Senior Apparel Designer, Snow

Your opportunity at Arc’teryx
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As the Senior Designer, Snow, you design advanced, comprehensive apparel 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 Snow product category, designing for the circular future we hope to inhabit, where nothing is left to waste. You bring your curiosity and passion for product to imagine and build innovative, relevant and resolved designs, continuously exceeding our guests’ evolving needs.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is expected to be performed on location. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Meet your future team:

The Snow category team creates innovative apparel solutions that solve for all aspects of snow activities. We are collaborative builders, innovative 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 for real functional challenges in outerwear.

• Collaborating with leadership and key stakeholders to establish and drive the vision and long-term design strategy for the Arc’teryx Snow product category
• 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 as we transition our snow product into circular builds
• Identifying and creating innovative performance or technology platforms that underpin product categories
• Collaborating with the Snow Athletes to identify key needs and solves for our existing products, and innovating on opportunities to be industry leaders in the Snow category
• 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, with emphasis on designing for repairability
• Collaborating with the Fit & Pattern team to resolve fit style and construction issues, and ensure a fully commercialized product
• Coordinating with the Raw Materials team to test new materials and ensure that necessary items are available for prototyping
• Collaborating closely with other Designers to create and bring new and better toolbox solutions that benefit the brand (such as new technologies, construction techniques, features, etc.)
• Collaborating with the Merchandising team and Design Directors on seasonal line plans and project resource planning
• Partnering with Product Development Managers to gain visibility into cost estimates, MOQs and LOM concerns throughout concepting and prototyping for seasonal products
• Collaborating with Design leadership and the People & Culture team to establish and retain Design talent

• Working closely with Design leadership and our Merchandising team to craft a strategic plan for Snow apparel at Arc’teryx
• Collaborating with various design activity 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

• You have a Degree in Design (Apparel, Industrial, etc.) or the equivalent experience, and a minimum of 8+ years’ hands-on experience designing relevant textile-based outerwear products, with 2+ years’ leading a team
• You are technically proficient with 8+ years’ experience using Adobe Illustrator, Gerber or the equivalent pattern software
• You have advanced knowledge in design, patterning, sewing, and taped garment construction, with advanced technical and creative skills to pattern and prototype new products, inclusive of Gore-Tex
• You are an excellent team player with the ability to take…