Jobs at Designer Brands

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.

Handles merchandise throughout receiving, order fulfillment, inventory location, and shipping processes in a distribution center. Duties include sorting, scanning, inspecting, stacking, transporting, and accurately processing products using warehouse systems and manual equipment. The role requires adherence to OSHA and company safety procedures, physical stamina, basic math, attention to detail, and flexibility to support multiple departments. Warehouse or fulfillment experience is helpful but not required.

Leads multiple retail stores across South Florida, overseeing sales, profitability, staffing, shrink, payroll, customer experience, merchandising, and operations. Recruits, coaches, develops, and retains store leadership teams while managing succession planning and performance. Analyzes business metrics, drives operational standards, partners with Human Resources, and ensures merchandise flow and visual execution support financial goals.

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.

The Allocation Analyst executes inventory allocations for an assigned product category, ensuring products reach the right stores at the right time. Responsibilities include monitoring item and store performance, identifying inventory risks and opportunities, partnering with Merchandising and Planning, maintaining allocation reports, supporting process improvements and automation, and communicating data-driven recommendations to cross-functional teams.

Provides customer and retailer support across phone, email, CRM, warranties, returns, replacements, shipment claims, and issue resolution. Processes wholesale, demo, and retail orders; manages account applications, credits, discounts, payment terms, revisions, and product updates using NetSuite and NuORDER. Builds relationships with sales partners and retailers while supporting office administration, shipping, and cross-functional business needs.

Lead end-to-end athletic footwear development from concept through production. Collaborate with product management, design, engineering, sourcing, costing, and global manufacturing teams to deliver products meeting performance, fit, quality, cost, margin, and timeline goals. Evaluate footwear construction, materials, molds, patterns, grading, prototypes, testing, and manufacturing processes. Maintain tech packs, BOMs, and product data in PLM systems while driving commercialization, risk mitigation, cost analysis, quality improvements, and cross-functional decision-making.

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.

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.

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.