Lead Designer, Speed Apparel Color Design, Global Jordan
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real content. The posting includes: description of role, who you'll work with, who we are looking for, what you bring, what you'll work on, how you will show up, success in this role, accommodations (but that's boilerplate? It's about accommodations for interview process; we should remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The accommodations statement might be considered part of interview process, maybe we can keep? It's not exactly EEO but it's about accommodations. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The accommodations statement is not exactly those, but it's about interview process accommodations; might be considered part of application instructions? It says "If you discover... please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form." That's application instruction. So we should remove that.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need sections: About the role (maybe "Who You'll Work With" and role description). Responsibilities (what you'll work on). Requirements/Qualifications/Skills (what you bring). Benefits? Not mentioned. Pay? Not mentioned. Schedule? Not mentioned. So we should not include those sections.
We need to use for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. The job title is "Lead Apparel Color Designer". Not to repeat.
We need to fold minor metadata (like Job ID) into short
or drop; none present.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's parse content:
Intro: "This role brings color design, creative problem-solving, and exceptional product craft to focused, high-priority opportunities across Jordan apparel."
Then "Who You'll Work With": description.
Then "Who We Are Looking For": description.
Then "What You Bring": list of qualifications.
Then "What You'll Work On": responsibilities.
Then "How You Will Show Up": behaviors.
Then "SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE": success criteria.
We could combine some sections: About the role could include intro + Who You'll Work With. Responsibilities = What You'll Work On + How You Will Show Up? Might be separate but we can combine.
Requirements/Qualifications/Skills = What You Bring.
We could also have a section for "Success in this role" maybe as "Success Criteria". Not in list of allowed headings but we could use "About the role" etc. The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those as examples. Probably we should stick to those headings where applicable. We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (or Qualifications/Skills). We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? Might be better to have separate sections: Requirements and Qualifications. But we have only one block "What You Bring" which includes education, experience, skills. Could split into Requirements (education, experience) and Qualifications (skills). But we can also just have one section "Requirements" containing all.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for lists we should use
. For prose, .
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details.
Let's extract each piece.
About the role:
- Intro sentence: "This role brings color design, creative problem-solving, and exceptional product craft to focused, high-priority opportunities across Jordan apparel."
- Who You'll Work With: "You will report to the Senior Director, Speed Design, Global Jordan and collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary design team across apparel, footwear, color, materials, graphics, print, and digital design. You will also partner with Product Management, Merchandising, Color/Material/Trim Development, Technical Development, Innovation, and other cross-functional teams to turn opportunities into compelling product solutions."
Combine into a paragraph.
Responsibilities (What You'll Work On + How You Will Show Up?):
What You'll Work On bullet list:
- As the Lead Designer for Speed Apparel Color Design, you will create and execute color direction for focused opportunities that benefit from concentrated, cross-functional collaboration. The work may range from unlocking a high-impact product opportunity to exploring an emerging consumer or cultural signal, translating innovation into product, or testing a new creative approach.
- Develop original color palettes, color narratives, and product-specific color solutions that connect to the Jordan consumer and strengthen the overall product expression.
- Apply color across apparel line art and product concepts with precision, balancing storytelling, commercial relevance, and design intent.
- Research and synthesize consumer behavior, cultural signals, sport insights, market trends, competitive products, materials, and color direction.
- Partner with designers across disciplines to explore, make, test, learn, and refine ideas quickly while protecting product quality and craft.
- Translate broad or ambiguous opportunities into clear creative briefs, visual direction, and actionable product recommendations.
- Build compelling presentations, mood boards, prototypes, and storytelling tools that help teams evaluate possibilities and make informed decisions.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Merchandising, Development, and Innovation partners to ensure creative solutions are relevant, feasible, and executable.
- Contribute color expertise beyond a single category or project, sharing learning and helping strengthen future ways of working.
- Manage multiple workstreams and communicate progress, decisions, risks, and required inputs with clarity.
- Deliver exceptional product at pace. The speed of the process should never lower the standard of the outcome.
How You Will Show Up (behaviors):
- Collaborate first: seek diverse perspectives, understand what others bring, and prioritize the strongest collective outcome.
