In Short
Color has the power to shape our thoughts, moods, and emotions, influencing us both physiologically and psychologically. As a Color Designer at On, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the brand's identity through the strategic use of color. This position involves crafting compelling color stories that resonate with consumers, aligning with brand values and driving engagement across product ranges. Color Designers are storytellers, working collaboratively with various teams to create cohesive color proposals that cater to different product categories, consumer needs, and market trends. You will maintain a deep understanding of industry trends, consumer behavior, and emerging demands, ensuring seamless integration of color across all product categories, from apparel to footwear.
Your Mission
- Consumer-focused color work: Strategize the use of color to evoke emotional connections, align with brand identity, drive consumer engagement, and ensure commerciality.
- Great understanding of our distribution, channels, and tiering: Maintain a deep understanding of consumer preferences, market trends, and the competitive landscape across color design domains.
- Color proposal creation: Create cohesive color stories/proposals that translate across various product ranges to create head-to-toe moments for our consumers and ensure alignment across retail.
- Color CAD creation.
- Color palette development: Develop color palettes that pull from the CD color umbrella, creating narratives tailored to specific product categories, consumer demographics, and market needs.
- Collaboration with Material and FTW Designers: Work together to create products from start to finish.
- Connection to Apparel Color Design: Ensure that color expresses as a total brand.
- Monitor industry color trends: Stay abreast of consumer behavior and emerging market demands across color.
- Cross-department collaboration: Work closely with Design, Development, Product Strategy, and Merchandising teams to align color strategies with overall product goals and brand initiatives.
- Present color design proposals: Convey concepts and narratives compellingly to gain buy-in from internal stakeholders and external partners, ensuring seamless integration of color.
- Cultivate a collaborative environment: Encourage creative exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Stay updated with color trends: Understand how colors are combined, used, and their impact in art, culture, and fashion.
- Build a color inspiration library: Regularly curate a comprehensive library of colors, combinations, patterns, textures, designs, mood images, materials, and shapes, both digitally and physically.
Your Story
- Bachelor's degree in Color Sciences or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in the footwear industry with a focus on color design.
- Strong understanding of merchandising methodologies, strategies, and the analysis of selling data and the role that color plays within these.
- Solid understanding of color science processes as they relate to footwear materials, with a preference for performance footwear.
- Proactive and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating the ability to solve complex challenges.
- Proficiency in Pantone and other color systems as well as design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, PLM, etc.
- Passionate about sustainability, with experience integrating sustainable practices into color creation and materials sourcing.
- Strong understanding of competitor brands and distribution channels, with a knack for gaining insights that drive product differentiation.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken; additional languages are a plus.
About the Team
Our Color and Materials Team plays a pivotal role in shaping the visual identity and aesthetic appeal of our products across all categories. Comprising talented professionals with diverse backgrounds in color theory and material science, our team collaborates seamlessly to deliver innovative and trend-setting designs that resonate with our consumers and elevate our brand presence in the market. In essence, our Color and Materials Design Teams serve as the creative powerhouse, integrating past, present, and future perspectives to enhance the visual and tactile experience of our products.
Through a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach, we craft compelling color and material design solutions that captivate consumers, differentiate our brand, and inspire lasting connections in the competitive marketplace. This role requires a balance of creative vision, technical expertise, and the ability to collaborate effectively across different teams. If you are passionate about color design in footwear and want to help shape the future of product aesthetics, we’d love to hear from you!
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