Senior Innovation Manager, Global Footwear Design

Your opportunity at Arc’teryx:

As a Senior Innovation Manager, Global Footwear Design, you partner cross-functionally to support centralizing Footwear innovation work as a representative of Footwear Design. You create and coordinate design work for advanced Footwear projects, overseeing timelines and roadmaps to support cross-functional inline partners and to deliver specific method, product, performance and experience innovations. You contribute to the design creative direction for Arc’teryx Footwear, across platforms, products, and projects that enable the mountain athlete.

You create new space in technical footwear solutions; driving innovation, sustainability, and articulating the collective Footwear Design vision that exceeds our athlete’s evolving needs.

This role is based out of our Portland office and is expected to be performed on site.

Meet your future team:

The Arc’teryx Footwear team creates innovative, beautiful product that exceeds the core mountain athlete’s needs in the outdoors. We are builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying our athlete’s needs then build, test, and validate products that solve for real functional challenges. We are a passionate collective with a focus on collaborative teamwork and our vision is to redefine the industry.

• Acting as the central point of contact to stakeholders, you are a creator, collaborator, and conduit for Footwear Design between Development, Merchandising, Advanced Concepts, Suppliers, Consultants, and Inline Footwear to drive and advance technical solutions and innovation platforms that enable the global footwear design vision, shaping the strategic direction to deliver excellence
• Contributing to the strategic innovation deliverables and direction within Footwear Design, collaborating cross functionally from ideation through to commercialization
• Partnering with the Product Creation and Development and the Merchandising team to shape and transition innovation projects, platforms, and briefs, ensuring design intent is carries through from concept to execution
• Representing the design vision while collaborating with the Product Creation and Development teams to deliver innovative solutions, technologies, platforms, and construction methods, in‑line with Arc’teryx design values
• Liaising and cross‑functionally collaborating as the conduit between in‑house and external design partners, connecting the team and projects to the right people and resources to bring ideas to life; overseeing the planning, implementation and tracking of specific projects, coordinating the efforts of multi‑disciplinary teams
• Participating cross‑functionally in broader organizational Footwear strategy and planning, ideating beyond the footwear category into other product types
• Collaborating with leadership within the Design and Product Creation and Development teams to align product strategy with the design vision, ensuring continuing across the broader triad priorities
• Delivering innovative solutions and platforms on time, with required readiness levels, to either the inline team or commercialized projects within market
• Collaborating with the Advanced Concepts team to align work streams, resources, knowledge, and strategy to participate in a brand perspective of innovation
• Collaborating with senior Design leadership to identify and strategize against resource gaps and opportunities to optimize Design
• Traveling globally to research athlete and consumer foresight, manufacturing innovations and innovative suppliers (as required)
• Participating in brand activities, and attending industry events
• Travelling to other Arc’teryx creation centers to build partnership (required)

• Contributing to a collective of talented footwear experts to drive the business forward as the category grows
• Leading parts of the Footwear design approach, from vision to strategy and execution
• Leading and empowering the product Design team…