Our client a leading sports apparel manufacturing and retail client is looking for Color Design in Beaverton, OR area. This is a 2 months contract role.
Candidates must have a Portfolio -Looking for creative uses of color
Must Haves:
- 5+ YOE in a creative field utilizing color design
- Production style tech packs - using direction from licensed partners
- Color matching
- Controlling creative detective, making product revisions
- Collaborate with design and business partners
- Review samples and problem solve any color achievability on material issues
Nice to Haves:
- Color Material Finishes (CMF)
- Physical product color, footwear, hard-parts (cleats, etc),
- Following up on samples
- Strong communication skills and providing constructive feedback for others
Description:
- The nature of the work is focused on the appearance of product, communications, or collateral materials.
- Color Design Execution - Plans and executes color designs. Collaborates with design, product marketing, development and material consultants to focus color solutions for market success.
- Reviews all samples to achieve marketable solution review with design, marketing and development.
- Clearly communicates all changes for final confirmation. Displays advanced knowledge and practices in all phases of product execution - shares knowledge with others.
- Maintains color calendar/timelines/deadlines for category/division resulting in the timely completion of each product. Develops line art, color design server, GPIN, merchandising line, cutting samples & working with material consultant to coordinate materials for products.
- Finalizes product details and proactively follows through on execution of color on each product.
- Color Solutions - Creates innovative, retailable color solutions forcategory or gender-specific line. Researches and delivers color, Color Solutions - Creates innovative, retailable color solutions for category or gender-specific line. Researches and delivers color, design, market and lifestyle trends that influence and impact the product category process from product briefing to product concept to samples.
- Explores options and proposes with Color Design Managers and/or senior Color Designers a seasonal color strategy for products, line segments and initiatives. Creates seasonal category-specific direction of color, materials and graphics.
- In partnership with the Category and Design Director, creates and leads color merchandising strategies and stories seasonally.
- Consumer Research - Knows the consumer. Displays in-depth understanding of consumer, brand-positioning needs as it relates to category/division. of consumer, brand-positioning needs as it relates to category/division.
- Utilizes knowledge of category/division consumer & their culture to improve product performance & appearance. Demonstrates strong knowledge about competitor products, consumer retail habits, color, and market trends. Applies insights from consumer perspective into color solutions.
- Presentations & Communication - Presents and communicates category- specific color direction and color merchandising direction of the seasonal line to appropriate groups. Works with design/category to produce presentation materials that effectively communicate color direction related to the consumer, product concepts and creative strategy to internal audiences. Participates and delivers bi-annual category/divisional specific color needs for incorporation into footwear color committee preparation.
- Skill Development - Develops excellence as a color designer. Together with Color Design Manager, advances the value of color to by bringing a high level of functional expertise (i.e. materials, special effects, technology, advanced development, presentation, tools) to the color design organization.
- Educates and mentors more junior designers in category or color design organization. Undertakes projects and opportunities to enhance knowledge of the business, color, and design.
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Job Type: Contract
Pay: $49.00 - $52.00 per hour
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Color Designer: 5 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person