- Lead with curiosity: ask questions, learn before judging, and remain open to new tools, methods, and points of view.
- Debate constructively: challenge ideas directly and respectfully, surface concerns early, and help the team move toward clarity.
- Commit together: once a direction is chosen, align behind it, support teammates, learn from outcomes, and keep moving.
- Obsess craft: move with urgency while holding a high bar for detail, storytelling, and product excellence.
We could combine these into responsibilities section as a list of duties and behaviors.
Requirements/Qualifications/Skills (What You Bring):
List:
- Bachelor's degree in Design or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
- Minimum 4-6 years of technically challenging color design experience, preferably within apparel, sport, footwear, or consumer product.
- Advanced understanding of color theory, palette building, color mixing, compatibility, placement, and application across apparel collections.
- Strong knowledge of apparel design and development processes, including materials, trims, graphics, print, and product construction.
- Ability to translate consumer, cultural, sport, competitive, and marketplace insights into original color concepts and product stories.
- Experience creating high-quality color mood boards, seasonal narratives, presentation tools, and detailed color specifications.
- Strong visual, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to present creative direction to diverse and senior audiences.
- Ability to identify the core creative problem, develop focused responses, work independently, and know when to engage or elevate partners.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across disciplines, influence without authority, and use internal and external resources effectively.
- Comfort working across changing priorities, accelerated timelines, and new or undefined spaces while maintaining attention to detail.
- A deep passion for sport, culture, design, and the Jordan consumer.
Also note: "TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE SUBMIT A COLOR FOCUSED PORTFOLIO (PDF OR URL WITH PASSWORD PROVIDED IF APPLICABLE)" - that's application instruction, should be removed.
Also "We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form." This is application instruction/accommodation; remove.
Thus final HTML:
About the role
This role brings color design, creative problem-solving, and exceptional product craft to focused, high-priority opportunities across Jordan apparel. You will report to the Senior Director, Speed Design, Global Jordan and collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary design team across apparel, footwear, color, materials, graphics, print, and digital design. You will also partner with Product Management, Merchandising, Color/Material/Trim Development, Technical Development, Innovation, and other cross-functional teams to turn opportunities into compelling product solutions.
Responsibilities
- As the Lead Designer for Speed Apparel Color Design, you will create and execute color direction for focused opportunities that benefit from concentrated, cross-functional collaboration. The work may range from unlocking a high-impact product opportunity to exploring an emerging consumer or cultural signal, translating innovation into product, or testing a new creative approach.
- Develop original color palettes, color narratives, and product-specific color solutions that connect to the Jordan consumer and strengthen the overall product expression.
- Apply color across apparel line art and product concepts with precision, balancing storytelling, commercial relevance, and design intent.
- Research and synthesize consumer behavior, cultural signals, sport insights, market trends, competitive products, materials, and color direction.
- Partner with designers across disciplines to explore, make, test, learn, and refine ideas quickly while protecting product quality and craft.
- Translate broad or ambiguous opportunities into clear creative briefs, visual direction, and actionable product recommendations.
- Build compelling presentations, mood boards, prototypes, and storytelling tools that help teams evaluate possibilities and make informed decisions.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Merchandising, Development, and Innovation partners to ensure creative solutions are relevant, feasible, and executable.
- Contribute color expertise beyond a single category or project, sharing learning and helping strengthen future ways of working.
- Manage multiple workstreams and communicate progress, decisions, risks, and required inputs with clarity.
- Deliver exceptional product at pace. The speed of the process should never lower the standard of the outcome.
- Collaborate first: seek diverse perspectives, understand what others bring, and prioritize the strongest collective outcome.
- Lead with curiosity: ask questions, learn before judging, and remain open to new tools, methods, and points of view.
- Debate constructively: challenge ideas directly and respectfully, surface concerns early, and help the team move toward clarity.
- Commit together: once a direction is chosen, align behind it, support teammates, learn from outcomes, and keep moving.
