Senior Color Designer, Men's Apparel

Columbia Sportswear Company • Portland, OR

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

As our Senior Color Designer, you will be an influential member of the Apparel Color Design team who forecast, create and deliver the seasonal color palette. A passion for color combined with strong trend and design concept forecasting, exemplary presentation skills, calendar awareness to ensure deadlines are met and a collaborative mindset will allow you hands-on involvement in creating the color vision which reflects Columbia Sportswear’s design ethos of connecting the consumer to their outdoor passions. In this role, you will be responsible for creating a seasonal color point of view and displaying strong creative vision through inspiring concept ideation, development, and color application.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience. Specializing in apparel design, graphic arts, or related field or Associate’s degree with 7 or more years related work experience acceptable in lieu of bachelor’s degree.
• Five to eight years’ experience in color design and/or apparel industry.
• Advanced knowledge of computer software including Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Office Suite, as well as the talent and ability to perform free hand drawings.
• Must have excellent eyesight, including exceptional sense of color.
• Ability to travels for consumer/product research as approved by senior management.
• DESIGN PORTFOLIO LINK OR ATTACHMENT REQUIRED ON RESUME OR APPLICATION.

Nice To Haves

• An outdoor enthusiast.
• Exposure to the outdoor industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Actively research global color and market trends for the outdoor marketplace.
• Influence an inspired vision for season trend and color direction through clear communication and understanding of shared corporate goals.
• Own the creation of new color palette and collection concepts through a strong understanding of our consumers’ needs.
• Collaborate with Color team to design innovative and inspiring presentations of color trends, seasonal and historical palettes, current marketplace, proprietary data and collection colorways for review by the product creation team.
• Support the development and utilization of smart tools and info graphics to communicate design color direction.
• Ideate new processes, exemplify discipline and manage time expertly for color projects to ensure effective and efficient transfer of information at key gates and dates. Strong awareness of design calendar is a must.
• Engage and partner with Product Line Management and Design Leadership on seasonal strategies and execution.
• Inspire and mentor other Designers.

Benefits

• 401k plan plus a generous company match
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life Insurance
• disability
• flexible spending accounts
• health savings account
• an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services)
• EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services
• extensive wellness benefits
• employee discounts
• a generous time off program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree