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If you're interested in a job in the sneaker industry, there is no shortage of opportunities. Whether you have years worth of related experience, or are just getting your start, there's a wide array of possibilities out there from retail, to design, to even internships. Check out these selections which we've broken down into five categories, and you might find your next (or first) step in the industry.
Design Jobs
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Brand: Nike
Position: Color Designer 2
Location: Portland, OR
Description: Elevates the Nike product experience with a focus on both the art & science of Color. Drive color excellence through the connection of design, development and manufacturing. Brings to life the seasonal category color direction that is trend relevant to the category consumer through color application.
Brand: adidas
Position: Senior Designer Footwear, Originals
Location: Portland, OR
Description: Executes design direction for the brand. Establishes the design direction for the category; maintains and nurtures the design direction through communication with the Design team, Development, Marketing, and the consumer.
Brand: Nike
Position: Color Advisor Team NBA
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: As our Color Advisor, you'll be responsible for utilizing your color process knowledge to provide technical advice to Category Design, Product Management, and Development teams. For your assigned categories you will lead Color Risk Assessment, address color achievability issues, advise on colorfastness, and help approve cross-dyes, prints, or any color that needs category team review. In addition, you'll train category teams on color processes and help to drive process improvements within the color team. Other core responsibilities include color matching across multiple sources and substrates and ensuring color buy readiness.
Brand: Reebok
Position: Creative Director - Footwear & Apparel
Location: Canton, MA
Description: The Creative Director will partner with the GM’s and BU heads to ensure the design strategy for footwear, apparel, accessories, graphics, trend and color design is understood across all product category lines in order to allow for commercial success. Overall responsibility for the creation of global design strategy and implementation of design standards in Canton and Barcelona.
Brand: adidas
Position: Director Future Performance Innovation, Basketball
Location: Portland, OR
Description: To address sport science, and athlete performance needs know-how within the creation of innovative sports product concepts. Co-manage and lead basketball innovation projects to be integrated into the product line and overall vision of the category.
Brand: Nike
Position: Digital Artist 1
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: With direction from Design management, a Nike Apparel Digital Artist uses his/her design skills to create digital product representations. This designer has experience effectively creating 3D illustrations, and is responsible for the deployment of tools and processes to support all aspects of the Product Creation process.
Brand: PUMA
Position: Graphic Designer
Location: Boston, MA
Description: As member of the Boston based, Regional Creation Center, incumbent will design and develop the graphic language and embellishments to complement product created for the North American and Latin American regions.
Brand: Reebok
Position: Senior Designer, Graphics
Location: Canton, MA
Description: The position is responsible for researching trends, ideation of new concepts and creating compelling graphics to meet the brand aesthetic. The Graphic Senior Designer works with the graphics team to ensure that each placed graphic or print meets the categories product brief and the seasonal design direction set by the Creative Director and Senior Management team.
Brand: adidas
Position: Senior Footwear Designer, Basketball
Location: Portland, OR
Description: Conceptualize and design ranges in the specific category. Maintain design consistency throughout the product line from the direction outlined by Design Director / Head of Design. Helps to create the overall category design direction.
Brand: Foot Locker
Position: Manager Of Store Design
Location: New York, NY
Description: Ability to conceptualize and develop new prototype store designs and store fixture initiatives that convey Foot Locker’s current and future initiatives.
Administrative Jobs
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Brand: adidas
Position: Manager, Human Resources
Location: Portland, OR
Description: Manage the HR business relationship for the Field Organization in the areas of employee relations, performance management, salary and rewards management, recruitment issue/resolution, and program support.
Brand: Eastbay
Position: Customer Care Associate
Location: Wausau, WI
Description: Providing Customer service over the phone to help customers place orders, catalog requests, answer questions about product availability and order shipments.
Brand: PUMA
Position: Assistant, Payroll
Location: Westford, MA
Description: This role reports into the Manager, Payroll & HRIS, and is accountable for accurate and timely processing of multi-state weekly and semi-monthly payrolls for approximately 2,000+ Corporate and Retail Store employees at PUMA North America, Inc.
Brand: Nike
Position: Strategic Planning Manager, Global Jordan Brand
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: As our Manager of Strategy, Global Jordan Brand, you'll support the Director of Strategy, Global Jordan Brand in managing the strategic business planning process, reporting on weekly/monthly/quarterly results and opportunities, authoring 1 to 3+ year strategic and business plans, organizing and managing key strategic meetings, and working with other Jordan teammates and the Jordan leadership team to drive a strategic agenda.
Brand: PUMA
Position: Junior Staff Accountant
Location: Boston, MA
Description: This position will support various aspects of the financial cycle including, but not limited to; assisting in the year end audit, half year review, monthly financial close and general accounting responsibilities.
