Footwear Product Designer

Cella is hiring a Footwear Product Designer for a contract role based onsite in Beaverton, Oregon. In this position, you will help move high-performance cleated footwear concepts from early ideation into validated proof of concept and eventual retail readiness, working alongside cross-functional partners to bring innovation through to reality.

Role summary

This contract design role centers on driving innovative footwear concepts for performance-focused products. You will ideate and define testing or proof of concept scope, engineer prototypes, and lead innovation efforts with multi-disciplinary teams that can include product creation, manufacturing, and third-party vendors.

What you’ll do

• Generate new perspectives on performance-focused product elements that can open growth opportunities and strengthen competitive advantages in the marketplace.
• Collaborate with product creation to shape and align new product concept genesis across business units.
• Define testing protocol and establish the scope of testing required to prove and validate a concept.
• Translate concrete insights into advanced product concept development using new technologies or construction processes.
• Deliver proof of concept by bringing concepts and new product visions into reality.
• Identify key components of product construction materials and processes.
• Engineer prototypes to support concept development and validation.
• Lead innovation projects that convert concept ideation into reality through work with, or alongside, multi-disciplinary teams including product creation, manufacturing, and 3rd party vendors.
• Approach complex challenges with imaginative, state-of-the-art methods supported by feasible solutions.

What you bring

• 7+ years of experience.
• A portfolio with required submissions; candidates will be disqualified without it.
• Ability to run projects independently with a technical, performance-driven mindset.
• Strong concept-building capabilities.
• Adobe Suite skills, including Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Flexibility and maturity to pivot and prioritize responsibilities as needed.
• Comfort working in ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

Technologies

• Adobe Suite
• Illustrator
• Photoshop

Helpful advantages

• 3D rendering experience.
• Use of AI tools (example provided: Vizcom) for conceptual generation.
• Experience operating within a large, matrix organization.

Compensation and location

The contract role is onsite in Beaverton, OR, with an hourly salary range of USD 51 - 56.

Benefits

• Medical
• Prescription
• Dental
• Vision
• AD&D
• Life insurance offerings
• Short-term disability
• 401K plan