Vans: Footwear Designer, Color and Trend, Lifestyle

About the Role

As a Footwear Designer for Color & Trend in the Lifestyle Category, you will oversee the themes, color, material, and graphic direction. You will work with Product Managers and Product Designers, providing global inspiration, direction, and designs each season. This role requires a deep understanding of the lifestyle product landscape and consumer perspective, especially within the skateboarding culture. Your responsibilities will include crafting stories rooted in our seasonal Creative Vision and applying color and material to both vulcanized and cupsole footwear.

You will need to have multi-faceted agility, designing for Mens, Womens, and Kids consumers within tight and variable calendar timelines, demonstrating consumer-centric sensibilities and an affinity for cultural innovation, which will invigorate the youth and progress the brand forward.

• Visit the market to conduct market research and build inspiration boards that set overall category design direction
• Promote cross-functional work and maintain strong working relationships with footwear Developers, Product Managers, and Product Designers
• Ensure product success and category business strategy, interpreting international/domestic concepts and trends as it relates to market demands and company image
• Have knowledge of material cost, components, and ability to design into margin targets
• Present design assets for design reviews and adhere to all calendar dates

How You Will Make a Difference

What you will do:

You will visit the market to conduct market research, allowing you to build inspiration boards that set overall category design direction.

In this position, you will play a critical role in promoting cross functional work and maintaining strong working relationships with footwear Developers, Product Managers, and Product Designers. You will be responsible for ensuring product success and category business strategy; which includes interpreting international/domestic concepts and trends as it relates to the market demands and company image. You will be responsible for knowledge of material cost, components and ability to design into margin targets. You will have the responsibility for presenting your design assets for design reviews. Responsibilities also include adhering to all calendar dates.

How you will do it:

With an enthusiastic self-starting spirit, resilient problem-solving mindset, and as a collaborative team player

What success looks like:

Creation of lifestyle product that resonates with consumers, drives sale and builds cultural cachet

Skills For Success

Years of Related Professional Experience: 4+ years

Educational Position Requirements: A formal education and subsequent undergraduate/graduate degrees are nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.

What we expect you already know: Inner workings of the design process, from trend research to design to cads and working with development counterparts. Experience working in Graphic Design and/or Color Design with awareness of Lifestyle Product Design. Knowledge of consumer and market trends and ability to translate it into product

What we will teach you: How to build success off the foundation of our past product wins, internal design process and brand culture

VF Guiding Principles: Live with Integrity, Act Courageously, Be Curious, Act with Empathy, and Persevere

What’s In It For You

We’re in the business of unleashing human potential, driven by the ideas, energy and commitment of our people. That’s why we offer comprehensive benefits that encourage mental, physical and financial well-being for all VF associates. When it comes to benefits, we’re the total package. Go to MyVFBenefits.com and click on “Looking to Join VF?” to learn more.

Our Parent Company, VF Corporation

VF is one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies connecting people to the lifestyles, activities and experiences they cherish through our family of iconic outdoor, active and workwear brands. At the heart of our journey lies our company-wide purpose: We power movements of sustainable and active lifestyles for the betterment of people and our planet. This is our purpose. It’s the reason we come to work every day. It’s a commitment shared by our global associates across all brands. Our purpose unites us and leads us to pursue our goals, together. This is our calling. Learn more at vfc.com

We just have one question. Are you in?

Salary and Benefits

Hiring Range: $73,440.00 USD - $91,800.00 USD annually

Incentive Potential: This position is eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential. Specific details of the additional compensation eligibility for this position will be provided during the recruiting and interview process.

Benefits at VF Corporation: You can review a general overview of each benefit program offered, including this year's medical plan rates on www.MyVFbenefits.com and by clicking Looking to Join VF? Detailed information on your benefits will be provided during the hiring process. Please note, our hiring ranges are determined and built from market pay data. In determining the specific compensation for this position, we comply with all local, state, and federal laws.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At VF, we value a diverse, inclusive workforce and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to an individual’s race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. If you are unable to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. VF will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities to the extent required by applicable law. Pursuant to all applicable local Fair Chance Ordinance requirements, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, VF will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.