Senior Apparel Design Developer - Tokyo Creation Center; TCC

Position: Senior Apparel Design Developer - Tokyo Creation Center (TCC)
Your opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As Senior Apparel Design Developer, you bring your curiosity to find creative solutions for a better way to innovate product for the mountain athlete. You are a passionate builder, responsible for creating concepts that inspire discovery and experimentation. You anchor and resolve practices and process between the design intention and the factory output. In close collaboration with cross functional teams, you manage progress from conception through to a scalable proof of concept.

Key Products You’ll Be Designing For:

Focus on Men’s and Women’s products

Designing pants, woven garments and gore styles

In this role, you’ll work onsite out of our Tokyo Creation Center satellite office, and you’ll partner of our North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Headquarters.

Meet your future team:
You will be joining a Design Team that creates innovative, beautiful product, that exceeds the core mountain athlete’s needs in the outdoors. The Tokyo Creation Centre is a ground-up, entrepreneurial undertaking that will accelerate our business, elevate our product and define the next chapter of the Arc’teryx brand. Our team prioritizes passion, flexibility, and a connection to the Tokyo creative community through design, and a start-up mentality is the key to the success of this new endeavor.

Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying future needs, then build, test, and validate products that solve for real functional challenges. We are innovative problem solvers with a focus on collaborative teamwork.

If you were the Senior Apparel Design Developer now, here are some of the core activities you would be responsible for:

Working with the designers to evolve their initial vision, either verbal or illustrated, and bringing them to life through new construction processes, techniques and manufacturing solutions that meet Arc’teryx requirements

Mentoring and sharing your depth of knowledge with the Design Developer 1 and the overall TCC Design team

Collaborating with Designers, Pattern Makers, and Product Developers to document and communicate new construction processes, techniques and manufacturing solutions that meet Arc’teryx requirements

Building partial or complete concept prototypes to allow solutions to be tested, reviewed, and validated

Working closely with our Pattern Making, Product Development, Fit & Pattern and Engineering teams to validate and implement new fit/pattern standards

Testing various materials to assess suitability for various construction techniques and end uses, providing recommendations on final selection as well as diligently documenting information and results throughout the process

Providing guidance to the Sample and Design teams and responding to problems as they arise

Helping to develop proprietary solutions with unique intellectual properties

Attending trade shows, company events, sourcing and development vendor visits and spending time at our Vancouver, BC Headquarters as required

Supporting in compilation of project scope, activities, and expenditures, of projects deemed eligible for submission to funding programs (SR&ED, IRAP, NRC, MITACS, and so forth)

Contributing to the future of Arc’teryx product circularity initiatives and goals

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

Building full product concepts for athletes to test under extreme conditions

Contributing to future circular products

Testing and validating new materials/constructions to ensure they last the lifetime of the product, while focusing on performance

Are you our next Senior Apparel Design Developer?

You have a diploma or degree in Fashion Design, Industrial Design or the equivalent experience with 7+ years’ experience working in a technical design/product construction environment, with 2+ years’ experience leading a team

You are able to effectively communicate in English, in both written and verbal communications

You have a deep understanding of the APAC athlete – both from a product and use‑case perspective

You have previous pattern making experience, particularly CAD experience with Gerber, Clo3D, or the equivalent 3D software

You are an expert level sewer,…