Senior Designer - Football Graphics for Apparel

Senior Designer – Football Graphics for Apparel

Adidas is at the heart of football and the culture that surrounds it, in this team you will be needed to translate the aesthetics, creativity, hype and style into the future look of the brand in new and unexpected ways.

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION

• Develop industry leading creative solutions for the Football Culture and Hype apparel team, to create a highly relevant, desirable and clear adidas brand image
• With a strong knowledge of football culture aesthetics and terrace culture, you will be responsible for shaping the visual/graphical direction of the adidas Football Culture and Hype team
• Driving unexpected and innovative collaborations for the football design team
• As a manager of 2-3 people, you will lead the graphic direction of the team

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the Creative development for concepts across multiple consumer touchpoints and brand focus
• Develop concepts and creative strategies that fulfil objectives of category, concept and briefs
• Collaborate with Product Design team to ensure holistic storytelling
• Cross-functional collaboration with team members
• Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence
• Direct variety of creative resources
• Review and approve production stages of creative execution
• Maximise results within given budget and timeframes
• Participate in creation of annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies
• Present and communicate creative solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders
• Identify opportunities of improvement and change, and initiate own proposals/projects
• Seek out new Design resources that can deliver world class results
• Creating technical drawings and schematics in 3D & 2D, digital product information for an accurate development and decision-making process

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Design Directors, Creative Directors, direct reports, peers
• Product Designers
• Brand Communications
• Retail and Market teams
• Product Teams
• External Creative Resources
• Collaboration partnerships
• Licensed partners (Feds, Clubs, Players etc.)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Design apps: expert with Illustrator, Photoshop
• Typography
• Illustration
• Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create impactful/exciting visuals
• 3D skills and knowledge of virtual tools are required

APP tools: Clo3D, Browzwear, VStitcher or similar 3D fashion design tools

• Strong English language skills

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Under-graduate level Design education or combination thereof
• At least 6-8 years experience in Sporting Goods/Fashion Industry or Design on managerial level
• Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, pre-press processes)
• Passion for sports, culture, design, sub-cultures
• Strong knowledge of football culture aesthetics and terrace culture