Color Design 3

Job Title: Color Design 3
Location: Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: 04+ Months

Job Description:
The nature of the work focuses on the appearance of products, communications, or collateral materials.
Color Design Execution

• Plans and executes 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. Researches and delivers color, Color Solutions.
• Creates innovative, retailable color solutions for a category or gender-specific line.
• 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 consumer & 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, the value of color advances 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 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 directly relevant work experience

Note :
One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 3 years; Master's + 4 years; Associate's degree + 6 years; High School + 7 years.

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