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Senior Designer, Color, Material FInishes (CMF) Design, Footwear
Brooks RunningUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Apr 2025
💰 $198,739/yr($124,186/yr – $198,739/yr)
About the role
Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line. Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation. Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success: · Runner First We act in the best interest of the runner · Word is Bond We do what we say we’ll do · Champion Heart We give our all in everything we do · There is no “I” in RunWe stay generous with our humanity · Keep MovingWe find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic! We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement — because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.
Your Job: As Senior Designer, CMF Design, Footwear you will elevate and influence the EXECUTIONAL DESIGN BALANCE of color, material, finish aesthetic direction, utilizing strong design, product, and process knowledge toward footwear designs and seasonal inline projects. In this role, you will create the ideal balance between inspiring designs driven by consumer story and the performance nature of our running brand identity. You will produce color, material, and finish palettes, designs, and signature selections through your keen expertise and understanding of taste and style preferences of runners and consumers. You will be instrumental in stoking runner and consumer desire for our shoes through CMF design. In this role, you will use the creative foundation CRAFTED BEAUTY to identify and create design solutions to elevate and influence the possibilities of Brooks Running footwear, informing and underpinning seasonal design strategy and guiding the Footwear Design Team with your CMF concepts, and designs. Scope of design solutions will range from future material, trim, and treatment packages to the analysis, creation, and coloration of finite elements, details, finishes, paints, and branding executions for performance and aesthetic. As Senior Designer, CMF Design, you will be key in elevating footwear design, and creating clear, well-thought, data-influenced, forward-looking design solutions. You will work closely with fellow design leads in Color, Materials, Specialty Concepts, Visualization Innovation, and Inline, along with the larger Footwear Design Team. You will work collaboratively with key partners in Footwear Material Development, Product Development, and Product Line Management to execute pre-season, innovation and inline CMF deliverables based on product segmentation and specific upper textile directions, while maintaining brand direction, sustainability goals, and appropriate aesthetic appeal for our target consumer. You will establish and build relationships with material vendors and factories across the globe. With your advanced experience in designing footwear, you will play an independent role as designer and design mentor within the whole footwear team to ensure that Brooks is the most LOVED brand for runners worldwide.
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line. Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation. Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success: · Runner First We act in the best interest of the runner · Word is Bond We do what we say we’ll do · Champion Heart We give our all in everything we do · There is no “I” in RunWe stay generous with our humanity · Keep MovingWe find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic! We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement — because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.
Your Job: As Senior Designer, CMF Design, Footwear you will elevate and influence the EXECUTIONAL DESIGN BALANCE of color, material, finish aesthetic direction, utilizing strong design, product, and process knowledge toward footwear designs and seasonal inline projects. In this role, you will create the ideal balance between inspiring designs driven by consumer story and the performance nature of our running brand identity. You will produce color, material, and finish palettes, designs, and signature selections through your keen expertise and understanding of taste and style preferences of runners and consumers. You will be instrumental in stoking runner and consumer desire for our shoes through CMF design. In this role, you will use the creative foundation CRAFTED BEAUTY to identify and create design solutions to elevate and influence the possibilities of Brooks Running footwear, informing and underpinning seasonal design strategy and guiding the Footwear Design Team with your CMF concepts, and designs. Scope of design solutions will range from future material, trim, and treatment packages to the analysis, creation, and coloration of finite elements, details, finishes, paints, and branding executions for performance and aesthetic. As Senior Designer, CMF Design, you will be key in elevating footwear design, and creating clear, well-thought, data-influenced, forward-looking design solutions. You will work closely with fellow design leads in Color, Materials, Specialty Concepts, Visualization Innovation, and Inline, along with the larger Footwear Design Team. You will work collaboratively with key partners in Footwear Material Development, Product Development, and Product Line Management to execute pre-season, innovation and inline CMF deliverables based on product segmentation and specific upper textile directions, while maintaining brand direction, sustainability goals, and appropriate aesthetic appeal for our target consumer. You will establish and build relationships with material vendors and factories across the globe. With your advanced experience in designing footwear, you will play an independent role as designer and design mentor within the whole footwear team to ensure that Brooks is the most LOVED brand for runners worldwide.
Your Responsibilities:
- PRODUCT & DESIGN
- Be accountable to use and improve our Brooks Running performance-design ethos, discovering new ways to create beautiful, valuable, and deeply meaningful CMF designs.
- Research, prepare, and deliver concept direction to influence and support design direction with a focus on consumer storytelling, competitive landscape, product design, and CMF and graphic design.
- Own the creation of CMF designs and packages, and the creation of palettes, utilizing CMF renderings, visualizations ad tech-pack creations that meet project (pre-season, innovation, inline) objectives and further exploration, application, execution, and learnings.
- Partner with fellow design leads to support the evolution of overarching brand creative vision and seasonal design directions. Create new methods and tools that expand the possibilities of what and how we can create products.
- Drive strong collaboration with Footwear Design and Pre-Season Design teams on how CMF strategy, palettes, components, treatments, and designs ca
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