Brand: Nike
Position: Senior Administrative Assistant
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: As our Senior Administrative Assistant you'll perform a wide range of administrative duties, including preparing correspondence; producing, editing and reformatting documents; preparing expense reports and purchase orders; updating organizational charts; coordinating department or equipment moves; and providing support to a large diverse team of people with a variety of management styles.
Brand: adidas
Position: Financial/Inventory Analyst
Location: Portland, OR
Description: Supports the financial analysis and KPI measurement for assigned Area or Away Game (Key Account). Acts as business partner to Area Finance Director and assigned commercial leader. Provides reporting and analysis of performance against plan to ensure goals are delivered.
Marketing Jobs
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Brand: Under Armour
Position: Director, Outdoor Marketing
Location: Baltimore, MD
Description: The leader in this role will direct go-to-market strategies, positioning and activation plans for specific category business units of Under Armour.
Brand: Converse
Position: Digital Marketing Manager
Location: Boston, MA
Description: Through collaboration with your regional counterparts, digital managers (US, Europe and China), global marketing teams and select agency partners, your goal is to elevate our programs by playing smartly and creatively - ultimately helping to build Converse into a brand that has the digital space mastered.
Brand: Nike
Position: Global Communications Director, Nike Skateboarding
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: Our Global Communications Director leads and drives the Nike brand’s global communication for Nike Skateboarding (SB) and supports all key performance categories to expand sport and connect to culture.
Brand: PUMA
Position: Senior Head of Consumer Marketing
Location: Boston, MA
Description: Define the global brand strategy for direct to consumer communications channels - PR, Social Media, Consumer Engagements, Media and Events.
Brand: Nike
Position: Womens College Sports Marketing Manager
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: As our Manager of Women's College Basketball, you'll be the point-person for the Women's College Basketball and concentrate on relationship building, service, and strategy implementation. You'll cement the bond between Nike and key coaches and their programs through attention to service detail, personal relationship building, basketball knowledge and intuition.
Brand: Nike
Position: Retail Brand Account Marketing Manager, Jordan North America
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: As our Retail Brand Account Marketing Manager, you’ll forge, develop and maintain strategic relationships with our wholesale partners that drive retail opportunities for our consumer.
Brand: Reebok
Position: SEO Marketing Specialist
Location: Canton, MA
Description: This individual will be responsible for managing the strategy, measurement, and execution of SEO efforts and will play a pivotal role as we look to aggressively grow our eCommerce business.
Retail Jobs
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Brand: ASICS
Position: Brand Ambassador
Location: Ohio
Description: Reporting directly into the Brand Ambassador Manager, the Brand Ambassador is responsible for representing and disseminating the core values of the ASICS brand. They will conduct technical product training for sales associates to create added value.
Brand: Foot Locker
Position: Security Guard
Location: New York, NY
Description: Reporting to the Team Leader, Lead Detective, and Store Detective, incumbent will be responsible for securing the stationed Foot Locker store.
Brand: New Balance
Position: Flagship Retail Store Manager
Location: Boston, MA
Description: Represent New Balance’s history and heritage to guests through superior execution of the demonstration area, tours, and other events. Achieve profitable sales results and promote superior customer service by managing the daily operations of the retail store.
Brand: Foot Locker
Position: Assistant Manager
Location: New York, NY
Description: You enjoy coaching and teaching your team to continually improve how they deliver a great In-Store Customer Experience, and you’re now ready to start leading the team with all aspects of the Customer Experience, including: store operations, training, employee management, visual merchandising and asset protection. In the absence of the Store Manager, you will assume all managerial duties.
Brand: New Balance
Position: Shoe Ambassador
Location: Boston, MA
Description: As a Shoe Ambassador, you will be responsible for learning every aspect of shoe assembly and building shoes to meet production and quality standards. You will share your knowledge with store guests and associates and serve as the go-to person for footwear products and technology.
Brand: PUMA
Position: Retail Store Manager
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: The Retail Store Manager will strategically manage and promote sales culture within a Retail Store to achieve or exceed sales, KPIs, and profitability goals to position PUMA as the most desirable and sustainable sports brand in the world.
Brand: adidas
Position: Retail District Manager
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: Provide leadership for a geography or format-based group of stores to meet or exceed all sales and profit targets for the district. Coaching Area and Store Managers to drive commercial success and excel in customer service. Ensure proper execution of established policies, procedures, initiatives and directives.
Brand: Nike
Position: Factory Store, Department Manager
Location: Chicago, IL
Description: As our Nike Retail Store Coach, your mission will be to create an environment that will provide a premium consumer and employee experience and implementing/executing programs to drive business results.
