Skims Color Design 3Hybrid

Title: Skims Color Design 3

Location: Playa Vista, CA

Duration: 6 month contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The nature of the work is focused on the appearance of product, communications, or collateral materials.

Color Design Execution:

• Executes color designs.
• Finalizes product details and proactively follows through on execution of color on each product.
• Actively seeks expert input from color design and category organizations to develop appropriate solutions.
• Reviews all samples to achieve marketable solution; reviews with design, marketing, and development.
• Clearly communicates all changes for final confirmation.
• Responsible for color in the final product result. Maintains color calendar/timelines/deadlines for category.
• Develops line art, color design server, GPIN, PDM, merchandising line, cutting samples and working with material consultant to coordinate materials for products.

Product Planning:

• Plans product details.
• Collaborates with design, product marketing and development/material consultant to focus color solutions for market success.

Gathers category specific information:

• Consumer/channels/market.
• Develops appropriate solutions with regard to quality, cost/value, manufacturability, sustainability, merchandising solutions for market success.

Color Solutions:

• Creates and executes innovative, retail able color solutions for category or gender-specific line.
• Together with Color Design Director, Sr. Color Designer or Color Designer II, creates seasonal category-specific direction of color, materials and graphics that reflect design philosophy, product performance, and appeal to targeted consumers.
• Comfortably creates category line each season.
• Understands color, design, market and lifestyle trends that influence and impact category and applies knowledge as appropriate.

Consumer Research:

• Knows the consumer and their culture.
• Understands consumer and brand positioning needs.
• Knows and studies competitor products, consumer retail habits, color and market trends.
• Applies insights from consumer perspective into color solutions.

Presentations & Communication:

• Presents and communicates category specific color direction and color merchandising direction of the seasonal line to appropriate groups as needed.

Skill Development:

• Develops excellence as a color designer.
• Together with Color Designers and Sr. Designers, advances the value of color to Nike by growing the level of functional expertise (i.e. materials, special effects, technology, advanced development, presentation, and tools).
• Proactively works with management to advance and build color design skills, experiences, and product & process knowledge.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Typically requires a Bachelors Degree and minimum of 2-4 years directly relevant work experience
• Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 1 yr; Masters + 0-3 yrs; Associates degree + 1-3 yrs; High School + 3-5 yrs.