Sr. Manager, Color Design - HOKA Lifestyle Footwear

This role leads the long-term colour vision for HOKA Lifestyle Footwear, ensuring seasonal relevance, athlete credibility and commercial impact. It sits at the intersection of design, product, brand and merchandising, elevating colour as a strategic tool that drives emotion, storytelling and brand differentiation. The post holder pushes newness in lifestyle product, explores bold ideas and translates insights into meaningful solutions, bringing clarity, craft and momentum to the design process from concept to final product.

• Lead colour design on lifestyle category priority projects, building dynamic colour tools and strategies.
• Develop seasonal colour palettes that deliver the HOKA Footwear experience and inspire consumers globally.
• Work against seasonal project briefs, annual franchise concepts and long-term design strategies.
• Explore "blue sky" opportunities that champion the spirit of HOKA as a tinkerer, challenger and creator.
• Collaborate with business partners to deliver colour that accelerates the business.
• Partner with design functions to build products, seasonal strategies and long-term concepts with a holistic point of view.
• Manage multiple creation calendars for seasonal Inline, collaboration and SMU design projects.
• Set colour direction for projects and categories and contribute to the annual and seasonal Creative Vision.
• Mentor the design team in developing consumer and market acumen.
• Attend seasonal kickoff and participate in design travel and inspiration planning.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in industrial design, product design or a related field.
• 8+ years' experience in colour design.
• Expert knowledge of colour theory and regional and global trends.
• Advanced understanding of footwear material, construction and process.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Miro or Lucid.
• Expertise in leading generative AI platforms (e.g. Midjourney, Vizcom).
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with a track record of building and mentoring creative teams.
• A portfolio showcasing macro trend insights, colour design direction, creative excellence and the application of footwear colour.
• Promotes healthy dialogue, values all opinions and displays humility.
• Collaborates and builds relationships across the organisation.
• Demonstrates agility and inspires a vision for change.
• Holds self and others accountable for achieving results while role-modelling company values.
• Empowers decision-makers and upholds decisions once made.
• Finds ways to achieve financial and ESG goals simultaneously.
• Keeps the team motivated by providing opportunities to contribute to society.

• Experience in lifestyle footwear.

• In office.

• Competitive pay and bonuses, with a variety of compensation programmes designed to foster career development, reward success and show employees they are valued.
• Financial planning and wellbeing support, providing ways to protect income, pay for expenses and invest in the future.
• Time away from work, with plans supporting employees' needs to spend time with family, focus on health or recharge.
• Extras, discounts and perks, including generous discounts and community-based programmes.
• Growth and development, with extensive opportunities and support for personal and professional development.
• Health and wellness programmes and offerings designed to support a healthy lifestyle at work and at play.

Deckers Brands works to a promise it calls Together, Every Step: that every employee can bring their authentic self to work and is valued and supported as a whole person, at work and beyond. The company states that this promise underpins how it delivers business results, experiences an amazing place to work and has a positive impact on the communities and world around it.

Deckers Brands says it celebrates diversity of background, experience and identity and is committed to ensuring an inclusive and equitable workplace where all employees can Come as They Are, believing that bringing different perspectives to work makes the organisation truly Better Together.