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Senior Designer - Footwear (Performance)

Arc'teryx· Creative – Footwear
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Portland, OR$107k - $141kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Senior Footwear Designer responsible for designing and developing advanced footwear solutions, shaping long-term vision and DNA for Arc’teryx Footwear, balancing athlete needs, brand leadership, and business growth. On-site in Portland, OR.

Responsibilities

  • Executing all design needs for assigned collection and projects within the seasonal offering
  • Supporting stage gates, meetings, presentations, and long-term strategy work
  • Helping build and evolve a clear footwear design DNA that strengthens Arc’teryx’s point of view across form, fit, function, materials, and brand expression
  • Partnering with PLM, Development, Merchandising, and Commercial teams to identify and build key product drivers that balance athlete needs, brand leadership, and business growth
  • Creating strong working relationships with your immediate team, cross functionally, and with overseas teams; communicating clearly and frequently on all topics related to our design, athlete and guest
  • Serving the mountain athlete and broader guest needs through research and observation, leveraging user-centered and iterative design approaches
  • Driving the design process from ideation and concept, through to the guest
  • Supporting the execution of new technologies, materials, constructions, and design for manufacturing techniques
  • Taking on athlete and user feedback in order to improve upon initial design proposals
  • Mentoring designers, developers, and new teammates by sharing skills, knowledge and experience
  • Creating and visually conveying concepts, tech packs, patterns, mock ups, and prototypes to prove new concepts; presenting work at all stage gates in internal reviews and meetings as needed
  • Providing the Product Creation Development team with detailed product tech packs, inclusive of spec drawings, patterns, fits, materials and color information
  • Collaborating with the Raw Materials team to source, develop, and test new materials
  • Developing and maintaining a thorough understanding of existing Arc’teryx materials and manufacturing techniques
  • Defining and building in collaboration with other designers, creating new and better toolbox solutions
  • Staying current with industry trends
  • Assisting with product design changes; addressing in-line production needs as required
  • Collaborating with the Colour team to provide end-use needs, material considerations and feedback
  • Adhering to the Arc’teryx sustainability design principles, while also driving future initiatives in consideration of footwear needs

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial/Product Design, or equivalent industry experience
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience designing performance footwear
  • Thorough understanding of footwear manufacturing processes
  • Meticulous attention to detail, able to design a cohesive collection of footwear
  • Hands-on experience creating tools and construction methods
  • Excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
  • Proactive in identifying root causes and delivering practical solutions with integrity
  • Flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
  • Ability to balance autonomy and collaboration
  • Inspires breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
  • Passion for work and outdoor lifestyle
  • Excellent intuition for the activities products are made for
  • Ability to travel nationally and internationally for an average of 35% of time

Skills

Required:Footwear designMaterials sourcing and testing

Benefits

  • Health & wellbeing - Extended health, dental, vision, mental health support, fertility benefits, 24/7 EAP
  • Financial wellbeing - 401(k) match, eligibility for Annual Incentive Plan, ESPP
  • Time & Flexibility - Paid time off, No Wasted Day program (outdoor days)
  • Family support - Parental leave with transition back to work options
  • Growth, community & gear - Professional development, Arc'teryx Academies, Employee Belonging Councils, gear discounts
  • Eligibility varies by role
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Arc'teryx

Outdoor Clothing, Technical Outerwear, & Accessories | Arc'teryx United States

Arc'teryx is a high performance outdoor equipment company known for leading innovations in climbing, skiing and alpine technologies

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