Brand: Champs
Position: Shift Manager
Location: New York, NY
Description: Assisting in the day-to-day store operations, you are responsible for knowing and achieving personal productivity goals to division's productivity standards. In the absence of the store manager and assistant manager, you will assume all managerial duties.
Brand: adidas
Position: Assistant Store Manager
Location: New York, NY
Description: Contributes to store profitability by ensuring KPIs for a defined area within the store are met or exceeded. The core expectations include coordinating team members to provide the best possible balance of service and operations, resulting in a leading shopping experience.
Technology Jobs
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Brand: Eastbay
Position: 360 Photo Technician
Location: Wausau, WI
Description: The core responsibility of the 360 Photo Technician is to capture 360 / spin images of physical products for use across all banners and any other media related projects including but not limited to: web sites, PDP’s, in-store displays, mobile and any other designated marketing methods.
Brand: Nike
Position: Information Security Engineer
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: As the Information Security Engineer II, your role on the team will be making sure our security applications and systems are running in an optimum state, around the clock every day of the year.
Brand: Converse
Position: Director of Footwear Engineering
Location: Boston, MA
Description: Directs, motivates, inspires, influences, and negotiates with functional leadership on ‘product excellence’ goals. Communicates engineering functional and category business priorities to leadership teams on and offshore.
Brand: Eastbay
Position: Digital Content Coordinator
Location: Wausau, WI
Description: Developing and executing online marketing plans by collaborating with different departments to ensure website merchandising and promotional efforts are positioned to achieve sales and branding objectives.
Brand: PUMA
Position: IT Business Analyst
Location: Westford, MA
Description: The IT Business Analyst will be responsible for developing business requirements for both small and large projects and system enhancements. The IT Business Analyst will work closely with business partners in the definition, testing, training, implementation and support of functional requirements.
Brand: Nike
Position: Program Analyst, Emerging Markets Supply Chain Innovation
Location: Beverton, OR
Description: Works in partnership across Emerging Markets Operations network, global and other geographies to support development, implementation, and execution of business strategies, capabilities and process improvements using Nike methodologies and standards.
Brand: adidas
Position: Engineer Network Voice & Video
Location: Portland, OR
Description: This position is responsible for global voice and video services within IT Infrastructure and Operations department.
Brand: Foot Locker
Position: IT Compliance Analyst
Location: Milwaukee WI
Description: This position is responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of the existing IT security controls framework, and raising the level of security awareness and policy compliance among Foot Locker Associates.
Internships
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Brand: PUMA
Position: Social Media, Central Marketing
Location: Boston, MA
Description: This position would assist in coordinating the social media process from development to implementation. The social media intern will be responsible for coordination and communication between internal stakeholders to publish our monthly content calendar and organize and upload assets and copy.
Brand: Reebok
Position: Design Internship, Graphics
Location: Canton, MA
Description: This program will provide interns with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in assisting our Design teams. They will learn what it is like working for an exciting Global Design organization and will be part of a dynamic team charged with creating innovation for the Reebok brand.
Brand: Nike
Position: Marketing Undergraduate Intern
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: Brand Marketing Interns will work with teams on the execution of plans for assigned Categories, including brand initiatives, advertising, digital, PR, experiential marketing, consumer insights, brand planning or retail marketing in order to gain a broad knowledge base of brand management.
Brand: Foot Locker
Position: Marketing Intern, Graphic Design
Location: Wausau, WI
Description: Participate in the fulfillment of assigned graphic design projects and the layout of catalog pages, web pages, marketing graphics, and e-mail graphics. Communicate directly with clients to ensure accurate and acceptable output, doing so in a timely and professional manner.
Brand: Nike
Position: Legal Graduate Intern
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: As an intern you will assist Nike in-house legal counsel and Nike business managers on a wide range of legal issue support and gain hands-on experience in the structuring, drafting and implementation of a wide range of business transactions, helping us advance and guide Nike, Inc.’s business through superior, innovative and offense-minded legal counsel.
Brand: Nike
Position: Manufacturing and Sourcing Undergraduate Intern
Location: Beaverton, OR
Description: The Manufacturing and Sourcing organization is looking for dynamic interns to join their teams across a variety of functional areas including Manufacturing Sustainability, Materials Operations, Materials Development and In-House Manufacturing (IHM).
Brand: Foot Locker
Position: Mobile Applications Developer Intern
Location: Wausau, WI
Description: Assist the mobile developers with the design and development of native app features contained within our Foot Locker and partner brand apps.
Brand: Reebok
Position: Internship, Materials Development & Innovation Footwear and Apparel
Location: Canton, MA
Description: Effectively work with and support the Material Development & Innovation teams by completing various material projects and assisting the x-functional teams with material advice.
