Senior Women's Footwear Designer - Johnston & Murphy
Genesco, Nashville, TN, United States
Duration: Full Time
The Ideal Candidate
We are seeking a highly creative, detail-oriented Women's Footwear Designer with a strong point of view on fashion trends, color, materials, and silhouette. This role is responsible for creating cohesive seasonal collections that resonate with the women's consumer and bring a compelling brand story to life.
The Senior Designer partners closely with Product Line Management and Development to design and deliver innovative, commercially viable footwear. This includes translating concepts into a well-executed product through a deep understanding of footwear construction, materials, and fit, while meeting design, quality, and business objectives.
How You Will Make an Impact
Experience and Skills You'll Need to Have
We are seeking a highly creative, detail-oriented Women's Footwear Designer with a strong point of view on fashion trends, color, materials, and silhouette. This role is responsible for creating cohesive seasonal collections that resonate with the women's consumer and bring a compelling brand story to life.
The Senior Designer partners closely with Product Line Management and Development to design and deliver innovative, commercially viable footwear. This includes translating concepts into a well-executed product through a deep understanding of footwear construction, materials, and fit, while meeting design, quality, and business objectives.
How You Will Make an Impact
- Create new and innovative products that are consumer driven, market relevant and brand appropriate.
- Work with developers in US and Asia to deliver on-time product solutions in conjunction with the product calendar and business needs ensuring that all deadlines, line plans, target pricing and deliverables are met.
- Participate in market/trend research, development of seasonal trend stories and color palettes.
- Verbally present concepts and design solutions to mid and senior level managers.
- Ability to constructively discuss and utilize feedback to create excellent product.
- Responsible for visually presenting new concepts at key milestone meetings, as well as communicating thorough tech packs to product development and factory partners.
- Manage multiple projects, with sensitivity to department priorities and deadlines.
- Thorough understanding of ever-changing fashion trends and directions conducted through the monitoring of runway, retail, cultural, and street-style trends, as well as domestic travel, shopping, and researching the competition.
- Build seasonal mood boards, trend, color and material stories that define the J&M vision.
- Collaborate and communicate across multiple teams to create strong market relevant product stories across disciplines.
Experience and Skills You'll Need to Have
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design or related field of study
- Minimum of 5+ years of footwear design experience
- Excellent rendering and presentation skills required
- Strong knowledge of multiple footwear constructions ranging from sandals, sneakers, casual/dress casual, and boots
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- The ability to adapt quickly and manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Highly developed analytical, decision-making, and creative problem-solving abilities
- Technical proficiency in using design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
- Domestic and international travel required