Color & Materials Designer Tennis Footwear
This role will be rooted within our CMF design team, with a strong interdisciplinary collaboration with Design, Innovation, Materials and Product Management team. There you will be responsible for driving ON’s CMF projects for our new Tennis vertical from a creative and strategic perspective ensuring our collection is getting developed according to our future business needs.
Your sharp eye for trends, cutting-edge technologies and design bring a unique and new perspective to the development of our collection. You bring an outstanding understanding of what needs and executions our athletes, accounts and communities are looking for and you easily can transform these into your designs with right selected and curated material and color applications in order to drive highly performing products. You navigate with ease in the world sports and style but also the dedicated run community has no secrets for you. On top of that you are a strong technical team player that will evolve in a very fast moving environment.
Focusing on our Tennis Footwear collection, you easily collaborate with different teams and keep a great overview of the projects you are leading
Keeping an eye for the unusual, design, trends and new material technologies that will inspire your daily work that you are able to transcribe into great ideas
Pro-actively hunt trends in regards to latest print, material, finish and colouring technologies in the industry and always challenge our standards in this field
Collaborating very closely with the CMF team on defining signature executions that will bond our head-to-toe collection together and speak to our running community
Gather insights from cross-functional teams to support the implementation of right on spot selected materials
Supporting on technical solutions within each product family by understanding the material DNA of each product and complex techniques of shoe making
In collaboration with our R&D material specialists making sure that only materials which both fulfil all functionality and sustainability criteria are selected for projects you lead
Owning projects from concepts through final delivery by collaborating very closely with our development team and our partners on creating and handing over clear CADs & briefs for production
Increase our industry knowledge by attending key retailer sell in meetings, trade shows, retails stores, market visits and partner with our internal teams on consumer insights
CH-8005 Zürich / Zürich
