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Design Manager, Footwear Sportstyle - W/M

Salomon 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Full-time Manager

Define and lead the design strategy and artistic direction for the Footwear Sportstyle category to ensure brand consistency. Manage and develop a creative design team across Paris and Annecy while overseeing the end-to-end creative process from brief to validation.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the design strategy and artistic direction for the Footwear Sportstyle category to ensure brand consistency. Manage and develop a creative design team across Paris and Annecy while overseeing the end-to-end creative process from brief to validation.

Requirements

  • Requires a Master's degree in Design and at least 10 years of professional experience in footwear product design and development. Must possess strong managerial skills, a deep understanding of sneaker culture, and proficiency in modern digital design tools.

Key Skills

Design leadership Footwear product design Sneaker culture expertise Team management Creative direction Digital design tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino, CLO) Concept development Trend forecasting Brand consistency Project management Cross‑functional collaboration Mentoring and talent development Strategic thinking Budget planning Presentation and communication Design research Material selection Prototyping 3D modeling Agile workflow

About Salomon

Salomon is the modern mountain sport lifestyle brand creating innovative, premium and authentic footwear, apparel and winter sports equipment in the French Alps. We’re more than innovators, we’re futurists. We don’t predict trends, we shape the future. At the Annecy Design Center, designers, engineers and athletes intersect to explore the white space of tomorrow and create the future of sports and culture. Shaping New Futures.

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