Designer II, Innovation Footwear Design

Your Job

As a Brooks Designer II, Innovation Footwear Designer, you will execute with high design quality playing a key role in shaping the future of running footwear. You will drive innovation and elite athlete projects by delivering creative solutions to athlete‑driven performance needs. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary innovation team focused on creating products that elevate athlete performance and fuel the future of the Brooks footwear pipeline, while also delivering the aesthetic readiness of Brooks Running inline footwear product.

In this role, you will execute the design vision by collaborating with senior designers and cross‑functional partners to translate early‑stage innovation concepts into tangible footwear designs. You will design with empathy for Brooks elite athletes and runners, informing next‑generation platforms, tools, and product ideas through thoughtful execution and iteration. You will design within the creative foundation crafted beauty – performance expressions, to keep the connection to the runner’s experience across fit, feel, and ride, while maintaining brand direction and appropriate aesthetic appeal for a targeted consumer.

As a Designer II, Innovation Footwear Designer, you will partner closely with your teammates to bring idea and concept generation to support the innovation of shoe‑making methods and future manufacturing. In addition, you will work on projects in close partnership with the Advanced Research & Development Team ensuring that innovation concepts and solutions can be delivered at scale to our consumer whilst ensuring the integrity of the innovation.

As a Designer II, Innovation Footwear Designer, your role will deliver clear design communication to the Product Line Management Team, the Product Development Team, the Color & Trend team, and the Product Assessment Team. With your strong professional experience in designing footwear, you will play a supporting role within the footwear design team to ensure that Brooks is the most loved brand for runners worldwide.

• Create with high design quality key product designs of performance footwear by producing and presenting upper, midsole, and outsole sketches and tooling blueprints.
• Ensure that all product design meets organizational standards of quality, function/technology, and project timelines from concept through go‑to‑market – where it applies.
• Present 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.
• Partner with 3D / computational designers to increase the clarity and fidelity of design concepts.
• Deliver ideas and solutions answering the design brief, that potentially inform next‑generation platforms and product ideas for the Brooks footwear pipeline. Participate in design reviews and presentations, contributing thoughtful input and clearly communicating design intent.
• 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.
• Respond to design critique with multiple design solutions.

• Collaborate closely with senior designers, innovation teammates, and cross‑functional partners, including Run Research Lab, Engineering, Development, Product Line, and Product Operations Management.
• Partner and collaborate with the Advanced Design Team to ensure successful implementation of innovation projects.
• Collaborate with Inline Design and Color, Material & Trend teams to ensure strong alignment and integration of innovation product pipelines.
• Participate in innovation workshops, research activities, and prototype reviews, supporting the use of deep runner insights from the Run Research Lab.
• Learn from and seek mentorship from senior designers to continue developing technical and creative skills.
• Work closely with the development teams in Asia and our overseas production sites.

• Manage calendar/timelines/deadlines that result in a timely completion of each project.
• Use your design…