Senior Manager, Color Design Global - Converse
About the Role
You will be part of the Converse Global Trend & Expression Design team, working at the intersection of trend, color, and craftsmanship, global sportwear, and fashion culture. This role collaborates closely with cross-functional partners across Footwear Design, Material Design, Graphic Design, Product Marketing, and Footwear & Color/Material Development to deliver industry-leading product expressions. You will conduct ongoing research, staying on the pulse of culture and color trends, helping to inform and execute a strong Converse color strategy, seasonal creative direction, and color application excellence. Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Trend & Expression Global, you will work closely with the Trend & Expression leadership team and manage a globally based Color Design team.
Responsibilities
- Management of color excellence across a globally based Color Design team
- Create original, industry-leading material strategies and palettes, as well as oversee color narratives and color application for lifestyle footwear collections
- Develop color trend insights methodologies, utilizing the global Color Design team for research inputs, aggregating those findings into seasonal narratives, consumer insights, and product expression goals
- Translate consumer and cultural insights into innovative color solutions
- Explore and implement new color expressions through constructions, finishes, textures, and manufacturing techniques
- Build and refine color palettes that elevate product expression across multiple franchises and product tiers
- Partner with Design, Materials, Graphics, and Development teams to ensure cohesive product storytelling
- Drive innovation through color exploration while balancing performance, cost, manufacturability, and sustainability goals
- Lead presentations and communicate color design intent to internal and external stakeholders
- Influence and align cross-functional teams around color strategy and creative direction
- Implement modern tools and ways of working to increase speed and efficiency within the Color Design team
Qualifications
- 10+ years of relevant experience in color design, footwear design, or related fields
- Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training
- Deep understanding of fashion trends, footwear and fashion culture, consumer insights, and lifestyle product creation
- Experience developing color concepts from ideation through commercialization
- Ability to translate consumer insights into compelling narratives, product solutions, and company-wide color palette systems
- Proven experience leading and inspiring teams
- Highly organized with the ability to prioritize across multiple workstreams and globally based teams
Skills
- Independent creative leader with a strong point of view on color trends, consumer needs, cultural relevance, and emotive color application on footwear
- Proactive and highly collaborative partner across functions
- Thrives in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
- Passion for the emotional value of color design and excellence
Pay
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $133,100.00 in our lowest geographic market to $279,100.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills, and experience.
Portfolio Requirement
To be considered, you must submit a design portfolio that demonstrates excellence in color design or related product design disciplines.
Accommodations
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 require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.