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

TN Germany; Herzogenaurach; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading company in Herzogenaurach seeks a Senior Designer to develop innovative creative solutions that enhance the brand image. You will lead projects from concept to execution, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure impactful results. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in design, excellent communication skills, and a strong background in the sporting goods or fashion industry.

Qualifikationen

• At least 6-8 years of experience in the sporting goods/fashion industry.
• Experience in art direction of photoshoots and pre-press reviews.

Aufgaben

• Lead the creative development for concepts across multiple touchpoints.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure consumer and brand relevance.
• Direct various creative resources for holistic execution.

Kenntnisse

Sketching

2D software

3D software

Scripting

Strong visual skills

Strong verbal skills

Ausbildung

Undergraduate-level design education

Tools

Illustrator

Photoshop

Blender

Gravity Sketch

Rhino

Keyshot

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11.05.2025

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25.06.2025

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Job Description:

Senior Designer

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

Develop industry-leading creative solutions for assigned concepts or categories to create a highly relevant, desirable, and distinct adidas brand image. These solutions should serve athlete-led brand moments and system solutions for categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the creative development for concepts or systems across multiple athlete and consumer touchpoints, from solution/product to the event or category handover.
• Develop concepts and creative strategies that fulfill objectives of category/concept briefs.
• Collaborate with Creative Direction and category teams to ensure holistic storytelling on the product level.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure consumer and brand relevance on projects.
• Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end-to-end creative excellence for events and categories.
• Direct various creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc.) to ensure holistic creative execution.
• Review and approve production stages of creative work.
• Maximize results within given budgets and timeframes.
• Participate in creating annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies.
• Present and communicate creative solutions clearly, effectively selling ideas to stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and initiate proposals or projects.
• Seek new design resources capable of delivering world-class results.

Key Relationships

• Design counterparts in Business Units
• Cross-functional teams in Innovation related to product and systems (concept, development, engineering, athlete science, etc.)
• Creative Direction organization

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Design skills: Sketching, 2D software (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.), 3D software (Blender, Gravity Sketch, Rhino, etc.), 3D rendering software (Keyshot, Blender, etc.), Scripting (Grasshopper, AI-generated imagery/3D, etc.)
• Strong visual and verbal skills to create relevant and impactful design solutions.

Experience in art direction of photoshoots, pre-press reviews, and approvals.

• Fluent in at least one other European language.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• Undergraduate-level design education or equivalent.
• Solid education and advanced experience in creative development of communication tools.

• At least 6-8 years of experience in the sporting goods/fashion industry or a related design industry at a managerial level.
• Proven experience with the entire design process, including project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution, athlete interactions, and pre-press processes.