Footwear Designer II - Special Projects

At OOFOS, our mission is to make people feel good through our proprietary OOfoam™ technology and innovative footbed design, company culture, and community initiatives. We prioritize empathy, inclusivity, and creativity, leaving a lasting sense of WOW! We are committed to providing exceptional experiences for both our customers and employees, fostering a trusted and inclusive environment. You’ll have the autonomy and flexibility to develop your career and contribute to our innovative products, that enable people to live life in ultimate comfort.

We are seeking a Footwear Designer II - Special Projects to advance our agile, fast-to-market initiatives, with a primary focus on high profile brand collaborations, close-to-market products, and off-inline calendar projects.

In this role, you will work outside the traditional seasonal development cadence, transforming consumer insights, cultural trends, and partner briefs into compelling, commercially relevant product. Using existing tooling and key OOFOS silhouettes, you will create elevated color, material, finish (CMF), and graphic executions designed for rapid development and commercialization. This role combines speed, cultural awareness, creative storytelling, and strong technical execution, partnering closely with Product Management, Development, Marketing, vendors, factories, and external partners to bring timely, differentiated concepts to market while maintaining the OOFOS brand aesthetic, quality, and commitment to comfort.

• Quick-Turn Design Execution: Design for off-calendar and close-to-market initiatives using rapid-turn material stories, trend-driven colorways, and custom graphic treatments on existing tooling models. Translate consumer insights, trend research, and brand strategy into compelling, commercially viable product concepts that elevate the OOFOS brand.
• Collaboration & Special Projects: Design elevated material, color, and finish (CMF) packages for brand, retail, and influencer partnerships. Translate partner brand identities into unique graphic treatments, print applications, and surface embellishments that enhance the OOFOS aesthetic while maintaining the brand's focus on comfort and design.
• Agile Tech Pack Delivery: Create precise, execution-ready graphic, color, and material tech packs optimized for fast-track production and quick factory turnarounds. Partner with Development and factories to ensure design intent, quality, materials, colors, and graphic applications are executed accurately.
• Material & Surface Innovation: Apply innovative textiles, prints, treatments, and graphic techniques that can be applied rapidly to existing products. Partner with Development and Innovation to explore new materials, constructions, and surface applications that differentiate and elevate OOFOS.
• Cross-Functional & Partner Alignment: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Development, Marketing, Graphic/Materials vendors, factories, and external partners to maintain fast-track schedules without compromising quality. Support product reviews and presentations to effectively communicate design concepts and recommendations to internal stakeholders.
• Cultural & Trend Scouting: Continuously monitor street culture, fashion, graphic design trends, consumer insights, global footwear trends, and competitive quick-strike releases to identify immediate white-space opportunities and inform design direction and brand differentiation.

• Experience: 4+ years of footwear design experience, with a strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in rapid-turn projects, advanced CMF execution, graphic application, or collaboration products, and footwear design from concept through execution.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Footwear Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Product Design, or related field.
• Technical & Visualization
  
  Skills:
  
  Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop) with a deep focus on pattern design, print application, and color theory. Excellent sketching, visualization, and storytelling skills required.
  3D visualization (Rhino, Blender, or similar), PowerPoint, and AI driven rendering proficiencies are a plus.
• Footwear, Material & Graphic Expertise: Strong knowledge of footwear materials, manufacturing processes, textile construction, print/dye methods, graphic application techniques (e.g., screen print, sublimation, heat transfers, molded graphics), and color-matching processes. Shoemaking experience preferred.…