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Adidas SENIOR DESIGNER 
China, Shanghai, Yangpu District 
835023805

12.08.2024

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead the creative development for concept or systems across multiple athlete and consumer touchpoints, from solution/product to the event or to category handover.
  • Develop concepts and creative strategies that fulfill objectives of category-/concept briefs.
  • Collaborate with Creative Direction and category to ensure holistic storytelling on product level.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer- and brand relevance on projects.
  • Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence to the event (consumer facing)/ to the category.
  • Direct variety of creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc.) on creative execution to ensure holistic creative excellence.
  • Review and approve production stages of creative execution.
  • Maximize results within given budget and timeframes.
  • Participate in creation of annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies.
  • Present and communicate creative solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders.
  • Identify opportunities of improvement and change and initiate own proposals/projects.
  • Seek out new design resources that can deliver world class results.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

  • Innovation Design (Directors, Senior Directors, VP)
  • Business Units Design counterparts
  • Cross-functional counterparts in Innovation for product and systems (concept, development, engineering, athlete science, …)
  • Creative Direction organization
  • External creative resources (agencies, freelancers, photographers, etc., …)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

  • IT skills: Outlook, Miro, PowerPoint, Word, Excel
  • Design skills: Sketching, 2D software (Illustrator/photoshop/…), 3D software (i.e Blender, Gravity Sketch, Rhino, …), 3D renders software (i.e. Blender, Keyshot, …), Scripting (grasshopper, AI generated imagery/3D, etc., …)
  • Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create relevant and

impactful Design solutions

  • Art direction of photoshoots, pre-press reviews and approvals
  • Language: English: excellent
  • Another European language: fluent

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Under-graduate level design educationor combination thereof
  • Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development

of communication tools

  • At least 6-8 years’ experience in sporting goods/fashion industry or design related industry on managerial level
  • Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, athlete interactions, pre-press processes)
  • Passion for adidas and its mission.
  • Passion forsports, culture, design