Description:
We are seeking a qualified and experienced Apparel Graphic Designer to join our collaborative team, preferably with a passion for soccer (football). This role focuses on performance apparel, requiring professionalism, excellent communication, and presentation skills. You will design original graphics for consumer products, selecting materials and techniques, and making modifications to ensure manufacturability. If you're ready to contribute your design expertise to a dynamic team, we'd love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
- Designs graphics for products that will be created and sold to consumers. Includes original concepts, selection of appropriate materials and techniques, and modifications to ensure manufacturability.
- Elevate the consumer experience through superior graphic design.
- Brings to life the seasonal category creative narrative through graphic design that is trend relevant to the category consumer.
- On key financial and statement models, uses exceptional design skills to create original, innovative concepts and designs that appropriately reflect client designs and applications.
- Leads design efforts within a category or product segment to create original graphic and/or textile concepts and designs that appropriately reflect design ethos and which lead the industry.
- Understands and applies new technologies that bring innovation to designs and applications.
- Effectively uses computerized systems in design process.
- Provides appropriate materials to designers, developers, account managers, and/ or graphic separators for creation of screen prints, embroidery, and trims. For textiles, produces textile repeats for production purposes.
- Communicates and presents design concepts; produces presentation materials in conjunction with design and category teams that effectively communicate the concept behind the line for internal and external audiences.
- Creates and delivers powerful presentations of seasonal design proposals.
- Maintains healthy cross-functional relationships and builds matrix relationships outside of immediate team.
- Participates in interviews and talent identification.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree.
- Acts as graphic lead for a category or product line.
- 3D with CLO and Illustrator, Keynote.
- Fosters strong cross-functional relationships within design and related functions.
- Uses Consumer-led insights to drive innovative design solutions.
- Maintains and continually expands upon expert knowledge of current trends, color, technology, and sports-related products through travel and research.
- Demonstrates expert understanding of products, product lines, product development process, and the specific markets in which the client does business.
- Provides design expertise for design team as needed outside of assigned product load.
- Creates the Visual Center for Silo or Product.
- Storytelling around concept or Athlete that influences the overall seasonal direction.
- Demonstrates leadership that influences process change. (Best practices, Calendar, Manufacturing process).
- Participates in forum with category consumers to deepen consumer insights for product classifications.
- Effectively uses design support.