Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line.
Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation.
Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success:
· Runner First
We act in the best interest of the runner
· Word is Bond
We do what we say we’ll do
· Champion Heart
We give our all in everything we do
· There is no “I” in Run
We stay generous with our humanity
· Keep Moving
We find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic!
We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement — because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.
Your Job:
As a Brooks Designer II, CMF, Advanced Footwear Design you will create design solutions for inline footwear projects. In this role, you will strike the balance between color, material, and finish via palettes, upper and bottom designs, and signature selections, supporting consumer story and the "fit, feel, ride" requirements of our performance-running brand identity.
In this role, you will establish and build relationships with material vendors and factories across the globe. Through your keen design expertise and understanding of trends, consumer tastes, and style preferences, you will design into componentry, materials, and style-level CMF packages to help drive aesthetic across design toolboxes to ensure individual styles meet Brooks’s Crafted Beauty quality standards. Scope of design solutions will range from future material, trim, and treatment packages to the analysis, creation, and coloration of post-process elements, details, finishes, paints, and branding executions for performance and aesthetic.
As Designer II, Advanced Footwear Design, CMF, you will work closely with the Sr. Manager, Advanced Footwear Design, CMF, and fellow designers across Inline Footwear teams, Innovation Footwear teams as well as Inline Color. You will work collaboratively with partners in Material Development, Product Development, and Product Line Management to execute pre-season, innovation, and inline CMF deliverables based on product segmentation, while maintaining brand direction, sustainability goals, and appropriate aesthetic appeal for target consumers.
You will leverage visualization and 3D tools (Blender, Substance Painter, KeyShot, or similar) to communicate CMF design intent with speed, precision, and inspiration — enabling faster, smarter, and more immersive collaboration.
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