Assistant 3D Generalist

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

 

Assist and support the process for the creation of virtual prototypes based on development data for footwear and apparel products. Partnering with IT and business partners to define a robust product backlog, managing capability expansion increments and supporting the the development of best practice definitions are a few examples of the activities that will be expected from this role.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Support the development of virtual product creation workflows by working together with business and IT teams
• Represent the business views for virtual product creation, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that their views and requirements are captured in the backlog
• Support the creation of training documentation for virtual product creation
• Act as main connection between business and IT teams to ensure understanding of processes involved in virtual product creation
• Assist in the refinement of virtual product creation backlog itmes to ensure that the product team is delivering the right enhancements to support business needs
• Work together with business teams to organise and manage the 3D and 2D product data for an efficient visualisation workflow
• Keep track of work progress and virtual product creation workflow status for key milestones and report it to major stakeholders involved
• Check data quality all along the virtual creation process and support all required steps for data improvements
• Take over the responsibility for key steps within the visualization process workflow development, and ensure key business interests of the digital strategy are pursued
• Support the visualization process by managing important process steps such as prepare 3D data, refine 3D data for visualization, refine 2D graphics data, etc.
• Help to create and enable the required data libraries for digital materials that are needed for a lean process of virtual product creation
• Support the optimization of workflow efficiency by a close teamwork with the scope managers for sake of speed and quality in virtual product creation

 

Key Relationships:

 

• Creation Center teams (Design, Marketing, Product Operations)
• GOPS Strategy & Programs
• Digital Brand Solutions
• Global IT
• Global Sourcing
• T1/T2 Factories

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

 

• 2D, 3D Software Application experience (Blender, Rhino preferred)
• Motivation to learn about new processes within a digital product creation process
• Solutions-oriented approach and entrepreneurial mindset
• Computer literacy (Python Programming desired)
• Ability to use graphics applications or desktop publishing (Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator etc)
• Fluent in English, German or other second language an advantage
• Motivation to learn about new prototyping processes within an industrial product creation process

 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

 

• Four-year college or university degree or 2 years of work experience or technical education in multimedia art, media informatics, CAD, industrial design and/ or computer graphics.