SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
GLOBAL//CLOSER TO MARKET FOOTWEAR – GRAPHIC DESIGN

ABOUT CONVERSE

Are you interested in working for the most iconic and well-loved sneaker brand in the world? Born in sports and made for the street, Converse is a place to explore your potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. We seek people who can lead, grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. Converse seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing their authentic self, skills, and passion to serve the daring spirit of youth.

ABOUT OUR TEAM

Converse is a place where you can be at work AND be yourself. It’s a place to be creative, to come up with cool new ideas and to work with a friendly and welcoming team. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.

The Product Creation team has a one-team mentality across a multitude of specialties - Trend and Concept, Footwear Design, Merchandising, Product Development and Business Operations - collectively driven to deliver the Converse consumers with the best products possible and advance the independent spirit of youth.   

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Senior Graphic Designer for the Global Closer to Market team (level: Designer 3). The person who fills this role will be a key player on our team – delivering design solutions across Men’s, Women’s and Kids categories. The primary focus will be placed on creating new graphics across a wide range of illustration styles and applying these graphics to footwear along with consideration of color, materialization and the opportunity for new creation.

The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who’s ready and willing to work in a team environment. They need to have the ability to create versatile graphic design solutions that are trend-right for a range of consumer segments. In this role they will be responsible for a portion of the team’s design work which fluctuates by season and need, executing multiple projects with organization, attention to detail and good time management.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this ideal candidate is you, you’ll be working with our Closer to Market Design Director, the Closer to Market design team and other cross-functional partners such as Product Merchandisers and Developers to create graphics and apply them to footwear for multiple seasons each year. You’ll be receiving and interpreting briefs, ideating on creative solutions that hit the brief, sharing your ideas via mood boards and CADs within collaborative environments, as well as working to make those solutions a reality through Illustrator documents, material exploration, and responsible costing.  

Your typical day involves self-directed designing with check-ins as needed with various team members. Creative output ranges from ideating on multiple design solutions to creating technical specifications in our tech pack format for the Development Team to prepare for manufacturing. You are able to direct your own workflow and manage your workload with a proactive goal-oriented mindset, but you will always have support from your manager and teammates.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will be reporting to the Design Director of the Global Closer to Market Team, and working closely with the designers dedicated to that team. You will be working cross-functionally with the full team triad, made up of Product Merchants (responsible for the business, briefs and merchandizing the line) and the Development Team (responsible for creating technically sound and manufacturable footwear). We work as one team where everyone’s voice is respected, and we work together toward shared goals. We also get trend and creative direction from the Trend team and Creative Director, work with designers across other categories, and have several all-design events and milestones.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5+ years of experience in the Footwear Industry
• Strong organizational skills
• Graphic design experience that includes versatile illustration skills
• A high taste level with an excellent eye for design
• Ability to create trend relevant graphics across ALL categories: Men, Women, Kids
• A creative spirit and a willingness to iterate
• A collaborative approach that can work well in teams
• Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator
• The ability to work across multiple timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of Footwear graphics executions / applications
• Ability to build footwear collections
• Strong knowledge of how to apply color to a collection
• Knowledge of footwear trends
• Versatile artwork creation skills across multiple styles / mediums
• Strong presentation skills

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.