Product Designer - Specialized

Apparel Designer – Basketball

Location:

Beaverton, OR (Onsite, 4/1 Hybrid) Duration: 7 Months

This position reports to the Design Director of Basketball Apparel and works alongside a team of designers dreaming up the future of basketball. The role requires developing and managing cross-functional relationships with Graphic & Color designers, Product Management & Merchandising, Material/Trim Development, Technical Development, and Sourcing teams, translating cultural, consumer & athlete insights and trends into performance & style-led product.

An apparel designer who blends style and performance through seasonal narratives that result in beautiful and functional product. A keen eye for design, creative thinking, problem solving, passion for apparel craft/innovation, and understanding of the basketball consumer and sport culture are critical traits. This role requires a distinct talent for responding to business objectives with creative design solutions that lead the market in both culture/style and performance, with expertise in men's & women's apparel design, fit, materials, and fashion.

We're looking for a candidate who is resilient, collaborative, and able to juggle fast-paced competing priorities, with strong visual and verbal communication skills, collaborative problem solving, deep emotional intelligence, process proficiencies, and thoroughness in executing detail-oriented design assets.

This Apparel Designer will help shape Women's & Men's, Branded & Signature apparel collections, playing a key part in bringing cohesive, performance-driven product to life each season through compelling narrative, material novelty, style & culture, and innovative performance craft — in collaboration with color and graphics design.
• Work closely with Apparel Design teammates and cross-functional partners to create the future of sport/culture across Basketball — from creative-strategy brainstorms to reviews of apparel, graphic, and color designs
• In-depth research on fashion, design, basketball, and sport culture
• Collaborate closely with a team of designers spanning graphics, color, and concept
• Translate trend, consumer insight, and brand vision into compelling product
• Upskill ways of working through programs such as Vizcom/CLO or craft through physical prototyping

An immediate team of 5, including apparel designers and graphic designers, with heavy cross-functional collaboration with PLMs, Technical Developers, and Materials Developers. Must-Have
• 8+ years of relevant work experience in a design environment working with materials, trims, design, and fit
• Outstanding foundational design skills, including illustration across analog and digital platforms
• Expertise in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Familiarity with 3D rendering software (CLO, Vizcom)
• Compelling portfolio demonstrating insight-driven design, concept/narrative development, problem-solving, and polished execution of women's and men's performance & style apparel product (required with submission)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with proven success collaborating across cross-functional teams and presenting concepts to stakeholders

Nice-To-Have
• Miro experience
• Demonstrated creative agility, positive attitude, self-awareness, and ability to manage competing priorities of varying complexity through ambiguity to completion

Bachelor's Degree in Apparel/Fashion Design or related field preferred, not a hard requirement — will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training