Color Designer

Location: Beaverton, OR (4 days/week onsite)

The nature of the work is focused on the appearance of products, communications, or collateral materials.

• Plans and executes color designs. Collaborates with design, product marketing, development and material consultants to focus color solutions for market success.
• Reviews all samples to achieve marketable solution review with design, marketing and development.
• Clearly communicates all changes for final confirmation.
• Displays advanced knowledge and practices in all phases of product execution - shares knowledge with others.
• Maintains color calendar/timelines/deadlines for category/division resulting in the timely completion of each product.
• Develops line art, color design server, GPIN, merchandising line, cutting samples & working with material consultant to coordinate materials for products.
• Finalizes product details and proactively follows through on execution of color on each product.

• Creates innovative, retailable color solutions for category or gender-specific line.
• Researches and delivers color, design, market and lifestyle trends that influence and impact the product category process from product briefing to product concept to samples.
• Explores options and proposes with Color Design Managers and/or senior Color Designers a seasonal color strategy for products, line segments and initiatives.
• Creates seasonal category-specific direction of color, materials and graphics.
• In partnership with the Category and Design Director, creates and leads color merchandising strategies and stories seasonally.
• Knows the consumer. Displays in-depth understanding of consumer, brand-positioning needs as it relates to category/division. of consumer, brand-positioning needs as it relates to category/division.
• Utilizes knowledge of category/division consumer & their culture to improve product performance & appearance.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge about competitor products, consumer retail habits, color, and market trends.
• Applies insights from consumer perspective into color solutions.

• Presents and communicates category- specific color direction and color merchandising direction of the seasonal line to appropriate groups.
• Works with design/category to produce presentation materials that effectively communicate color direction related to the consumer, product concepts and creative strategy to internal audiences.
• Participates and delivers bi-annual category/divisional specific color needs for incorporation into footwear color committee preparation.

Develops excellence as a color designer. Together with Color Design Manager, advances the value of color to the Client by bringing a high level of functional expertise (i.e. materials, special effects, technology, advanced development, presentation, tools) to the color design organization.

• Educates and mentors more junior designers in category or color design organization. Undertakes projects and opportunities to enhance knowledge of the business, color, and design.

Typically requires a Bachelors Degree and minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience.

Note:

One of the following alternatives may be accepted:
PhD or Law + 3 yrs;
Masters + 4 yrs;
Associates degree + 6 yrs;
High School + 7 yrs.