Sr. Footwear Designer - Women's
About the Role
TOMS is seeking a highly creative and entrepreneurial Sr. Footwear Designer - Women’s to create innovative, unique footwear styles and color ways that reflect the TOMS aesthetic while bringing innovation and moving the business forward in a trend-relevant manner. An understanding of the current and future TOMS consumer is essential. The ideal candidate, with the Sr. Creative Director, will actively collaborate, lead, mentor, and inspire team members on seasonal trends, silhouettes, materializations, and color palettes. You will bring collaborative results with the Product Managers and Product Developers in creating the Women’s inline footwear collection. Partnership, clear communication, and collaboration across key functions will be essential for this role.
Responsibilities
- Create concepts, sketches, and color CADs for the inline Women’s footwear collection.
- Design and engineer product that remains true to TOMS brand identity while innovating with target price point, margins, and consumer in mind.
- Create Tech Packs—technical specifications for uppers, outsoles, and trims—and modify pullovers, outsoles, and trims through the development stage in collaboration with Product Developers.
- Create Sample Requests for each milestone and project.
- Provide strong knowledge and understanding of product creation, constructions, and commercialization.
- Research trends in footwear, maintain knowledge of global product design, fashion market trends, technology, and graphics—particularly in lifestyle markets and brands.
- Create trend boards in tandem with the entire Design team for the two selling seasons and present trends to the larger organization.
- Contribute to the selection of materials and colors.
- Present designs from sketches to pullovers to the Product Manager and Merchandise teams.
- Collaborate with external Licensing Partnerships teams of Merchandisers and Marketing to ensure fulfillment of brand requirements, managing designs from conception to approval.
- Research market-relevant brands at retail and e-commerce platforms and share insights with the Product team.
- View the collection as a whole and work with the Sr. Creative Director to prepare for key milestones, showcasing the creative vision for the collection.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience with Adobe Suite: Illustrator, Photoshop.
- 5+ years’ experience in hand sketching skills—footwear specific.
- A portfolio of work samples (required with application).
- Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while adapting to changing demands and priorities.
- A degree in Industrial/Product/Fashion is strongly desired.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment: 1-2 days per week in office, with flexibility depending on the product milestone calendar (some weeks will require a full week in office for key milestones). You can bring your pup too!
- A $600 stipend when you join to furnish your home office, plus $100 annually to refresh supplies and gear.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401K with company matching.
- A generous PTO policy plus 12 paid annual holidays and one floating holiday.
- 4 free pairs of shoes per year.
- Employee discount on all TOMS products, plus discounts on partnering businesses.
- Wellness classes and resources (mental health, exercise, parenting, personal finance, nutrition, etc.).
- Anti-racism educational opportunities, including company-wide days of learning.
- Opportunities to volunteer with Impact Partners and Community Organizations.
Pay
This is a Direct Hire role with a target annual salary range of $110,000 - $120,000, depending on experience, plus an annual bonus based on the company's performance.
Schedule
Hybrid schedule with 1-2 days per week in the office, though some weeks may require a full week in office for key milestones.