Sr. Designer, Supervisor Footwear Innovation

Sr. Designer, Supervisor Footwear Innovation

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The ASICS Creation Center, LLC is ASICS Corporation’s product creation office based in Boston, MA. This organization's focus is on taking innovation and product creations to new heights. The team sits across the following areas:
Innovation, Performance Running, Sportstyle and Core Performance Sports.

At ASICS, our Sound Mind, Sound Body™ philosophy is more than a tagline, it’s our way of life. Over 75 years ago our founder, Kihachiro Onitsuka, saw that sport and movement had the power to lift spirits, project positivity, and propel people and whole communities forward.

ASICS provides a diverse and inclusive culture that enables learning, growth, and opportunity at all levels. Our robust employee benefits allow for real work-life balance and a strong sense of community. We empower our employees to pursue their career goals. If this sounds like you, then we want you on our team.

POSITION SUMMARY: We are looking for a passionate innovator, to help create industry-leading innovative performance footwear designs and bring them from concept to reality.

The Senior Designer, Supervisor Footwear Innovation, collaborates with the Innovation team to research, ideate, and develop new performance footwear technology solutions while ensuring alignment with organizational processes. This person will create a vision for the future of ASICS performance footwear design and create prototypes, presentations and communication tools to facilitate the making, developments and testing, and the successful adoption of innovations in the in-line categories.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This person has one supervisory responsibility.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Influence, support and execute the global footwear innovation strategy, identifying and driving key design opportunities linked to consumer, enterprise and business goals.
• Lead design exploration for innovation projects.
• Lead and drive innovation partnerships beyond the design function (Marketing, Engineering, Development, etc.)
• Push the boundaries of design language, materials, and form while maintaining functional performance and manufacturability.
• Connect with the consumer, internal wear testing, and internal sports research lab, to gather insights and use these to ideate and conceptualize new high performance footwear constructions and technologies.
• Creates sketches, rough prototypes, detailed tech packs, CAD files, and presentations to convey concept intents and works with development counterparts to provide necessary information to make and test them.
• Utilize knowledge of footwear, design, human performance, and manufacturing to propose new ways to look at our standards and develop new perspectives and the typical high performance footwear problems.
• Adhere to footwear innovation go-to-market deadlines, including innovation reviews and mainline design reviews.
• Articulate important project updates and complex information to stakeholders effectively.
• Ensure cross-functional partners have up-to-date information on each project and facilitate effective collaborations.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Deep understanding of footwear design, construction and production.
• Highly creative, curious, and passionate about innovation. Ability to work through and manage ambiguity.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Strong sketching and ideation skills.
• Strong 2D cad and tech packaging skills.
• 3D modeling, rendering, and 3D printing skills are a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with sustainable design and manufacturing are a plus.
• Integrates handcraft and making as part of the creative process.
• Familiar with footwear product manufacturing processes including materials/fabrics, molding, etc.
• Proficient with Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Strong verbal written and communication…