Footwear Designer

TOMS is in business to improve lives. When you wear or work with TOMS you help fund access to mental health resources for the millions of people who need them.

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 and 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.

The Impact You’ll Make:

• Creating concepts, sketches, and color CADs for the inline Women’s footwear collection. Design/Engineer product that remains true to TOMS brand identity. Innovate and design with target price point, margins and consumer in mind.

• Creating Tech Packs - create technical specifications for uppers, outsole and trims. Modify pullovers, outsoles and trims through the development stage, in collaboration with Product Developers. Create Samples Requests for each milestone and project. Provide strong knowledge and understanding on product creation, constructions and commercialization .

• Researching Trends- provide strong knowledge of trends in footwear. Maintain knowledge of global product design, fashion market trends, technology, and graphics - particularly in lifestyle markets and brands. Research trends in the marketplace globally and create trend boards in tandem with the entire Design team for the two selling seasons. Present trends with the Design team to the larger organization.

• Color and materials – provide strong knowledge of colors and materials in footwear. Contribute to select materials and colors.

• Presenting collections and reports– present designs from sketches to pullovers to the Product Manager and Merchandise teams. Present to and collaborate with external Licensing Partnerships teams of Merchandisers and Marketing to ensure fulfillment of brand requirements, managing the designs from conception to approval.

• Market Shop– research market relevant brands at retail and Ecommerce platforms and share insights with the Product team.

• View the collection as a whole and work with Sr. Creative Director to prepare for key milestones to show creative vision for collection.

What You Bring:

•  5+ years’ experience with Adobe suite: Illustrator, Photoshop.

• 5+ years’ experience hand sketching skills- footwear specific.

• A portfolio of work samples along with your 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.

What We Give: 

• 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

• Hybrid work environment: Plan for 1-2 days per week, but flexibility depending on the product milestone calendar (some weeks will require a full week in office for key milestones) and you can bring your pup too!

• A $600 stipend when you join to furnish your home office how you like, plus $100 annually to refresh your 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 (yes, free!)

• Employee Discount on all of our products, plus discounts on partnering businesses

• Wellness classes & 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

Don't meet every single requirement? We still encourage you to apply! Studies show that women, non-binary applicants, and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. However, at TOMS, our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, identities, and talents help us thrive.

TOMS is a proud B Corporation and a member of the Fair Labor Association. We're committed to transparent and equitable compensation, benefits, and opportunities.

EEO Statement:  TOMS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to intentional anti-racism in all areas of our organization and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with the L.A. Fair Chance Initiative Ordinance.