Senior Designer - Brand Identity (m/f/d)
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
- Develop and design industry leading creative solutions for assigned concepts or category, to create a highly relevant, desirable, and clear adidas brand image, from sell-in to sellout (consumer-facing).
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop creative solutions for Brand Expression, Identity and Branding systems, across multiple touchpoints, from 2D to retail to digital to motion
- Develop concepts that fulfil objectives of category, concept, or brand briefs
- Collaborate with Product Design team to ensure holistic storytelling
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer- and brand focus
- Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence from product creation to sell-out (consumer-facing)
- Direct a variety of creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc) on development of creative execution to ensure holistic creative excellence
- May lead, mentor and administrate a team of internal direct reports
- Review, feedback and approve all production stages of creative executions
- Maximise results within given budget and timeframes
- Participate in the creation of annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies
- Present and communicate objective 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 3D concept representation, 3D assets, digital product information for an accurate development and decision-making process
Key Relationships:
- Design Directors, Creative Directors
- Product Designers
- Brand Communications
- Channel teams: Retail, C2C, Digital, Social
- Product Marketing Teams
- External Creative Resources (agencies, freelancers, photographers, etc)
- Brand Expression Operations
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Design apps: expert
- IT skills: Microsoft apps: advanced
- Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create impactful/exciting visuals
- Strong interpersonal/communication skills to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
- Art Direction of large-scale product and athlete/celebrity photoshoots
- Demonstrate strong affinity and interest into current consumer trends, in sports, design and culture
- Language: English: excellent
- 3D skills and knowledge of virtual tools are required:
- 3D tools: Cinema 4D or similar.
- AI tools: Nano Banana, Vizcom, Firefly or similar
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- Under-graduate level Design education or combination thereof
- Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development of communication tools
- At least 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 adidas and it’s mission
- Passion for sports, culture, design
At adidas, we strongly believe that embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into our culture and talent processes gives our employees a sense of belonging and our brand a real competitive advantage.
– Culture Starts With People, It Starts With You –
By recruiting talent and developing our people to reflect the rich diversity of our consumers and communities, we foster a culture of inclusion that engages our employees and authentically connects our brand with our consumers.