Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As our Senior Footwear Cost Engineer, you will ensure every product meets the high performance and quality standards that our athletes deserve, while ensuring we hit or exceed our margin targets. You will be an integral member of our product creation team, and will influence the creation and manufacturing of all new models by ensuring margin and FOB targets are set at the beginning of the product creation process, reviewing cost breakdown sheets at each critical date, and providing suggestions accordingly. You will collaborate with your Arc’teryx, Tier 1 and Tier 2 counterparts in Asia to optimize manufacturing costs, and work with our Sourcing and Materials team to ensure our sourcing strategy and financial targets are aligned. You will create “cheat sheets” and other “self-service” tools and ensure critical steps in our costing process are aligned with our corporate calendar.
This role is based out of our Portland office. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US.
Meet Your Team
Our Product Creation Development team is a dynamic group spread across the globe. It sits within our Supply Chain organization and is a center of excellence partner with our Footwear Business Unit. The Arc’teryx Footwear team creates innovative, aesthetically striking product that exceeds the core mountain athlete’s outdoors needs across climbing, hiking, and trail running categories. We are builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying our athlete’s future needs – then, build, test, and validate products that solve for real functional challenges. We are a passionate collective with a focus on collaborative teamwork, and our vision is to redefine the industry.
If you were in the role of Senior Cost Engineer at ARC’TERYX, here’s what you’d be working on:
Enable teams to hit quality, performance and financial standards by:
Ensuring teams set model-level FOB targets at the beginning of the season
Reviewing CBDs at each critical stage of the product creation process
Providing suggestions on all models to improve margin
Collaborating with the Materials Design and Development to ensure our upper materials strategy is aligned against costing targets.
Collaborating with our Engineering teams in both Portland and Asia to ensure quoted labor and overhead costs for every process are in line with expectations
Fostering deep, collaborative partnerships with Tier 1 and Tier 2 partners to ensure Arc’teryx’s standards and processes are agreed upon and followed.
Leveraging your functional expertise to educate, coach and mentor others
Continuously learn and monitor processes in manufacturing to search for efficiency improvements opportunities
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
Developing and/or identifying the costing tools and processes need to lead us into the digital future
Coaching and mentoring our full product creation team
Evolving our costing processes to ensure we are well positioned for our next phase of growth
Are you our next Senior Footwear Cost Engineer?
- You have at least five years’ experience in cost engineering in the footwear industry, ideally with exposure to manufacturing environments in Asia
You can independently provide suggestions and ideas for improving margins.
You have strong influencing skills, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse cross-functional stakeholders
You set a clear vision, align your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to these objectives
You have basic knowledge of footwear construction, foams and rubbers, manufacturing, and materials
You have excellent communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal
You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions
Most new team members join between the start and midpoint of the range, where you can contribute right away while continuing to grow your craft, your collaborations, and your impact at Arc’teryx. This range reflects market alignment and the scope of the role. Individual pay is determined by your skills, experience, and level of responsibility.
We’re committed to fair, equitable, and competitive pay, reviewed regularly to ensure internal alignment and market relevance. Transparency is part of how we follow through on our commitments and how we honour the value you bring to our team.
In addition to base pay, Arc’teryx supports people through benefits designed to sustain both work and life:
- Health & wellbeing - Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, including mental health support, fertility benefits, and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Financial wellbeing - Immediately vested 401(k) retirement savings plan matching, eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and access to Employee Stock Purchase program (ESPP) where applicable.
- Time & Flexibility - Paid time off and No Wasted Day program (dedicated paid days to get outside & explore).
- Family support - Parental leave for birthing and on-birthing parents, including an option to ease the transition back to work.
- Growth, community & gear - Professional development opportunities, Arc'teryx Academies (outdoor skill-building events), Employee Belonging Councils, and access to employee discounts and Pro Deals (exclusive discounted pricing on gear).
*Eligibility for certain programs may vary by role.
Skills Required
- At least five years' experience in cost engineering in the footwear industry
- Exposure to manufacturing environments in Asia
- Eligible to work in the US
- Ability to independently provide suggestions and ideas for improving margins
- Strong influencing skills and ability to drive cross-functional alignment
- Leadership skills: set vision, align teams, and foster commitment to objectives
- Basic knowledge of footwear construction, foams and rubbers, manufacturing, and materials
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Proactive problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills
- Flexibility and adaptability in ambiguous situations
- Ability to balance autonomy and collaboration
What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running. Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories. In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.
