Assist and support industry leading creative solutions for assigned concept or category, to create a highly relevant, desirable and distinct adidas brand image, to serve for athlete lead brand moments and system solutions for categories.

Key Responsibilities:

• Learn and grow towards achieving disruptive, innovation design impact with our consumers. Connecting emotionally with our consumer through your design contribution. Manifesting in a positive benefit driven brand experience
• Execute the innovation design strategy for concept or systems across high performance concepts.
• Support concepts and execute creative strategies that fulfill objectives of category-/concept briefs.
• Build strong relationships with cross-functional innovation teams to ensure holistic storytelling on product level.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure athlete and brand relevance on projects.
• Support the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence.
• Direct variety of creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc.).
• Ensure compliance with legal requirements and drive IDF creation.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with adidas design and cross-functional colleagues.
• Demonstrate expertise in material visualization and prototyping.  
• Present and communicate innovative solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders.
• Support opportunities of improvement and change and initiate own proposals/projects.
• Seek out new design resources that can deliver world class results.
• Travel to suppliers or manufacturing partners as needed.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Innovation Design (Directors, Senior Directors, VP)
• Business Units Design counterparts
• Cross-functional teams in Innovation for product and systems (concept, development, engineering, athlete solution, athlete performance, …)
• Creative Direction organization
• External creative resources (agencies, freelancers, photographers, etc.)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• IT skills: Outlook, Miro, PowerPoint, Word, Excel
• Design skills: Sketching, 2D software (Illustrator/photoshop/…), 3D software (i.e Blender, Gravity Sketch, Rhino, …), 3D renders software (i.e. Blender, Keyshot, …), Scripting (grasshopper, AI generated imagery/3D, etc., …)
• Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create relevant and

impactful Design solutions

• Art direction of photoshoots, pre-press reviews and approvals.
• Fluent in English (verbal and written). 

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Under-graduate level design education or combination thereof (Industrial/Product/Footwear Design
• Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development

of communication tools

• 1-3 years of experience in sporting goods/fashion industry or design related industry on managerial level
• Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, athlete interactions, pre-press processes)
• Passion for adidas and its mission
• Passion for design, people, sport