Designer

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As a Designer 2, Men’s, you have the opportunity to design product solutions that align with Veilance design philosophies that continuously exceed our guests’ evolving needs. In this role, you design for our Veilance product category, with a specific focus on men’s product and perspective. You bring your curiosity and passion for product to imagine and build innovative, relevant and resolved designs for the city environment. You are an innovative problem solver with a focus on collaborative teamwork.

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 are innovative problem solvers with a focus on collaborative teamwork. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying future needs in city environments, then build, test, and validate high-end product solutions.

If you were the Designer 2, Men’s now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Creating and executing assigned product designs alongside your senior leaders that are future oriented and user-centric 
• Helping to define the current and future global guest, their needs and expectations through building mood boards, and visualizing consumer journeys and market analysis
• Contributing to the commercialization of innovative technologies, including materials, pattern, and construction techniques for existing and new product categories 
• Creating patterns, mock ups, and prototypes to explore, resolve, or prove new concepts or construction techniques 
• Providing detailed product initiations to the Product Development team, including spec drawings, pattern and fit directions, 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 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 Veilance works with 
• Collaborating closely with other Designers to bring new and better toolbox solutions that benefit the brand (such as new technologies, construction techniques, features, etc.)  
• Staying up to date with industry trends 
• Assisting with current product design changes where necessary, in order to address in-line production issues 
• Supporting the Design Director/Senior Designers in developing a schedule for the flow of the line plan through all development stages, including charting line plan progress 
• Partnering with the Development and Merchandising teams on concepting and prototyping for seasonal products to gain visibility into cost estimates, MOQs and LOM concerns