GLOBAL WOMENS FOOTWEAR – GRAPHIC DESIGN
ABOUT CONVERSEAre you interested in working for the most iconic and well-loved sneaker brand in the world? Born in sports and made for the street, Converse is a place to explore your potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. We seek people who can lead, grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. Converse seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing their authentic self, skills, and passion to serve the daring spirit of youth.ABOUT OUR TEAMBecome part of the Converse Team
Converse is a place where you can be at work AND be yourself. It’s a place to be creative, to come up with cool new ideas and to work with a friendly and welcoming team. 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.
The Product Creation team has a one-team mentality across a multitude of specialties - Trend and Concept, Footwear Design, Merchandising, Product Development and Business Operations - collectively driven to deliver the Converse consumers with the best products possible and advance the independent spirit of youth.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for a Graphic Designer for the Global Womens Footwear team. The person who fills this role will be a key player on our team – delivering design solutions for Women with the primary focus of creating new graphics across a wide range of illustration styles and applying these graphics to footwear along with consideration of color, materialization and the opportunity for new creation.
The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who’s ready and willing to work in a team environment. They need to have the ability to create versatile graphic design solutions that are trend-right for a range of consumer segments. In this role they will be responsible for a portion of the team’s design work which fluctuates by season and need, executing multiple projects with organization, attention to detail and good time management.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
If this ideal candidate is you, you’ll be working with our Chuck Taylor Design Director, the Women’s design team and other cross-functional partners such as Product Merchandisers and Developers to create graphics and apply them to Womens shoes for multiple seasons each year. You’ll be receiving and interpreting briefs, ideating on creative solutions that hit the brief, sharing your ideas via mood boards and CADs within collaborative environments, as well as working to make those solutions a reality through Illustrator documents, material exploration, and responsible costing.
Your typical day involves self-directed designing with check-ins as needed with various team members. Creative output ranges from ideating on multiple design solutions to creating technical specifications in our tech pack format for the Development Team to prepare for manufacturing. You are able to direct your own workflow and manage your workload with a proactive goal-oriented mindset, but you will always have support from your manager and teammates.WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will be reporting to the Lead Designer of Chuck Taylor Womens, and you will be close teammates with them and the rest of the Inline Design Team. You will be working cross functionally with the Womens Triad, made up of Product Merchants (responsible for the business, briefs and merchandizing the line) and the Development Team (responsible for creating technically sound and manufacturable footwear). We work as one team where everyone’s voice is respected, and we work together toward shared goals. We also get trend and creative direction from the Trend team and the Creative Director, work with other designers across categories, and have several all-design events and milestones.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Graphic design experience that includes versatile illustration skills
- An excellent eye for design and high taste level
- A creative spirit and a willingness to iterate
- A collaborative approach that can work well in teams
- Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator
- 2+ years experience in the Footwear Industry
- Knowledge of Footwear graphics executions / applications
- Ability to build footwear collections
- Strong knowledge of how to apply color to a collection
- Knowledge of footwear trends
- Versatile artwork creation skills across multiple styles / mediums
- Organization and attention to detail
- Strong presentation skills
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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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is complemented by options such as a Mega Backdoor Roth and deferred compensation for eligible earners. Financial coaching and structured savings programs support long-term financial security.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a stock discount sits alongside broad-based equity vehicles like RSUs and non-qualified stock options. These avenues expand wealth-building opportunities beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes maternity and paternity time, recently expanded in the U.S. to 16 weeks and extended to part-time retail teammates. Additional supports include childcare assistance at select locations and family-building benefits such as fertility, surrogacy, and adoption.
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