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
- 5+ years experience in cost engineering in the footwear industry
- Eligibility to work in the US (must be authorized)
- Ability to set model-level FOB targets and review cost breakdowns independently
- Basic knowledge of footwear construction, foams, rubbers, manufacturing, and materials
- Strong influencing and stakeholder alignment skills across cross-functional teams
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Proactive root-cause problem solving and solution development
- Experience collaborating with Tier 1 and Tier 2 manufacturing partners (Asia experience ideal)
- Coaching, mentoring, and ability to educate others on costing processes
