Jordan Design is where creative possibility meets purpose. It’s a place for builders, boundary-breakers, and vision-setters — people who move with conviction, think originally, and create work shaped by real experience and cultural depth. Our team thrives when imagination, discipline, and collaboration come together. We look for leaders who bring their full creative voice, who understand the communities that inspire us, and who are driven to shape the future for the next generation of Jordan athletes and fans.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

As an Expert Material & Color Designer in Jordan Energy, you will be partnering with the product design and development teams (Jordan Footwear  Design, Color Design, Graphic Design, Digital Design and Development teams) in bringing to life the Creative Direction through Footwear Materials & Color Design, plus Innovation. This role will not have direct reports, reporting directly to the Jordan Sr. Design Director, Color & Material Excellence, with a dotted line to the Global Sr. Creative Director of Jordan Energy

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for an exceptional Footwear Color & Material Design Expert to combine their experience, problem-solving abilities, and creativity to help create the future of Jordan Energy Footwear.  The ideal Expert Color & Material Designer will create the right color & material direction to excite the next generation of top designers and athletes that work with us. Working on collaborative and non-collaborative projects to drive edge and innovation for Jordan Energy.

In this role, you’ll need high taste level and fluency in ways of working with high-caliber collaborators and partners to co-create and build trust in support of product excellence. You’re a curious observer, an eager participant and a cultural sponge, constantly seeking insights to solve problems in unexpected ways. You possess a visionary eye for design and a fearless approach to innovation. You create work that disrupts, excites and redefines. You think differently. You thrive in collaboration, seamlessly translating between our work and those of our external partners to deliver culture-driving, innovative functional and aesthetic solutions.

• Bachelor's degree in Design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
• 8+ years of relevant design experience exemplifying ability to push material design, and/or relevant experience in Textile, Color and/or Product Design
• Ability to create concepts and explore new Materials innovations and technologies
• Understanding of color trends, color compatibility, and color limitations
• Proven collaboration with manufacturing partners including: materials/fabrics/finishes/applications and constructions, etc.
• Experience building inspiration/concept presentations, and mood boards for seasonal concepts and narrative direction
• Ability to create and edit files using Adobe Suite programs including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Digitial platform exploration : Gravity Sketch, Vizcom, CLO are a plus
• Highly organized and self-sufficient with a solution-oriented approach to execution
• Strong verbal, written, visual, and high-profile communication skills in local market language, including meeting facilitation and presentations
• Ability to collaborate with and effectively manage external creative partners
• Keen sense of design and youth culture trends, with ability to translate insight into narrative and product execution
• Contribute and align to shared team culture and behaviors
• Speaks up with courage for self and the team
• Comfort with ambiguity with a solution-oriented mindset
• Open minded, good listener, receptive to candid feedback and diverse points of view

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

Your day to day job will be partnering with leadership, working on future materials and methods of make on key projects, creating partnerships with Footwear product designers, Color Design, Developers, and Product Line Managers to name a few. Your responsibilities will be co-creating design direction and dimensional strategy, curating and elevating existing materials to exploring a broad range of material innovations. You will be partnering with both external collaborators, partners and internal teams to build project narratives and color and materials palettes. From concepting, and ideating all the way to finalizing tech packs, presentations and working with vendors and manufacturing partners. The daily responsibilities of this role are wide-ranging, highly demanding, and rewarding.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.