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

Creative Development Leader

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-led brand moments and system solutions for categories.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the creative development for concept or systems across multiple athlete and consumer touchpoints, from solution/product to the event or to category handover.
• Develop concepts and creative strategies that fulfill objectives of category-/concept briefs.
• Collaborate with Creative Direction and category to ensure holistic storytelling on product level.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer- and brand relevance on projects.
• Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence to the event (consumer facing)/ to the category.
• Direct variety of creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc.) on creative execution to ensure holistic creative excellence.
• Review and approve production stages of creative execution.
• Maximize results within given budget and timeframes.
• Participate in creation of annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies.
• Present and communicate creative solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities of improvement and change and initiate own proposals/projects.
• Seek out new design resources that can deliver world class results.

Key Relationships:

• Innovation Teams
• Business Units
• Global Operations
• Creative Direction
• External creative resources (agencies, freelancers, photographers, etc.)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• IT skills: Outlook, Miro, PowerPoint, Word, Excel
• 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., …)
• Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create relevant and impactful Design solutions
• Art direction of photoshoots, pre-press reviews and approvals.
• Fluent in English (verbal and written).

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Under-graduate level design education or combination thereof
• Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development of communication tools
• At least 5 years of experience in sporting goods/fashion industry or design related industry on managerial level
• Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, athlete interactions, pre-press processes)
• Passion for adidas and its mission.
• Passion for sports, culture, design