Senior Designer, Inline Footwear Design

As a Brooks Running Senior Footwear Designer, Inline, you will create and innovate — elevate and influence the aesthetic readiness of Brooks Running footwear inline product with a strong point of view. Your experience will ensure the executional design balance between the most progressive and the most acceptable design application as part of a seasonal collection of Brooks Running footwear product.

You will use the creative foundation crafted beauty to create compelling footwear designs, constantly elevating the level of our crafted beauty foundation as a design reference of Brooks Running inline product while maintaining brand direction and appropriate aesthetic appeal for our target consumer. You will work in close cooperation with the Color – Material & Trend Design Team on the creation of our seasonal beauty, lead the implementation of our emotional storytelling of color, graphics, materials, finishes, and trends as part of the footwear pre‑season design process and the inline design process, and collaborate with the Advanced Design Team on the application of our advanced team design language future beauty.

You will implement best practices of 3D visual and technical tools, influencing your co‑workers to elevate their 3D and digital design tools and ensuring clear data‑influenced design solutions. You will provide clear communication to the Product Line Management Team, the Product Development Team, the Color & Trend team, and the Product Assessment Team, build relationships with material vendors and factories worldwide, and play an independent role as designer and design mentor within the whole footwear team to keep Brooks the most loved brand for runners worldwide.

• Own the full design of complex performance footwear revolutions by creating and presenting upper, midsole, and outsole sketches for inline product based on direction provided by crafted beauty briefs influenced by your design POV.
• Create identity principles to maximize perceived value in order to drive superior aesthetic competitiveness.
• Influence and elevate with design solutions the creative foundation of crafted beauty concerning 2D/3D creations with story, color, material, and finishes to grow the appeal of Brooks Running footwear.
• Explore the future of what 2D and 3D design can become and how new technology, tools, and design abilities can benefit performance run design far in the future.
• Create new methods to expand the possibilities of what products we create and how we can create them through using advanced 2D and 3D digital design tools.
• Influence the work of the Color & Trend Team to elevate the deeper integration of coloration thinking in product design.
• Drive the pre‑season product development to shape and inform templates for crafted beauty for the sequential inline season.
• Organize and deliver product design presentations, both physical and digital work, including exploratory process, using your evaluation, judgment, and interpretation to select the right course of action.
• Provide feedback and guidance to Associate Designers, Designer 1, and Designer 2.
• Respond thoughtfully and non‑defensively to design critique with multiple design solutions and influence others through key decisions, milestones, and timelines.
• Stay at the top of your game, learn what is cutting‑edge, and get involved in where 2D and 3D digital design technologies and tools are going. These will be key methods to influence others in your team.
• Drive design within a product creation team to deliver industry‑leading products and stories.
• Actively influence the collaborative work with the Advanced Design Team to move our products forward.
• Actively influence the 3D CAD Design Team to move our products forward — integrate 3D CAD tools in your design process.
• Influence the Color – Material & Trend Design Team to integrate seasonal color and trend concepts.
• Actively interact and influence various footwear team experts in Product Color & Trend, Product Materials, Product Development, Product Line Management, and Product Assessment. Utilize their reports to inform our design approach and assume a team lead role for the work group.
• Act as a design…