Senior Designer - Innovation - Footwear (m/f/d)

<h2><em>Senior Designer</em></h2> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>PURPOSE &amp; OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION</p> <p> </p> <p>Develop industry leading creative solutions for assigned concept or category, to create a highly relevant, desirable and distinct adidas brand image, to serve for athlete lead brand moments and system solutions for categories.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Lead the creative development for concept or systems across multiple athlete and consumer touchpoints, from solution/product to the event or to category handover.</li> <li>Develop concepts and creative strategies that fulfill objectives of category-/concept briefs.</li> <li>Collaborate with Creative Direction and category to ensure holistic storytelling on product level.</li> <li>Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer- and brand relevance on projects.</li> <li>Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence to the event (consumer facing)/ to the category.</li> <li>Direct variety of creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc.) on creative execution to ensure holistic creative excellence.</li> <li>Review and approve production stages of creative execution.</li> <li>Maximize results within given budget and timeframes.</li> <li>Participate in creation of annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies.</li> <li>Present and communicate creative solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders.</li> <li>Identify opportunities of improvement and change and initiate own proposals/projects.</li> <li>Seek out new design resources that can deliver world class results.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>KEY RELATIONSHIPS</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Innovation Design (Directors, Senior Directors, VP)</li> <li>Business Units Design counterparts</li> <li>Cross-functional counterparts in Innovation for product and systems (concept, development, engineering, athlete science, …)</li> <li>Creative Direction organization</li> <li>External creative resources (agencies, freelancers, photographers, etc., …)</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES </p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>IT skills: Outlook, Miro, PowerPoint, Word, Excel </li> <li>Design skills: Sketching, 2D software (Illustrator/photoshop/…), 3D software (i.e Blender, Gravity Sketch, Rhino, …), 3D renders software (i.e. Blender, Keyshot, …), Scripting (grasshopper, AI generated imagery/3D, etc., …)</li> <li>Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create relevant and </li> </ul> <p>impactful Design solutions</p> <ul> <li>Art direction of photoshoots, pre-press reviews and approvals</li> <li>Language: English: excellent </li> <li>Another European language: fluent</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Under-graduate level design education or combination thereof</li> <li>Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development </li> </ul> <p>of communication tools</p> <ul> <li>At least 6-8 years’ experience in sporting goods/fashion industry or design related industry on managerial level</li> <li>Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, athlete interactions, pre-press processes)</li> <li>Passion for adidas and its mission.</li> <li>Passion for sports, culture, design</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>