Sr. Designer Hype Footwear
About The Position
The Senior Designer, Footwear - HYPE helps shape Crocs’ brand-driving products by creating consumer-centric, innovative footwear for global consumers. The role combines hands-on design execution with creative influence, applying culture, craft, and curiosity to deliver brand-right footwear solutions at scale. The designer leads footwear projects from concept through execution and commercialization, working with internal Category Management and Development teams and influential external partners. The role uses consumer understanding, marketplace insights, trend research, and competitive awareness to evolve the footwear business while contributing to design excellence, collaboration, and an inclusive product-creation culture. This position follows Crocs’ Collaborator work persona, with in-office requirements of four days per week and a blend of in-person and virtual collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, footwear design, product design, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5–6 years of footwear or product design experience.
- Deep understanding of footwear design, including graphic design, construction, materials, tooling, specifications, technical drawings, and prototype refinement.
- Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and respond effectively to process exceptions using sound judgment.
- Professional and adaptable working style, with ownership and follow-through in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
- Expertise in footwear design tools, including sketching and 2D and 3D form development.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to express design intent clearly and influence cross-functional partners.
- Ability to work across global teams and time zones with a cooperative, problem-solving approach.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed.
Nice To Haves
- Experience preferably in molded, lifestyle, or technical footwear categories.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate understanding of forward-thinking global consumers and their cultural and functional connections to footwear and the Crocs brand.
- Lead and contribute to innovative, consumer-centric footwear design, advancing form, comfort, function, and self-expression.
- Guide projects from concept through execution, including inspiration, form exploration, materials, technical drawings, specifications, and teardowns.
- Manage and prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment, adapting to changing schedules and meeting timelines and deliverables.
- Partner with Category Management and Development teams to move concepts from ideation through commercialization, and manage relationships with influential partners.
- Use global marketplace insights, trend research, and competitive awareness to evolve and energize the footwear business.
- Provide creative leadership and constructive feedback to support strong design thinking, craft, and execution.
- Develop design solutions under design leadership, respond constructively to feedback, and maintain a distinct point of view aligned with the Crocs brand.
- Explore innovative and unexpected approaches to solve design challenges.
- Inspire creativity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability across the product-creation team.
- Travel domestically and internationally as needed.
Benefits
- Company incentive program.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Life and AD&D coverage.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Paid time off.
- Employee assistance program.
- 401(k) program with company match.
- Additional voluntary benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
