Design Director

4 weeks ago

Los Angeles, California, United States adidas Full time
Job Description

Job Title: Design Director

Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Design Director to lead our design team in creating innovative and industry-leading design solutions. The successful candidate will have a strong passion for sports, culture, and design, with excellent communication and influencing skills.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop Seasonal Design Direction: Develop the seasonal direction of the design according to market trends and overall design direction, ensuring consistency throughout products and ranges.
  • Lead Design Team: Lead and establish a team of Senior Design Leaders and Partners, maintaining and nurturing the design, material, and color direction with the design team, development, marketing, and the consumer.
  • Influence Design Teams: Influence both design teams developing current and future product initiatives across key categories based on direction from Senior Design Leaders and Partners.
  • Steer Conceptualization Process: Steer and drive the conceptualization process, managing a team towards objectives and implementing process changes.
  • Coach Team Members: Steer and coach team members and their creative processes, driving development of direct reports.
  • Present Strategies: Verbally present strategies with clarity and expertise, disseminating design strategy into design teams and x-functional teams.
  • Create Presentations: Create professional-level presentations of ideas, from loose sketches to detailed renderings to digital presentations.
  • Ensure Efficient Processes: Ensure efficient processes and communication between external and internal teams.

Key Relationships:

  • Product Marketing: Product marketing, go-to-market, and brand communications teams.
  • Development: Development teams.
  • Culture, Collaborations & Partnerships Design Teams: Culture, collaborations, and partnerships design teams, wider originals basketball and partnerships design teams.
  • Adidas Brand Design Teams: Adidas brand design teams.
  • External Creative Partners: External creative partners.
  • Partner: Partner.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Design Software: Knowledge and use of Macintosh computer design software/systems (Photoshop, Illustrator, 3D rendering programs).
  • Passion for Sports, Culture, Design: Passion for sports, culture, and design.
  • Excellent Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills.
  • Strong Influencing Skills: Strong influencing skills.
  • High Level of Initiative & Maturity: High level of initiative and maturity.
  • Ability to Inspire, Think Creatively and Strategically: Ability to inspire, think creatively and strategically, as well as to act tactically.
  • Problem Solving Attitude & Can-Do Personality: Problem-solving attitude and can-do personality, proven ability to find avenues to success in the face of challenges.
  • Fluent in English: Fluent in English (spoken and written).
  • Lead Teams Across Multiple Locations: Lead teams across multiple locations, build and manage hybrid teams, including external creative resources.

Requisite Education and Experience:

  • Undergraduate Level Design Education: Undergraduate level design education or combination thereof.
  • Solid Education and Advanced Experience: Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development of communication tools.
  • At Least 10 Years' Design Experience: At least 10 years' design experience in sporting goods/fashion industry on managerial level.
  • 3 Years Personnel Management Experience: 3 years personnel management experience.
  • Prior Direct Footwear Design Experience: Prior direct footwear design and collaboration/partnerships experience.
  • Proven Experience with Entire Design Process: Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, pre-press processes).
  • Passion for Adidas: Passion for adidas and its mission.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Adidas:

At adidas, we champion individual uniqueness and cultivate a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best. We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.

Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage: Robust and progressive medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage.
  • Adoption, Surrogate, and Fertility Support: Adoption, surrogate, and fertility support.
  • Short and Long-Term Disability: Short and long-term disability.
  • Basic Life and AD&D Insurance: Basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage.
  • 401k Plan and Stock Purchase Plan: Employees are able to enroll in adidas' 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match.
  • Education Assistance: Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance.
  • Generous Leave Policies: Full-time employees are eligible for generous leave policies, including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Annual Bonus: Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.
  • Flexible Time Off: Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day, increasing with years of service, eleven paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and service time off during milestone years.

Anticipated Base Pay Range: The anticipated low and high end of the base pay range for this position is $185,000 to $212,750. Actual salary will be based on various factors, such as a candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and competencies, proficiency for the role.

Equal Opportunity Employer: adidas is an equal opportunity employer and will consider requests for accommodation in accordance with all relevant laws.

Hybrid Work Environment: We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote. The working location of this position is Los Angeles, CA. Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.

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