Designer 2 – Men’s Hike

Department: Design

Reports to: Director, Design

Location: North Vancouver, BC

Your opportunity at Arc’teryx:

As a Designer 2 - Men’s Hike, you design comprehensive apparel solutions that align with the Arc’teryx design philosophies, continuously exceeding our guests’ evolving needs. In this highly technical role, you assist in the continued evolution of how we design and approach our Hike apparel offerings, contributing to innovative, relevant and resolved outcomes that fit within our existing collections. You provide resolved solutions that consider materials, feature set, fit, and style to meet specific needs. You bring your curiosity and passion for snow products to imagine and build innovative, relevant designs.

Key Products You’ll Be Designing For:

• Innovating new products for Men’s hike apparel
• Designing pants, woven garments, knits, fleece, insulation and gore styles

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is expected to be performed on-site. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Meet your future team:

We create innovative apparel solutions that work for a variety of activities such as climbing, snow sports, hiking, and trail running. We are builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying future needs then build, test, and validate products that solve for real functional challenges. We are innovative problem solvers with a focus on collaborative teamwork.

If you were in the Designer 2 – Men's Hike role now, here are some of the core activities you would be responsible for:

• Creating and executing assigned product designs within seasonal timelines to complement existing collections as well as future advanced R&D projects when required
• Contributing to the commercialization of innovative technologies including materials, pattern/part shaping and construction techniques for existing and product categories
• Creating mockups and prototypes to explore, resolve, or prove new concepts or construction techniques
• Providing detailed product initiations to Product Development, including spec drawings, pattern and fit direction, and material information
• Collaborating with the Fit & Pattern Team to resolve fit style and construction issues and ensure a fully commercialized product
• Coordinating with the Raw Materials team to test new materials and ensure that necessary items are available for prototyping
• Developing and maintaining a thorough understanding of the materials and manufacturing techniques that Arc’teryx works with
• Collaborating closely with other Designers to bring new and better toolbox solutions that benefit the brand (such as new technologies, construction techniques, features, etc.)
• Staying up to date with industry trends, collaborating with Arc’teryx athletes and other industry representatives to help ensure Arc’teryx is exceeding our guests’ evolving needs
• Assisting with current product design changes where necessary to address in-line production issues
• Supporting the Design Director in developing a schedule for the flow of the line plan through all development stages, including charting line plan progress
• Partnering with Development Team Manager to gain visibility into cost estimates, MOQs and LOM concerns throughout concepting and prototyping for seasonal products
• Presenting at internal meetings, design reviews and seasonal stage gates, annual seasonal handoffs and other product meetings as required
• Attending tradeshows, company events as well as sourcing and development vendor visits as required

Here are some things you could be working on in the future:

• Owning and overseeing all aspects of model creation - from ethos, to plans, through to production, you could grow to oversee hike products
• Partnering directly with athletes on product evolutions, feedback insights and relationship building

Are you our next Designer 2 – Men's Hike?  

• You have a degree in apparel design and 5+ years hands-on experience designing clothing
• You have intermediate knowledge, skill and ability in the technical design process, sewing and garment construction
• You are technically proficient with 3-5 years’ experience using the Adobe Suite
• You have proven technical and creative skills to build tech packs, communicate your ideas and you have a solid understanding of garment construction
• You have the capability to create tools and construction methods to assist in solving construction issues
• You are a collaborative communicator, keen to create relationships and spaces for ideation and product exploration
• You demonstrate initiative, agility, and commitment, while balancing autonomy and collaboration
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity, and thrive in a fast paced, diverse, ever evolving and values led environment
• You have strong planning, organizational, problem solving and decision-making skills
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues, seeking the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it