VP – Design

Salary Range: 224000 to 330000 (Currency: CAD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

If you were the VP of Design, Men’s now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Building, coaching and guiding a high-performing Men’s Design team, driving inspiration and stoke to create and evolve world class innovative and strategic consumer concepts 
• Collaborating to align with the Chief Creative Officer on 3–5-year product strategy, in line with the Design vision 
• Partnering with leadership across Product Line Management (PLM), Development, and Brand teams to bring our product strategy to life 
• Collaborating with and briefing the Advanced Concepts team to ensure materials and technology are continuous and ready for launch approval 
• Defining the Men’s product design direction to deliver against our design vision, product strategy and company goals 
• Providing visionary leadership and creative direction to your product design teams to enable the successful execution of seasonal range plans, as prepared by and aligned on with the PLM team 
• Leading and empowering the Product Design team to identify and create comprehensive and innovative design solutions, technologies, construction methods and components that are in-line with Arc’teryx design values  
• Creating space for your Product teams to balance a high degree of technical innovation with a high degree of progressive styling to achieve aesthetic design breakthroughs, relevant functional product and long-term consumer value 
• Ensuring that product is relevant, resolved and has consistent design language  
• Collaborating to align with PLM leadership on product architecture and activity strategy 
• Participating in broader organizational strategy and planning as a key member of the Creative leadership team 
• Collaborating with leadership in Creative and Product Operations teams to identify and strategize against resource gaps and opportunities to optimize Design 
• Collaborating with Brand leadership to ensure that product and brand stories are aligned with the creative vision  
• Designing and delivering compelling and persuasive design presentations to audiences of varying levels, sizes, and backgrounds, inclusive of team members and senior leadership 
• Travelling globally to research product, participate in activities and attend industry events 

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

• Building a strategy around the full system of dress and product innovation, across all layers 
• Onboarding new partners to enhance the product innovation pipeline, in partnership with the Product Operations and Raw Materials leadership teams 
• Partnering with Creative leadership to build out a 3-year roadmap of special projects, partnerships and ways of working with ambassadors 

Are you our next VP, Design, Men’s?

• You have 12+ years of experience as a VP of Design, Senior Design Director, Creative Director, or a similar role in the apparel industry, including 10+years in a people leadership role 
• You have proven people leadership experience and a passion for coaching, mentoring, and guiding a team of creative leaders and contributors 
• Your ability to make solid and bold decisions harvests natural leadership and trust 
• You are a highly collaborative partner, ready to strategize with other senior leadership, and you understand the importance of being part of a larger team  
• You have a knowledge and understanding of the technical outdoor/fashion/apparel industry, and the men’s market in particular, as well as the disciplines for which Arc’teryx design products for 
• Your vision is holistic – the nuance matters, but your baseline understanding of technical product enables you to see the bigger picture  
• You display fanatical attention to detail and possess the organizational skills required to manage multiple projects and deliverables across different teams and organizations  
• You have a passion for sustainable design and style 
• You eschew micro trends to instead pursue high impact, enduring, progressive design and experiences 
• You are a creative and strategic thinker with energy to break new ground and thrive in a technical lab-like, fail-forward environment 
• You understand the cultural nuance of the outdoor industry, and you’re experienced in creating and offering moments to different demographics and niche interests  
• You are strong in your vision – you can create stories, and you are skilled at bringing people along, in support of your vision, with proven leadership success in concepted, strategized and globally launched consumer product  
• You have awareness of the global marketplace, and how our product finds relevance across different continents and markets 
• You have a strong understanding of technical product process and calendars, softgoods and hardgoods product design, and manufacturing and supply chain impacts 
• You are stoked to live in Vancouver, to be in the mountains and you regularly get outside to live it