Senior Footwear Cost Engineer

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX

As our Senior Footwear Cost Engineer you will ensure every product meets the high performance and quality standards that our athletes deserve, while ensuring we hit or exceed our margin targets. You will be an integral member of our product creation team, influence the creation and manufacturing of all new models by ensuring margin and FOB targets are set at the beginning of the product creation process, reviewing cost breakdown sheets at each critical date, and providing suggestions accordingly.

You will collaborate with your Arc’teryx, Tier 1 and Tier 2 counterparts in Asia to optimize manufacturing costs, and work with our Sourcing and Materials team to ensure our sourcing strategy and financial targets are aligned. You will create “cheat sheets” and other “self‑service” tools and ensure critical steps in our costing process are aligned with our corporate calendar.

This role is based out of our Portland office. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US.

Our Product Creation Development team is a dynamic group spread across the globe. It sits within our Supply Chain organization and is a center of excellence partner with our Footwear Business Unit. The Arc’teryx Footwear team creates innovative, aesthetically striking product that exceeds the core mountain athlete’s outdoors needs across climbing, hiking, and trail running categories. We are builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts.

Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying our athlete’s future 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.

• Ensure teams set model‑level FOB targets at the beginning of the season.
• Review CBDs at each critical stage of the product creation process.
• Provide suggestions on all models to improve margin.
• Collaborate with Materials Design and Development to align upper materials strategy with costing targets.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams in Portland and Asia to ensure quoted labor and overhead costs are in line with expectations.
• Foster deep, collaborative partnerships with Tier 1 and Tier 2 partners to ensure Arc’teryx’s standards and processes are agreed upon and followed.
• Leverage functional expertise to educate, coach and mentor others.
• Continuously learn and monitor processes in manufacturing to search for efficiency improvement opportunities.
• Develop and/or identify costing tools and processes needed to lead us into the digital future.
• Coach and mentor our full product creation team.
• Evolve our costing processes to position for the next phase of growth.

• You have at least five years’ experience in cost engineering in the footwear industry, ideally with exposure to manufacturing environments in Asia.
• You can independently provide suggestions and ideas for improving margins.
• You have strong influencing skills, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse cross‑functional stakeholders.
• You set a clear vision, align your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to these objectives.
• You have basic knowledge of footwear construction, foams and rubbers, manufacturing, and materials.
• You have excellent communication skills – interpersonal, written and verbal.
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions.
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity.
• You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration.
• You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions.

Most new team members join between the start and midpoint of the range, where you can contribute right away while continuing to grow your craft, collaborations, and impact at Arc’teryx. This range reflects market alignment and the scope of the role. Individual pay is determined by your skills, experience, and level of responsibility.

We’re committed to fair, equitable, and competitive pay, reviewed regularly to ensure internal alignment and market relevance. Transparency is part of how we follow through on our…