Director, Design Lead

4 weeks ago


St Louis, Missouri, United States Caleres Full time
Job Title: Director, Design

Caleres is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director, Design to lead our design team in creating innovative and stylish footwear products. As a key member of our product development team, you will be responsible for driving design direction, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of quality and style.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead design research and trend prediction for women's performance and sport lifestyle athletic footwear
  • Create trend/mood boards, color palettes, and design briefs through the Rykä brand lens
  • Guide designers throughout season on pattern, material, and color direction
  • Partner with development team to identify new opportunities for innovative constructions and pattern designs
  • Guide team to combine aesthetic design with performance functions
  • Own planning functions for design team, partner with USA and China based Product Development Leaders to ensure roadmaps for special projects are achievable and executed with in desired time-frame
  • Garner statistical observations, analyze consumer insights, sales data and forward trend forecasting to apply to merchandising the line
  • Managing development to line plan, advising recommendation to drive pockets of product opportunity
  • Pitch potential collaborations and co-branded partnerships
  • Lead product creation to successful on-brand execution
  • Lead line edit, curation, ranking product importance, deliver story-telling to aid sales and digital/marketing teams
  • Partner with Marketing and Digital teams to help inform editorial content for brand website and point of sale product education
  • Create and maintain digital presentations in Miro/PowerPoint
  • Present seasonal trends, new initiatives, and all product at seasonal Sales meetings and retailer trade shows
  • Assign self a small amount of design styles/constructions or projects per season
  • Plan and organize domestic market inspiration trips for design team twice a year
  • Attend industry trade shows 4 times a year for product presentations, as well as attend specific retailer meetings as needed
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in related field
  • 10+ years of Product experience in footwear industry preferred
  • 10+ years of total Retail/ Wholesale experience
  • Strong sketching ability
  • Experience leading trend and design research required
  • Expert level knowledge of footwear development, sourcing and manufacturing
  • Adobe/Microsoft system knowledge required


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