Footwear Designer, Western (7268)

About the Role

The Designer's primary responsibility is to create footwear that is innovative, trend relevant, and to continue to evolve iconic classic styles that meet the needs of the Ariat consumers. This is an in-house role, based at our headquarters in San Leandro, CA.

You'll Make a Difference By

• Working closely with fellow team members in product management, color and trend forecasting, design, and footwear development in the planning, creating, and developing of technical footwear lines.

• Consistently delivering innovative and appropriate design solutions under tight deadlines.

• Participating in seasonal presentations with strong verbal and visual skills. Prepare highly visual and thought-provoking trend/inspiration presentations each season that highlights design inspiration, shows collaboration with other categories as well communicate how those trends are interpreted.

• Taking hand drawings to presentation ready renderings efficiently.

• Supporting brand directives through specific product design offerings.

• Traveling domestically and internationally when needed.

• Showing a command of all footwear skillsets, lead by example and be willing to share that knowledge though a can do/ team player attitude.

• Collaborating with all footwear categories as well as apparel teams to help create cohesive product lines.

• Becoming proficient in the finishing level of design by learning and creating unique options in areas of pattern detail, construction, branding, molding, etc.

• Supporting Design Director for all aspects of design for Ariat Men's/Women's and Youth Western Footwear.

• Learning to create western boot shaft stitch patterns.

• May help create repeat patterns for product.

• Will need to be able to take the Design Directors hand sketches and drawings and bring into Adobe Illustrator to create editable spline artwork.

• Learn and help create footwear tech packs for relay product information to the development team and factories.

• Help create image/trend boards for forward thinking product often designed 2 years ahead of the market.

• Support the design team in all aspects of design for both men's and women's. Includes creating cads, renderings, image trend and material boards.

• Work with the materials team to identify materials needs and support the team in creating material board with multiple options going into merchandising.

• Collaborate with the team on design direction, trend analysis, and help create an answer to what is "the Ariat western lens"?

• Come up with original artwork and concepts while also supporting the team with additional work that supports the entire line. Findings, finishes, buckles, hardware etc should go across entire line.

About You

• Be an integral team member that collaborates, takes direction, adds insight and helps manage the workload.

• Adobe Creative suite, especially Adobe Illustrator experience required.

• Footwear background or graphic design training with strong color theory or training.

• Western Footwear knowledge preferred.

• BFA, BA in fashion, industrial design, graphic design or similar required.

About Ariat

Ariat is an innovative, global outdoor brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high-quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work, and play outdoors and care about performance, quality, comfort, and style.

The salary range for this position is $85,000 - $88,000 per year.

The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

Ariat's holistic benefits package for full-time team members includes (but is not limited to):

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options

• Expanded wellness and mental health benefits

• Paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, and paid volunteer days

• 401(k) with company match

• Bonus incentive plans

• Team member discount on Ariat merchandise

Note: Availability of benefits may be subject to location & employment type and may have certain eligibility requirements. Ariat reserves the right to alter these benefits in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

Please note that Ariat does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agreement, Ariat will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter/agency placement fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Agreement, Ariat explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Ariat.

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