Footwear Designer

Who We Are

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—The Comfort Technology Company—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

The Footwear Designer will integrate their thorough understanding of fashion trends, market conditions, consumer expectations, technologies and the manufacturing process with their design excellence to develop the next generations of SKECHERS USA footwear products. They will influence the respective categories and cultural events knowledge and experience relating to how the current and upcoming fashion trends might influence the consumers’ buying decisions, covering a vast demographic and multi-cultural area.

In addition, they'll use their knowledge in respect to design, development and market relevance to collaborate with marketing and sales personnel on projects to maximize effectiveness and sale-ability.

• Create innovative and affordable footwear design concepts.
• Work with design management, development and marketing personnel to collaborate on design projects to maximize effectiveness and build product to target cost.
• Understand fashion trends and directions through travel, shop the markets, trade shows and researching the competition.
• Create accurate CADs quickly and efficiently.
• Build and present seasonal product strategies and trend boards.
• Understand how to create accurate tech packs for outsole and upper designs.
• Understand how to draw cross sections and read blueprints accurately.
• Maintain constant interaction with merchandisers on all aspects of product line plans, briefs, color palette, pricing, themes, graphics, and strategies.
• Work with developers in US and Asia on line schedules, adhere to the product calendar, ensuring development projects are on track.
• Coordinate and develop new materials, constructions, processes and procedures with developers and materials team.
• Ensure prototypes and samples reflect the concept and design you created.
• Have knowledge of competitors' top sellers, technologies, styling, colors, strategies and pricing.
• Drive innovation through fashion-forward new designs and technologies.
• Protect and enhance SKECHERS DNA.
• Travel periodically to Asia to follow up on development projects.

• Ability to sketch shoes accurately and proportionately and provide detailed specifications.
• Understanding of footwear production process at the factory level.
• Advanced skills in Photoshop, Illustrator and 3-D design programs.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to work well with others.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Footwear Design, Fashion Design, or Graphic Design.
• Minimum 4-6 years of progressive shoe-designing experience and knowledge of shoe constructions and materials.

The pay range for this position is $130,000-$150,000 per year USD.

Skechers, a global Fortune 500 company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.

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To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.