Product Designer

Our Customer’s mission is to create groundbreaking sport innovations, by making their products more sustainable, building a creative and diverse global team, and making a positive impact in communities where we live and work. Their purpose is to bring inspiration and innovation to unite the world through sport to create a healthy planet, active communities, and an equal playing field for all.

We are seeking a Product Designer on a contract basis to support our customer's ongoing business needs. This role is a hybrid setup with 1 day remote and 4 days onsite in Beaverton, OR.

The nature of the work is focused on research and development of products from conception to retail to meet the needs of accounts and consumers.

Responsibilities

• Seasonal design concepting
• Sketching in Adobe Illustrator
• Attending fittings
• Attending weekly triad meetings with functional team partners
• Uploading files into Miro
• Ideation & Visioning
• Generates new ways of thinking about aspects of performance based products that result in growth opportunities and competitive advantages in the marketplace
• Develops ideas that are consistent with the vision for new products by collaborating with product creation on the genesis of new product concepts
• Research/Engineering
• Defines protocol and establishes scope of testing required to prove and validate a concept
• In line with advanced knowledge of the consumer, business, and performance requirements, develops concrete insights which feed into the development of advanced product concepts through the use of new technologies or construction processes
• Delivers proof of concept by turning concepts and new product visions into reality
• Identifies key elements of product construction materials and processes
• Engineers prototypes
• Project Management
• Leads innovation projects turning concept ideation into reality by working in, or with, multi-disciplinary teams to include product creation, manufacturing, and 3rd party vendors
• Meets complex challenges with imaginative state of the art approaches supported by feasible solutions
• Communication
• Drafts reports and presents results and market concepts at the functional department level
• Clearly and concisely communicates the knowledge required and best practices assist transition of technology to product

Qualifications:

• 7-10 years of relevant work experience (ideally in apparel)
• A Bachelor's degree is preferred
  
  

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.