Jobs at Designer Brands

Develops reporting, analytical tools, and data solutions that support strategic decisions, revenue growth, and operational efficiency. Partners with Customer, Marketing, and Digital teams to analyze customer behavior, identify trends, validate data, and translate complex findings into actionable recommendations for executives and business leaders. Leads cross-functional analytics initiatives, improves processes and methodologies, supports user adoption, and mentors junior analysts.

Lead a small team of Digital Brand Analysts to drive digital growth for assigned brands through advanced reporting, analytics, drop-ship optimization, vendor relationship management, and profitability analysis. Build dashboards, translate data into recommendations, partner cross-functionally, and drive initiatives that improve operational and financial performance.

Lead allocation strategy and execution for assigned categories by analyzing store- and item-level performance, recommending actions to improve inventory productivity and in-stock, developing reporting tools, improving allocation processes and systems, and mentoring allocators while partnering with Merchandising, Planning, and Store Planning.

Lead evaluation and prioritization of new business initiatives across the enterprise. Conduct market and competitive research, build financial models and business cases, develop executive-level presentations, manage cross-functional stakeholder engagement, track initiative pipelines, and support transition from evaluation to execution.

The Brand Marketing Specialist will manage retail marketing programs, create marketing assets, collaborate with wholesale partners, oversee events, and manage project budgets, ensuring alignment with brand goals.

Design, build, and maintain enterprise BI solutions (Strategy/MicroStrategy) in a cloud data warehouse environment. Partner with business and data architecture teams to deliver certified reports, dashboards, and semantic layers. Provide production support, troubleshooting, deployments, documentation, training, and on-call rotation to ensure stable, high-performance analytics for business stakeholders.

Support the Store Manager by supervising and coaching store staff, driving sales and KPIs, managing inventory and omni-channel fulfillment, overseeing scheduling and payroll, resolving customer and associate issues, recruiting and developing talent, and assuming full store responsibility in the manager's absence.

The Industrial Engineer will optimize operations in distribution centers by developing labor standards, improving processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include data analysis, training, and project support to enhance efficiency and performance.

Design and develop commercially relevant footwear from concept through final execution. Create sketches, CADs, tech packs, and presentations; collaborate with development, production, and global partners; review prototypes and samples; manage multiple projects, ensure brand standards, and support product launches and seasonal collections.

Perform risk-based operational, financial, compliance, and internal control audits across stores, distribution centers, e-commerce, and corporate functions. Use data analytics to identify trends and anomalies, document findings, support SOX testing, track remediation, and present recommendations to stakeholders while contributing to audit planning and special projects.

Support handbag design from trend research through product execution. Create sketches, CADs, tech packs, and presentation materials; attend fittings; manage samples; collaborate with cross-functional and overseas teams to ensure seasonal line delivery.

Perform import/export compliance audits (COO, HTS, valuation, FTAs), maintain customs data, manage duty reporting and corrections, analyze large datasets for discrepancies, partner with Finance/Logistics/brokers, provide training, and support export compliance and process improvements.