Lead Color Designer - HOKA Footwear
Deckers Brands•Portland, OR
•$96,600 - $130,400•Hybrid
About The Position
As Lead Color Designer for HOKA Lifestyle Footwear, you’ll accelerate our footwear refresh engine, delivering newness, speed to market, and growth across lifestyle footwear. Sitting at the intersection of design, product, and merchandising, you’ll elevate color as a tool for storytelling, product differentiation, and consumer impact. You bring a strong point of view, push newness in product, and translate insights into meaningful color solutions, driving clarity and momentum from concept through final product.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in industrial design, product design, or related field
- 6–8 years’ experience in footwear color design, with a focus on lifestyle or performance categories
- Advanced understanding of color theory, color application, and storytelling in footwear
- Strong knowledge of footwear construction, materials, and product process, including upper and tooling interaction
- Ability to translate trends and consumer insights into product-relevant color strategies
- Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Miro or Lucid
- Familiarity with generative AI platforms such as Midjourney or Vizcom
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Portfolio demonstrating color direction, trend insight, and product execution
Responsibilities
- Lead color design execution on category priority projects
- Develop seasonal color solutions across lifestyle footwear
- Work against seasonal project briefs and franchise concepts, supporting new creation, refresh, and optioning strategies
- Manage multiple creation calendars across inline, collaborations, and SMU projects
- Build seasonal color palettes and application strategies aligned to creative direction
- Partner with product design, material design, development, merchandising, and marketing to deliver cohesive product stories
- Support seasonal design strategy and contribute to category-level color direction
- Collaborate with footwear, material, and digital design teams to deliver a holistic product point of view
- Contribute to seasonal creative direction and kick-off moments
- Explore unbriefed opportunities that push HOKA expression and innovation in color
Benefits
- Competitive Pay and Bonuses
- Financial Planning and wellbeing
- Time away from work
- Extras, discounts and perks
- Growth and Development
- Health and Wellness
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
