Jr. Footwear Designer

Who We Are
Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—the Comfort Technology Company®—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high‑quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

About The Role
As a Footwear Designer, this position will leverage your thorough understanding of fashion trends, market conditions, consumer expectations, technologies, and the manufacturing process with your design excellence to develop the next generations of SKECHERS USA performance footwear products within the Men’s Division.

What You’ll Do

Create innovative and stylish footwear design concepts.

Work with Design Management and Development personnel to collaborate on design projects to maximize effectiveness and build product to target cost.

Understand fashion trends and directions through travel, shop the markets, tradeshows, and researching the competition.

Create accurate CADs quickly and efficiently.

Build and present seasonal product strategies and trend boards.

Maintain constant interaction with Merchandisers on all aspects of product line plans, briefs, color palette, pricing, themes, graphics, and strategies.

Work with developers in the US and Asia and adhere to the product calendar, ensuring development projects are on track.

Coordinate and develop new materials, constructions, processes, and procedures with developers and the materials team.

Be responsible for getting prototypes and samples executed to reflect the concept and design you created.

Possess knowledge and understanding of competitors’ top sellers, technologies, styling, colors, strategies, and pricing.

Drive innovation through fashion‑forward new designs and technologies.

Enhance brand recognition.

Travel domestically and internationally to various countries as required.

Perform other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring

Ability to sketch shoes accurately and proportionately and provide detailed specifications.

Understand the footwear production process at the factory level.

Proficient in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite and 3D CAD programs.

Have great communication and presentation skills.

Collaborate with cross‑functional departments.

In‑depth knowledge of materials, construction techniques, and manufacturing processes.

Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Bachelor’s Degree in Footwear Design, Fashion Design, or Industrial Design is preferred or equivalent related work experience.

1‑2 years of experience in the related field.

The pay range for this position is $90,000‑$100,000 / yr USD.

About Skechers
Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e‑commerce and digital stores, and by operating more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.

Reasonable Accommodation
Applicants for employment who require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job should request appropriate accommodation by emailing benefits@skechers.com.

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