WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

As a member of the product creation team, your role will involve collaborating with both onshore and offshore teams, from Design (Industrial, Material, and Color), Marketing, Innovation, and Product Creation (Product Engineers, Developer, Material, Costing, Footwear Product Testing, Chemical Engineer, Tooling Engineer, Innovation).

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a Senior Product Engineer to join the Global Jordan Footwear Engineering Team!

We seek someone with Footwear product experience to bring products from development to manufacturing and utilize tools and systems to ensure high quality and cost-effectiveness across multiple functions. We seek someone with Footwear experience in a role that requires gaining buy-in from a broad range of product creation teams and/or factory partner stakeholders to improve product manufacturability by leveraging analytics, problem-solving decision-making, and communicating to simplify the complex. Leverage consumer insights to optimize business and product performance through the lens of sustainable growth. Someone who has Innovation experience driving and pursuing trade-offs that have the greatest benefit to business and product. The ability to consider all critical inputs and impacts of decisions. Involve the right stakeholders from the beginning to bring a new tech to life. We seek a self-motivated, quick learner, a strong communicator, positive thinking and a teammate with great self-awareness and strong leadership skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training

• A minimum of 3 years directly relevant work experience

• Knowledge of footwear construction, tooling, pattern engineering and manufacturing processes

• Ability to balance Product Creation, Innovation & Manufacturing is preferred

• Strong creative problem-solving skills

• Project management skills, working with various stakeholders with competing priorities

• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, sketches and/or 3D digital files

• Digital literacy, including familiarity with Microsoft Office, Miro Board, spreadsheets, database management, and proficiency with 2D/3D CAD/CAM tools, and pattern engineering software, is a plus

• Strong written & verbal communication skills

• Ability to travel internationally up to 10%, as needed

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

This role works on product creation, from brief through commercialization, on adult and kids products, with a relentless focus on product excellence. (Craft, Fit, Comfort, Performance, Quality, Sustainability, Cost/Value, Innovation). You will provide early recommendations and technical expertise to cross-functional teams on Tooling, Outsole and Midsole compounds, Plates, Termoplastic injection, product construction techniques, materials, manufacturing processes, sustainability, cost, and chemical engineering solutions (processes, lab testing, MCS, MPS, etc.). Your efforts will facilitate continued growth for the team and the business. By doing so, you will help to prevent potential manufacturing, sustainability, or costing issues. Your junior team members will rely on you to share your expertise and help them understand footwear construction methods and manufacturing, chemical, and lab testing procedures. We are looking to you to provide a multi-solution path approach and creative problem-solving to deliver sustainable product excellence for our consumers.

We are looking for a candidate who can use innovative approaches to new concepts, design new products and processes, read and interpret technical drawings with confidence, and analyze process data to create refined product specifications. You will work on Innovation projects. You will review samples during product creation and commercialization, providing feedback to ensure cost-effective, high-quality deliverables that meet consumer expectations. You will develop new engineering best practices and update existing practices to improve quality, craftsmanship, performance, and efficiency.

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.