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Converse is a place to explore potential, break barriers and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. 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.
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WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
This Senior Manager guides the Footwear Product Engineering team across assigned categories and franchises, building engineering capability and technical standards. They work across Design, Development, Product Testing and other technical teams, while strengthening connections among Converse headquarters, Asia Product Creation teams, factories, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Converse is looking for a technical footwear Senior Manager who can turn ambitious creative concepts into beautiful, comfortable, high-quality, manufacturable product. This leader connects creative intent and consumer experience with footwear engineering, manufacturing science, product performance, and commercial realities. They bring deep expertise across footwear construction, pattern engineering, lasts, tooling, materials, compounds, and manufacturing, along with a strong understanding of fit, comfort, quality, performance, and product integrity. They are a proven people leader with strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills who can translate complex technical issues into clear product and business decisions. They collaborate and influence across creative, technical, commercial, and manufacturing functions and bring a curious, innovative, solution-oriented approach to global product creation.
What you bring:
- 8+ years footwear engineering and manufacturing experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, product design, industrial design, footwear, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- Demonstrated people leadership and talent-development capability, supported by strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with global Product Creation Centers, factories, suppliers, and cross-cultural teams.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
You’ll lead Footwear Product Engineering across assigned categories and franchises, connecting product vision with the engineering required to bring it to life at scale. You’ll build technical capability, solve complex product challenges, strengthen global manufacturing partnerships, and advance the methods and technologies shaping Converse Product Creation.
- Lead and develop the Footwear Product Engineering team, setting clear expectations and strengthening technical standards, capability, and succession.
- Establish technical strategies that enable Design and Development to deliver product intent at scale across pattern engineering, lasts, fit, tooling, compounds, constructions, materials, manufacturing methods, and product performance.
- Partner with Development from early concept through commercialization to identify risks earlier and engineer effective solutions.
- Drive product quality, consistency, fit, comfort, manufacturability, and commercialization readiness while leading complex technical problem-solving and root-cause resolution.
- Advance digital engineering, 3D, and emerging product creation technologies, partnering with Product Testing and technical teams to translate testing and consumer insights into engineering improvements.
- Balance product performance and design intent with cost, quality, sustainability, and manufacturing capability while strengthening connectivity among Converse headquarters, Asia Product Creation teams, factories, and suppliers.
- Establish and evolve engineering standards, technical documentation, best practices, and product creation methods while representing Engineering in strategic cross-functional initiatives.
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.
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01 Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
03 Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
