Brooks Running – Senior Designer, Innovation Footwear Design

Your Job:

As a Brooks Senior Designer, Innovation Footwear Designer, you will elevate design quality and create independent design solutions as a key leader in shaping the future of running footwear. You will deliver creative solutions to runner performance needs and elite athlete projects, while also influencing the AESTHETIC READINESS of Brooks Running inline footwear product.

You will create within a multidisciplinary innovation team focused on creating products that elevate athlete performance and fuel the future of the Brooks footwear pipeline. With your extensive experience, you will ensure the DESIGN VISION to translate early‑stage innovation concepts into next‑generation footwear platforms and product ideas, striking the balance between modern design and technical excellence.

As a Senior Designer, Innovation Footwear Design, you will apply and elevate the creative foundation CRAFTED BEAUTY – PERFORMANCE EXPRESSIONS to create compelling footwear product designs. You will design with empathy for Brooks ELITE ATHLETES and runners, deepening the connection to the runner’s experience across Fit, Feel, and Ride. Through thoughtful execution and iteration, you will lead the creation of next‑generation platforms, tools, and product ideas while maintaining brand direction and appropriate aesthetic appeal for a targeted consumer.

As a Senior Designer, Innovation Footwear Design, you will innovate shoe‑making methods and future manufacturing. You will influence across design functions the future color, graphic, material, and finishes in close cooperation with the Advanced Design & Research Team. In collaboration, you will ensure new concepts can be manufactured and delivered at scale whilst ensuring the integrity of the innovation.

As a Senior Designer, Innovation Footwear Design, your role will be pivotal to provide clear design communication to the Product Line Management Team, the Product Development Team, the Color & Trend team, and the Run Research Lab. You will establish and build relationships with material vendors and factories across the globe. With your advanced experience in designing footwear, you will play an independent role as designer and design mentor within the whole footwear team to ensure that Brooks is the most LOVED brand for runners worldwide.

DESIGN

• Own the design of complex performance footwear revolutions.
• Ensure that all product designs meet organizational standards of quality, leadership, function/technology, and project timelines from concept through go-to-market, where applicable.
• Apply identity principles to maximize perceived value in order to drive superior aesthetic competitiveness.
• Influence the work of the Color & Trend Team to elevate the deeper integration of coloration thinking in product design.
• Partner with 3D / Computational Designers to increase the fidelity of design concepts.
• Create and present upper, midsole, and outsole sketches and tooling blueprints for innovation product influenced by your design POV.
• Create independent design solutions based on innovation briefs/concepts and CRAFTED BEAUTY – PERFORMANCE EXPRESSIONS design direction with your POV on storytelling, color, material, and finishes to grow the appeal of Brooks Running footwear.
• Participate in innovation concept development to shape and inform next‑generation platforms and product ideas for the Brooks footwear pipeline.
• Organize and deliver product design presentations, both physical and digital, including exploratory process to reach final solution.
• Respond to design critique with multiple design solutions.

CROSS-TEAM COLLABORATION

• Drive design within a multidisciplinary innovation team to deliver industry-leading products and stories across both innovation and elite athlete projects, collaborating with cross-functional partners including Run Research Lab, Engineering, Development, Product Line, and Program & Process Management.
• Actively influence the collaborative work with the Advanced Design Team to ensure the successful implementation of innovation projects.
• Actively influence the 3D / Computational Design Team to increase the clarity of design concepts. Integrate 3D CAD…