Use appropriate research methods and resources to efficiently obtain current, reliable, and credible information regarding markets, colors, trends, consumers, retailer strategies, and other required types of information
• Interpret and understand consumer dynamics, predict shifts, and react to trends
• Make accurate assessments and projections of competitors' strengths and weaknesses in the global market relative to the Reebok brand, products, and product lines including market presence, tactics, merchandising, and trends
• Maintain current information of Reebok and industry factors that can affect products, such as material, technology, and consumer feedback and insight
• Accurately assess the impact consumers have on the market
• Employ formal and informal methods to gain insight and to research industry, market, consumer, and competitor information
• Analyze and summarize research data
• Gather and apply market research and/or consumer feedback to accurately anticipate and fulfill consumer needs, and identify consumers and trends
• Use relevant and appropriate resources to accurately determine, anticipate, and validate current and future trends, competition, retail landscape, and cultural drivers
• Use appropriate research methods and resources to efficiently obtain current, reliable, and credible information regarding markets, colors, trends, consumers, retailer strategies, and other required types of information
• Interpret and understand consumer dynamics, predict shifts, and react to trends
• Make accurate assessments and projections of competitors' strengths and weaknesses in the global market relative to the Reebok brand, products, and product lines including market presence, tactics, merchandising, and trends
• Maintain current information of Reebok and industry factors that can affect products, such as material, technology, and consumer feedback and insight
• Accurately assess the impact consumers have on the market
• Employ formal and informal methods to gain insight and to research industry, market, consumer, and competitor information
• Analyze and summarize research data
• Gather and apply market research and/or consumer feedback to accurately anticipate and fulfill consumer needs, and identify consumers and trends
• Create / design products that integrate technology, function, and design aesthetic and remain within cost margins
• Assess potential cost / margin impact of fabric, color, trim, graphics, treatments, technology, components, and construction choices
• Resolve cost / margin issues and ensure product / design realization and execution, within budget, against the targeted Go-In-Margin, revenue, quality / pricing, and timelines to meet market requirements
• Analyze and select design / product elements based on cost and a hierarchy of importance
• Fulfill product briefs' cost, margin, and competitive pricing requirements

• Provide prompt and constructive feedback, and assume a coaching role to support and inspire subordinates, including interns and apprentices
• Tackle conflicts proactively and finds constructive solutions together with his/her counterparts
• Improve the design and development process by suggesting / using new, innovative concepts, materials, or manufacturing processes
• Manage direct reports, junior team members, and/or interns and apprentices in their daily work and ensure they meet deadlines and deliverables
• Transport information effectively in individual and group situations using the most appropriate and effective medium, such as, but not limited to, presentations, meetings, one-to-one situations
• Select content and use language and terminology appropriate to the audience
• Prepare concise presentations, briefings, and email that ensure the intent is consistently and correctly interpreted by recipients
• Convey messages verbally and visually in a clear, concise, and accurate way during meetings, telephone / video conferences such that interpretation is consistent and accurate, and need for clarification is minimal
• Present facts and factual information in a structured and non-ambiguous manner
• Receive and give feedback in a positive, constructive manner
• Convey conceptual information in a concrete and tangible manner
• Present designs, concepts, and seasonal stories to all levels of the organization and across various departments
• Work independently and perform a variety of tasks with different levels of complexity by developing effective plans and organizing work efficiently
• Meet design calendar deadlines and deliverables
• Participate conscientiously and with accountability in own, cross-department, and cross-function teams, and facilitate effective team outcomes

• Think and act in a goal-oriented manner, and prioritize and complete tasks in order of importance

• Bachelor’s degree in fashion or apparel design

• 8+ years of apparel design experience
• Advanced level in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop a plus
• Knowledge of garment construction, garment fit and costing
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills
• Presentation and Storytelling skills
• Prior management or mentoring of more junior designers a plus