Vice President, Global Footwear Design & Innovation
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Your opportunity at Arc’teryx: As Vice President, Global Footwear Design & Innovation, you are the architect of the creative and technical future of Arc’teryx Footwear. You define and lead an integrated vision that unites design, innovation, performance, and sustainability—shaping footwear that is industry leading from both an aesthetic and technical perspective. This role sits at the intersection of human-centered design, athlete-led innovation, materials science, and brand storytelling. You set the long-term creative and innovation agenda, translating insight into differentiated footwear platforms that elevate performance, express our design ethos, and scale across seasons and categories. From early-stage exploration through handoff to partners in Supply Chain, you ensure that innovation moves fast, design is uncompromising, and the story is clear—advancing both the brand and the business. You lead a world-class global team and partner deeply across Design, Product Management, Development, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Merchandising, and Brand to deliver footwear that redefines what’s possible in the outdoors.
Meet your future team: The Arc’teryx Global Footwear team creates innovative, beautiful product that exceeds the core mountain athlete’s needs in the outdoors 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 Vice President, Global Footwear Design & Innovation role now, here are some of the core activities you would be responsible for:
Define and own a unified global vision for footwear design and innovation, aligned to Arc’teryx brand strategy and long-term business objectives
Establish and drive a multi-year creative and innovation roadmap, balancing breakthrough thinking with commercial rigor
Identify emerging opportunities across performance, biomechanics, materials science, sustainability, and digital product creation
Create, champion, and evolve the end-to-end design ethos and visual identity of Arc’teryx Footwear across form, materials, colour, and graphics
Inspire world-class design concepts grounded in athlete insight, consumer relevance, and technical performance
Ensure a cohesive and elevated design expression that connects footwear across categories and aligns with the broader Arc’teryx creative vision
Lead the creation of scalable innovation platforms—including cushioning systems, tooling architectures, upper constructions, and material solutions
Drive early-stage exploration, experimentation, prototyping, and validation while ensuring innovations deliver clear performance and consumer value
Ensure innovation is scalable, manufacturable, and integrated seamlessly into inline product
Listed November 7, 2026. Sourced from the original posting. D1S1 is not the employer and does not process applications.
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