Senior Designer - Footwear Innovation (m/f/d)

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION 

Develop industry leading creative solutions for assigned concept or category, to create a highly relevant, desirable and distinct adidas brand image, to serve for athlete-led brand moments and system solutions for categories. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the creative development for concept or systems across multiple athlete and consumer touchpoints, from solution/product to the event or to category handover. 
• Develop concepts and creative strategies that fulfill objectives of category-/concept briefs. 
• Collaborate with Creative Direction and category to ensure holistic storytelling on product level. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer- and brand relevance on projects. 
• Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence to the event (consumer facing)/ to the category. 
• Direct variety of creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc.) on creative execution to ensure holistic creative excellence. 
• Review and approve production stages of creative execution. 
• Maximize results within given budget and timeframes. 
• Participate in creation of annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies. 
• Present and communicate creative solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders. 
• Identify opportunities of improvement and change and initiate own proposals/projects. 
• Seek out new design resources that can deliver world class results. 
• External creative resources (agencies, freelancers, photographers, etc.) 
• IT skills: Outlook, Miro, PowerPoint, Word, Excel  

Key Relationships

• Innovation Teams

• Business Units

• Global Operations

• Creative Direction

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Design skills: Sketching, 2D software (Illustrator/photoshop/…), 3D software (i.e Blender, Gravity Sketch, Rhino, …), 3D renders software (i.e. Blender, Keyshot, …), Scripting (grasshopper, AI generated imagery/3D, etc., …) 
• Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create relevant and  

Impactful Design Solutions

• Art direction of photoshoots, pre-press reviews and approvals. 
• Fluent in English (verbal and written).  

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• Under-graduate level design education or combination thereof 
• Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development  

Of Communication Tools

• At least 5 years of experience in sporting goods/fashion industry or design related industry on managerial level 
• Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, athlete interactions, pre-press processes) 
• Passion for adidas and its mission. 
• Passion for sports, culture, design