Color Designer

Job Title: Color Design 3
Location: Beaverton, OR (hybrid)
Duration: 12+ Months

Job Description:
The nature of the work is focused on the appearance of the product, communications, or collateral materials.

Color Design Execution:

• Plans and execute color designs. Collaborates with design, product marketing, development, and material consultants to focus on color solutions for market success. Reviews all samples to achieve a marketable solution review with design, marketing, and development. Clearly communicates all changes for final confirmation. Displays advanced knowledge and practices in all phases of product execution - shares knowledge with others. Maintains color calendar/timelines/deadlines for category/division, resulting in the timely completion of each product. Develops line art, color design server, GPIN, merchandising line, cutting samples, & working with the material consultant to coordinate materials for products. Finalizes product details and proactively follows through on the execution of color on each product.

Color Solutions:

• Creates innovative, retailable color solutions for a category or gender-specific line. Research and delivering color, Color Solutions - Creates innovative, retailable color solutions for category or gender-specific lines.
• Researches and delivers color, design, market, and lifestyle trends that influence and impact the product category process from product briefing to product concept to samples.
• Explores options and proposes with Color Design Managers and/or senior Color Designers a seasonal color strategy for products, line segments, and initiatives.
• Creates seasonal category-specific direction of color, materials, and graphics.
• In partnership with the Category and Design Director, creates and leads color merchandising strategies and stories seasonally.

Consumer Research:

• Knows the consumer. Displays in-depth understanding of consumer, brand-positioning needs as it relates to category/division. of consumer, brand-positioning needs as it relates to category/division.
• Utilizes knowledge of category/division consumers and their culture to improve product performance & appearance.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge about competitor products, consumer retail habits, color, and market trends. Applies insights from consumer perspective into color solutions.

Presentations & Communication:

• Presents and communicates category- specific color direction and color merchandising direction of the seasonal line to appropriate groups.
• Works with design/category to produce presentation materials that effectively communicate color direction related to the consumer, product concepts and creative strategy to internal audiences.
• Participates and delivers bi-annual category/divisional specific color needs for incorporation into footwear color committee preparation.

Skill Development:

• Develops excellence as a color designer. Together with the Color Design Manager, advances the value of color to *** by bringing a high level of functional expertise (i.e. materials, special effects, technology, advanced development, presentation, tools) to the color design organization.
• Educates and mentors more junior designers in the category or color design organization.
• Undertakes projects and opportunities to enhance knowledge of the business, color, and design.

Education:
Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 5 years of directly relevant work experience.

Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 3 yrs; Masters + 4 yrs; Associates degree + 6 yrs; High School + 7 yrs.

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