Senior Designer, RN FTW

Running Footwear Team Leader

Responsible for driving a creator culture to deliver against leading stories and product collections in the Running Footwear segment.

Be unapologetically consumer obsessed generating relevant stories and products that excite the China market.

Have a professional balanced approach to work within a dynamic and creative environment whilst balancing the need for operational excellence and speed to market.

Key Responsibilities:

Be a Consumer Obsession champion with a special emphasis on winning the China consumer

Extend RUNNING FTW strategy in the given segment and maintain connectivity to Germany HQ creatives to ensure a one brand consumer facing message

Advocate story telling throughout the design team and drive intuitive visual solutions in product concepts

Design concepts and products that maintain consumer advocacy whilst delivering against the product brief

Be a creator and an innovator always exploring fresh executions, materialization and color expression

Motivate + lead fellow designers on the journey to winning consumers and market share whilst adhering to the strategic vision articulated by management

Present stories and ideas cross functionally with effectiveness to gain consensus

Be responsible to drive team members and work within the constraints of close to market dynamics and speed

Key Relationships:

• Direct Design reports
• Product Marketing
• Product Development
• Global Design counterparts

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Have key insights into RUNNING FTW market landscape
• Solid experience in RUNNING FTW creation
• Strong communication skills to articulate concepts, ideation and collections seamlessly to various members of the organization
• Ability to excel and thrive in a team environment with a high level of diversity
• Deep knowledge of footwear creation process and how cross functional members contribute
• Ability to create leading propositions whilst also being a guru of commercializing trends with adidas codes
• Mature approach and ability to persuade, negotiate and compromise to produce win/win scenarios
• Knowledge of design, development and marketing processes with a passion for ideation sharing
• Intellectually curious and always seeking the new

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor or University Degree in industrial design or related educational experience and at least 7 years related work experience

Experience in RUNNING FTW totally new design with colors, materials and graphics experience being a preference

Cross functional expertise in addition to Design would be advantageous

IT: Superior experience in usage of all key design software and systems, expert in Design apps, software that are impactful to conveying ideation visually

Basic communication skills in English