- Obsess craft: move with urgency while holding a high bar for detail, storytelling, and product excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Design or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
- Minimum 4-6 years of technically challenging color design experience, preferably within apparel, sport, footwear, or consumer product.
- Advanced understanding of color theory, palette building, color mixing, compatibility, placement, and application across apparel collections.
- Strong knowledge of apparel design and development processes, including materials, trims, graphics, print, and product construction.
- Ability to translate consumer, cultural, sport, competitive, and marketplace insights into original color concepts
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. The job title is "Lead Apparel Color Designer". Not to repeat. We need to fold minor metadata (like Job ID) into short
or drop; none present. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's parse content: Intro: "This role brings color design, creative problem-solving, and exceptional product craft to focused, high-priority opportunities across Jordan apparel." Then "Who You'll Work With": description. Then "Who We Are Looking For": description. Then "What You Bring": list of qualifications. Then "What You'll Work On": responsibilities. Then "How You Will Show Up": behaviors. Then "SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE": success criteria. We could combine some sections: About the role could include intro + Who You'll Work With. Responsibilities = What You'll Work On + How You Will Show Up? Might be separate but we can combine. Requirements/Qualifications/Skills = What You Bring. We could also have a section for "Success in this role" maybe as "Success Criteria". Not in list of allowed headings but we could use "About the role" etc. The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those as examples. Probably we should stick to those headings where applicable. We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (or Qualifications/Skills). We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? Might be better to have separate sections: Requirements and Qualifications. But we have only one block "What You Bring" which includes education, experience, skills. Could split into Requirements (education, experience) and Qualifications (skills). But we can also just have one section "Requirements" containing all. We need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for lists we should use
- . For prose,
- As the Lead Designer for Speed Apparel Color Design, you will create and execute color direction for focused opportunities that benefit from concentrated, cross-functional collaboration. The work may range from unlocking a high-impact product opportunity to exploring an emerging consumer or cultural signal, translating innovation into product, or testing a new creative approach.
- Develop original color palettes, color narratives, and product-specific color solutions that connect to the Jordan consumer and strengthen the overall product expression.
- Apply color across apparel line art and product concepts with precision, balancing storytelling, commercial relevance, and design intent.
- Research and synthesize consumer behavior, cultural signals, sport insights, market trends, competitive products, materials, and color direction.
- Partner with designers across disciplines to explore, make, test, learn, and refine ideas quickly while protecting product quality and craft.
- Translate broad or ambiguous opportunities into clear creative briefs, visual direction, and actionable product recommendations.
- Build compelling presentations, mood boards, prototypes, and storytelling tools that help teams evaluate possibilities and make informed decisions.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Merchandising, Development, and Innovation partners to ensure creative solutions are relevant, feasible, and executable.
- Contribute color expertise beyond a single category or project, sharing learning and helping strengthen future ways of working.
- Manage multiple workstreams and communicate progress, decisions, risks, and required inputs with clarity.
- Deliver exceptional product at pace. The speed of the process should never lower the standard of the outcome.
- Collaborate first: seek diverse perspectives, understand what others bring, and prioritize the strongest collective outcome.
- Lead with curiosity: ask questions, learn before judging, and remain open to new tools, methods, and points of view.
- Debate constructively: challenge ideas directly and respectfully, surface concerns early, and help the team move toward clarity.
- Commit together: once a direction is chosen, align behind it, support teammates, learn from outcomes, and keep moving.
- Obsess craft: move with urgency while holding a high bar for detail, storytelling, and product excellence.
- Bachelor's degree in Design or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
- Minimum 4-6 years of technically challenging color design experience, preferably within apparel, sport, footwear, or consumer product.
- Advanced understanding of color theory, palette building, color mixing, compatibility, placement, and application across apparel collections.
- Strong knowledge of apparel design and development processes, including materials, trims, graphics, print, and product construction.
