Senior Apparel Designer – Women’s Climb

Your opportunity at Arc’teryx  :
As a Senior Designer, you design advanced, comprehensive product solutions that are aligned with Arc’teryx design philosophies. In this highly technical role, you focus on establishing the long-term vision and design strategy for our Women’s Climb product category, across all disciplines of climb - from Ice, o Alpine and Rock. You bring your curiosity and passion for product to imagine and build innovative, relevant, and resolved designs.
Key Products You’ll Be Designing For:
Gore-Tex shells, Insulated Mid-Layers, Spring/Summer Rock and Climb essentials (tops and bottoms)
This role is based primarily out of our North Vancouver office and is open to occasional hybrid work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Meet your future team:
We create innovative apparel solutions that work for a variety of activities such as climbing, snow sports, hiking, and trail running. We are collaborative hands-on builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying future needs then build, test, and validate products that solve real functional challenges.
If you were in the Senior Designer role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
Collaborating with leadership and key stakeholders to establish and drive the vision and long-term design strategy for the Arc’teryx Climb product category
Leading and mentoring a small group of high performing Designers to create comprehensive design solutions to exceed end user expectations
Partnering directly with athletes on product evolutions, feedback insights and relationship building through using product use
Inspiring, empowering, and supporting a group of high performing Designers and Design Developers to create comprehensive design solutions to exceed end user expectations
Adhering to Arc’teryx Sustainability Design Principles while also contributing to future improvements
Identifying and creating innovative performance or technology platforms that underpin product categories
Driving the commercialization of innovative technologies, including materials, pattern/part shaping and construction techniques for existing and future product categories
Creating patterns, mockups, and prototypes to explore, resolve, or prove new concepts or construction techniques
Collaborating with the Fit & Pattern Team to resolve fit style and construction issues and ensure a fully commercialized product
Collaborating with the Materials team to brief, develop and test/validate new material concepts to bring to market
Collaborating closely with other Designers to create a wholistic product range as well as create consisting in construction and aesthetics across product categories
Collaborating with the Merchandising team and Design Directors on seasonal line plans and project resource planning
Assisting with current product design changes where necessary to address in-line production issues
Presenting at internal meetings, design reviews and seasonal stage gates, annual seasonal handoffs and other product meetings as required
Attending trade shows, company events as well as sourcing and development vendor visits as required
Partnering with Product Development to gain visibility into cost estimates, MOQs and LOM concerns throughout concepting and prototyping for seasonal products
Staying up to date with industry trends, collaborating with Arc’teryx athletes and other industry representatives to help ensure Arc’teryx is exceeding our guests’ evolving needs
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
Working closely with Design leadership and our Merchandising team to craft a strategic plan for Climb apparel at Arc’teryx
Collaborating with various design leaders to identify new product opportunities and propose product solutions
Working closely with our development teams and innovation partnerships to challenge and evolve the way we bring innovative ideas to production
Are you our next Senior Designer   You have a Degree in Design (Apparel, Industrial, etc.) or equivalent experience, and a minimum of 8+ years’ hands-on experience designing apparel, with 2+ years’…