Designer

Department: Design

Reports to: Director, Design

Location: North Vancouver, BC

Your opportunity at Arc’teryx:

As a Designer 2 - Men’s Hike, you design comprehensive apparel solutions that align with the Arc’teryx design philosophies, continuously exceeding our guests’ evolving needs. In this highly technical role, you assist in the continued evolution of how we design and approach our Hike apparel offerings, contributing to innovative, relevant and resolved outcomes that fit within our existing collections. You provide resolved solutions that consider materials, feature set, fit, and style to meet specific needs. You bring your curiosity and passion for snow products to imagine and build innovative, relevant designs.

Key Products You’ll Be Designing For:

• Innovating new products for Men’s hike apparel
• Designing pants, woven garments, knits, fleece, insulation and gore styles

 

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is expected to be performed on-site. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Meet your future team:

We create innovative apparel solutions that work for a variety of activities such as climbing, snow sports, hiking, and trail running. We are builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying future needs then build, test, and validate products that solve for real functional challenges. We are innovative problem solvers with a focus on collaborative teamwork.

If you were in the Designer 2 – Men's Hike role now, here are some of the core activities you would be responsible for:

• Creating and executing assigned product designs within seasonal timelines to complement existing collections as well as future advanced R&D projects when required
• Contributing to the commercialization of innovative technologies including materials, pattern/part shaping and construction techniques for existing and product categories
• Creating mockups and prototypes to explore, resolve, or prove new concepts or construction techniques
• Providing detailed product initiations to Product Development, including spec drawings, pattern and fit direction, and material information
• Collaborating with the Fit & Pattern Team to resolve fit style and construction issues and ensure a fully commercialized product
• Coordinating with the Raw Materials team to test new materials and ensure that necessary items are available for prototyping
• Developing and maintaining a thorough understanding of the materials and manufacturing techniques that Arc’teryx works with