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JanSport: Product Designer
Vf Corporation • United States of America 🇺🇸
The Product Designer will assist in the creation and execution of innovative products that meet customer needs across all segments. Responsibilities include ideation, technical design, and collaboration with various teams to ensure successful product lines.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the ideation, creation, and presentation of new product designs
- Research consumer trends, and innovation concepts in the industry to maintain category leadership in the marketplace
- Continuously leverage resources in producing new ideas
- Has solid awareness of lifestyle, streetwear and sustainability trends and the ability to interpret these trends through the JanSport lens
- Be the point person for a collection or segmentation and collaborate with the design manager, merchandisers, and developers to execute product / line direction
- Completes technical design packages including various views, and mechanical drawings to achieve accurate communication of designs to manufacturing partners
- Adhere to the product development calendar and hits all deadlines
- Submit new materials and trim seasonally
- Create and communicate visual presentations
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in art and design, fashion, or related field along with 5 years of experience
- Ability to use good judgement, reasoning, and self-editing while designing/creating designs
- Excellent communications skills, including the ability to present concepts to product teams and review boards in a persuasive manner
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment while switching gears frequently
- Able to create and execute highly successful products with an entrepreneurial spirit
- Skilled in 2D Sketching and product ideation
- Skilled in Illustrator
- Basic skills in Photoshop
- Strong knowledge and understanding of apparel/soft goods construction and manufacturing processes
- Basic knowledge of product costs and impact of design
- Good organizational skills
- Computer literate in MS Office
- Embraces change and react with speed and agility
- Ability to be a team player
- Personable, professional, and high accountability
Key Skills
- 2D Sketching and product ideation
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Apparel/soft goods construction and manufacturing processes
- Product costs and impact of design
- MS Office
Benefits
- Eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential
- Benefits at VF Corporation include medical plan rates, annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential
About Vf Corporation
VF Corporation is one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies connecting people to the lifestyles, activities and experiences they cherish most through a family of iconic outdoor, active and workwear brands including Vans®, The North Face®, Timberland® and Dickies®. Our purpose is to power movements of sustainable and active lifestyles for the betterment of people and our planet. We believe that when you discover the difference between a career and a calling, you get so much more out of life. When those lines begin to blur, you start to limit yourself much less and start aiming for more. That’s what we want for everyone who joins us at VF. And frankly, that’s what it takes to thrive here too. For more information, please visit vfc.com.
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