Role: Product Design and Development - Materials Designer 2
Location and/or time zone: Beaverton OR
Reason for opening: Capability Building (Project Support)
Organization: JRD Design CMCS
Team details & who they will work with: Kids & Core Color & Materials Design, Global
Jordan.
CORE: Client everyday consumer brand, consumers who buy product for quality and long term. usage, not trend buyers
Desired Candidate Profile:
● Minimum required years of experience: 2+ YOE in Footwear Materials Design
● Education requirements:
● Must have skills:
○ Experience with Kids (grade school, preschool) and CORE business (entry level
into the brand, bigger accounts but lower end price points)
○ Has a strong sense of materials cost margins and how to drive value at a lower
cost for materials
● MUST include Portfolios
○ Understanding of the CORE consumer, storytelling, their part in the design
process or who their partners were
● Nice to have skills:
○ Knowledge of seasonal gates has set up product. materials numbers
○ Experience with Leathers - genuine leather, synthetic leather, able to identity and
understand their differences,
○ Knowledge of materials duties (import taxes)
● Software/technical requirements:
○ CLO, Viscom, Adobe, CAD,
● Previous Client/industry experience preference: Yes