- Ability to translate consumer, cultural, sport, competitive, and marketplace insights into original color concepts
. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details. Let's extract each piece. About the role: - Intro sentence: "This role brings color design, creative problem-solving, and exceptional product craft to focused, high-priority opportunities across Jordan apparel." - Who You'll Work With: "You will report to the Senior Director, Speed Design, Global Jordan and collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary design team across apparel, footwear, color, materials, graphics, print, and digital design. You will also partner with Product Management, Merchandising, Color/Material/Trim Development, Technical Development, Innovation, and other cross-functional teams to turn opportunities into compelling product solutions." Combine into a paragraph. Responsibilities (What You'll Work On + How You Will Show Up?): What You'll Work On bullet list: - As the Lead Designer for Speed Apparel Color Design, you will create and execute color direction for focused opportunities that benefit from concentrated, cross-functional collaboration. The work may range from unlocking a high-impact product opportunity to exploring an emerging consumer or cultural signal, translating innovation into product, or testing a new creative approach. - Develop original color palettes, color narratives, and product-specific color solutions that connect to the Jordan consumer and strengthen the overall product expression. - Apply color across apparel line art and product concepts with precision, balancing storytelling, commercial relevance, and design intent. - Research and synthesize consumer behavior, cultural signals, sport insights, market trends, competitive products, materials, and color direction. - Partner with designers across disciplines to explore, make, test, learn, and refine ideas quickly while protecting product quality and craft. - Translate broad or ambiguous opportunities into clear creative briefs, visual direction, and actionable product recommendations. - Build compelling presentations, mood boards, prototypes, and storytelling tools that help teams evaluate possibilities and make informed decisions. - Collaborate with Product Management, Merchandising, Development, and Innovation partners to ensure creative solutions are relevant, feasible, and executable. - Contribute color expertise beyond a single category or project, sharing learning and helping strengthen future ways of working. - Manage multiple workstreams and communicate progress, decisions, risks, and required inputs with clarity. - Deliver exceptional product at pace. The speed of the process should never lower the standard of the outcome. How You Will Show Up (behaviors): - Collaborate first: seek diverse perspectives, understand what others bring, and prioritize the strongest collective outcome. - Lead with curiosity: ask questions, learn before judging, and remain open to new tools, methods, and points of view. - Debate constructively: challenge ideas directly and respectfully, surface concerns early, and help the team move toward clarity. - Commit together: once a direction is chosen, align behind it, support teammates, learn from outcomes, and keep moving. - Obsess craft: move with urgency while holding a high bar for detail, storytelling, and product excellence. We could combine these into responsibilities section as a list of duties and behaviors. Requirements/Qualifications/Skills (What You Bring): List: - Bachelor's degree in Design or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training. - Minimum 4-6 years of technically challenging color design experience, preferably within apparel, sport, footwear, or consumer product. - Advanced understanding of color theory, palette building, color mixing, compatibility, placement, and application across apparel collections. - Strong knowledge of apparel design and development processes, including materials, trims, graphics, print, and product construction. - Ability to translate consumer, cultural, sport, competitive, and marketplace insights into original color concepts and product stories. - Experience creating high-quality color mood boards, seasonal narratives, presentation tools, and detailed color specifications. - Strong visual, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to present creative direction to diverse and senior audiences. - Ability to identify the core creative problem, develop focused responses, work independently, and know when to engage or elevate partners. - Demonstrated ability to collaborate across disciplines, influence without authority, and use internal and external resources effectively. - Comfort working across changing priorities, accelerated timelines, and new or undefined spaces while maintaining attention to detail. - A deep passion for sport, culture, design, and the Jordan consumer. Also note: "TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE SUBMIT A COLOR FOCUSED PORTFOLIO (PDF OR URL WITH PASSWORD PROVIDED IF APPLICABLE)" - that's application instruction, should be removed. Also "We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form." This is application instruction/accommodation; remove. Thus final HTML:
About the role
This role brings color design, creative problem-solving, and exceptional product craft to focused, high-priority opportunities across Jordan apparel. You will report to the Senior Director, Speed Design, Global Jordan and collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary design team across apparel, footwear, color, materials, graphics, print, and digital design. You will also partner with Product Management, Merchandising, Color/Material/Trim Development, Technical Development, Innovation, and other cross-functional teams to turn opportunities into compelling product solutions.
Responsibilities
Requirements
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for lists we should use