Designer II, Advanced Footwear Design, Visual Brand + CMF Design
Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line.
Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation.
Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success:
Runner First
We act in the best interest of the runner
Word is Bond
We do what we say we’ll do
Champion Heart
We give our all in everything we do
There is no “I” in Run
We stay generous with our humanity
Keep Moving
We find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic!
We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement - because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.
Your Job:
As a Brooks Running Designer 2, Advanced Footwear Design, Visual Brand + CMF Design, you will help shape future seasonal product through thoughtful integration of identity markers, color, materials, finishes, and graphic storytelling. The role focuses on elevating franchise visuals, exploring scalable methods of product expression, and creating compelling CMF components that inform future seasonal toolboxes and inline product creation.
In this role, you will establish and build relationships with material vendors and factories across the globe. Through your keen design expertise and understanding of the power of brand expression, trends, consumer tastes, and style preferences, you will design into componentry, materials, and style-level CMF packages to help drive aesthetic across design toolboxes to ensure individual styles meet Brooks’s Crafted Beauty quality standards. Scope of design solutions will range from identity markers, footwear graphic exploration, future material, trim, and treatment packages to the analysis, creation, and coloration of post-process elements, details, finishes, paints for performance and aesthetic.
Working closely with the Senior Manager, Advanced Footwear Design, CMF, and cross-functional partners across Design, Innovation, Materials Development, Product Development, Product Line Management, and Color, you will contribute to future-focused concepts and seasonal CMF toolboxes that align with Brooks' performance vision and Crafted Beauty standards.
You will leverage both traditional and emerging visualization tools to communicate design intent with speed, clarity, and inspiration, enabling rapid exploration and decision-making throughout the product creation process.