Jobs at Designer Brands

Develops seasonal marketing strategies and integrated campaigns using customer, market, and competitive insights. Collaborates with product marketing, creative, and channel teams to create campaign briefs, messaging, positioning, and customer experiences. Monitors campaign performance, synthesizes findings, communicates recommendations through presentations, and identifies emerging trends. The role manages multiple priorities, supports strategic initiatives, and helps align cross-functional teams around business and brand growth objectives.

Supports end-to-end recruiting coordination, including ATS administration, job postings, candidate tracking, interview scheduling, background checks, offers, I-9 verification, onboarding logistics, recruiting reports, compensation documentation, contractor setup, referrals, vendor invoices, and candidate travel. May also recruit for open positions and manage full-cycle recruiting support. Partners with recruiters, HR business partners, finance, compensation, and hiring managers while maintaining accurate and confidential records.

Design footwear products from concept through commercialization for the Jessica Simpson brand. Responsibilities include trend and consumer research, sketches, CADs, renderings, technical drawings, tech packs, prototype reviews, product refinements, and cross-functional collaboration with Design, Development, Production, Sales, and overseas partners. The role manages multiple seasonal projects, supports commercial product execution, presents design concepts, and may coach Assistant Designers. International travel to trade shows, market appointments, sourcing activities, and business events may be required.

Leads sales strategy and retail partnerships for an assigned handbags brand and key accounts. Responsibilities include developing growth plans, managing assortments, analyzing sales and inventory performance, overseeing profitability and pricing, negotiating margins, collaborating with Design, Production, Planning, and Brand teams, managing budgets, and coaching sales talent. Requires extensive footwear or accessories sales experience, strong retail analytics, account management, leadership, and presentation skills.

Leads the vision, strategy, growth, and profitability of the Keds brand across wholesale, direct-to-consumer, eCommerce, and international channels. Oversees commercial, product, merchandising, marketing, and go-to-market strategies; uses consumer and market insights to drive brand relevance and performance. Builds high-performing teams, aligns cross-functional stakeholders, manages P&L performance, and delivers sales, market share, margin, and profitability objectives.

Own regional wholesale sales strategy for Topo Athletic, managing revenue, margin, sell-through, forecasting, and retail growth. Lead independent and technical sales representatives, build relationships with retail buyers, present collections, secure purchase orders, and coordinate replenishment and marketing initiatives. Use CRM and BI tools to monitor performance and provide market insights. Represent the brand at industry events and community activations. The role requires extensive travel and hybrid work from the Framingham, Massachusetts office.

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 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.

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.