Salary Range: 80000 to 100000 (Currency: CAD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

If you were in the Designer 2 role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Creating and executing assigned product designs alongside your senior leaders that are future oriented and user-centric 
• Helping to define the current and future global guest, their needs and expectations through building mood boards, and visualizing consumer journeys and market analysis. 
• Contributing to the commercialization of innovative technologies, including materials, pattern, and construction techniques for existing and new product categories 
• Creating patterns, mock ups, and prototypes to explore, resolve, or prove new concepts or construction techniques 
• Providing detailed product initiations to the Product Development team, including spec drawings, pattern and fit directions, and material information 
• Collaborating with the Fit & Pattern team to resolve fit style and construction issues, and ensure a fully commercialized product 
• Coordinating with the Materials team to test new materials and ensure that necessary items are available for prototyping 
• Developing and maintaining a thorough understanding of the materials and manufacturing techniques that Arc’teryx works with 
• Collaborating closely with other Designers to bring new and better toolbox solutions that benefit the brand (such as new technologies, construction techniques, features, etc.)  
• Staying up to date with industry trends 
• Assisting with current product design changes where necessary, in order to address in-line production issues 
• Supporting the Design Director/Senior Designers in developing a schedule for the flow of the line plan through all development stages, including charting line plan progress 
• Partnering with the Development and Merchandising teams on concepting and prototyping for seasonal products to gain visibility into cost estimates, MOQs and LOM concerns  
• Presenting at internal meetings, design reviews and seasonal stage gates, annual seasonal handoffs and other product meetings as required 
• Attending tradeshows, company events as well as sourcing and development vendor visits as required 

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

• Contributing to the long-term strategic plan for Women’s apparel at Arc’teryx 
• Collaborating with various design activity leaders to identify new product opportunities and propose product solutions 
• Working closely with our Development teams and innovation partnerships to challenge and evolve the way we bring innovative ideas to production

Are you our next Designer 2?

• You have a Degree in Design (Apparel or Industrial), or Textile Engineering 
• You have 5+ years hands-on experience designing products, preferably textile based, with a specific focus on designing women’s product 
• You have the capability to create tools and construction methods to assist in solving construction issues 
• You have constant finger on the pulse of evolving city cultures and evolving markets, but seek a timeless solve over temporary trends 
• You are a digital/technical expert, with experience using CLO3D, Adobe Illustrator and Gerber, or the equivalent pattern software 
• You are an excellent team player with the ability to take direction and work independently 
• You have technical and creative skills to pattern and prototype 
• You are entrepreneurial and innovative 
• You have strong planning, organizational, problem solving and decision-making skills 
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues, seeking the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions with an unwavering commitment to do what is right 
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity 
• You are able to balance autonomy and collaboration 
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement 
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it 
• A strong knowledge of Arc’teryx products and interest/involvement in activities Arc’teryx makes products for