Women's Footwear Designer Jobs

TOMS is in business to improve lives. When you wear or work with TOMS, you help fund access to mental health resources for the millions of people who need them.

About the Role:

The TOMS Women's Footwear Designer will create modern, unique footwear styles and color ways that reflect the TOMS aesthetic while bringing innovation and moving the business forward in a trend-relevant manner. An understanding of the current and future TOMS Women's consumer is essential. In collaboration with the Creative Director, Sr Designer, design team, Merchandisers, and Product Developers, the Women's Footwear Designer will identify seasonal trends, silhouettes, materializations, and color palettes to create our Women's inline footwear collections.

What You'll Do:

• Creating concepts, sketches, and color CADs for the inline Women's footwear collection. Design/Engineer products that remain true to TOMS’ brand identity. Innovate and design while keeping our target price point, margins, and consumer in mind.
• Color and materials – contribute to materials and color selections for the season
• Market Shop – Research market relevant brands at retail and Ecomm platforms and share insights with the Design and Merchandise team.
• Presenting collections – Present designs from sketches, color cads, and pullovers to the Merchandise and Sales teams at key milestone meetings.
• Creating Tech Packs – Create technical specifications for uppers, outsole and trims. In collaboration with our Product Developers, modify pullovers, outsoles, and trim through the development stage. Create sample requests for each milestone.
• Researching Trends – Maintain knowledge of global product design, fashion market trends, technology, and graphics - particularly in lifestyle markets and brands. Research trends in the marketplace globally and create trend boards in tandem with the entire Design team for the two selling seasons. Present trends with the Design team to the larger organization.

What You Bring:

• A portfolio of work samples along with your application
• 3-5 years’ experience hand sketching skills- footwear specific
• 3-5 years’ experience with Adobe suite: Illustrator, Photoshop
• Commitment to making kindness in business a standard

What We Give:

• Employee Discount on all of our products plus discounts on partnering businesses
• Opportunities to volunteer with Impact Partners and Community Organizations
• $88,000 – 95,000 depending on experience, plus an annual bonus based on the company's performance
• A generous PTO policy + 12 paid annual holidays + one floating holiday
• Hybrid work environment - work from home most days and come into the office when you need to (you can bring your pup too!)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401K with company matching
• Anti-Racism educational opportunities, including company-wide days of learning
• A $600 stipend when you join to furnish your home office how you like, plus $100 annually to refresh your supplies and gear
• Wellness classes & resources (mental health, exercise, parenting, personal finance, nutrition, etc.)
• Half-Size Fridays: enjoy weekends starting at noon each Friday
• 4 free pairs of shoes per year (yes, free!)

Don't meet every single requirement? We still encourage you to apply! Studies show that women, non-binary applicants, and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. However, at TOMS, our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, identities, and talents help us thrive.

TOMS is a proud B Corporation and a member of the Fair Labor Association. We're committed to transparent and equitable compensation, benefits, and opportunities.

EEO Statement: TOMS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to intentional anti-racism in all areas of our organization and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with the L.A. Fair Chance Initiative Ordinance.