• Create 3D Sportstyle Footwear, both conceptual and digital twins ( Including 3D geometry and material )
• Collaborate with Footwear Designer, Product Line Management, and development, locally and globally for creation of 3D Footwear Assets to the Brand calendar.
• Collaborate with Brand experts to enhance the Footwear Digital Creation process, and contribute to the quality of products’ design content to reinforce and strengthen the Brand position and generate consumer demand.
• Under the direction of the Brand, utilize 3D Assets to help speed up the development process and act as a physical sample’s substitute.
• Manage the Digital Creation team to ensure quality of 3D Assets meet the Brand’s guideline.
• Explore new 3D workflows to continuously challenge the status quo of 3D Design and exploration process.
– Works closely with the brand tooling department to ensure the realization of their design brief, and to make sure that the specifications of designs are accurate & producible; adds comments, suggestions, ideas to designers to their shoe designs
– Prototypes from initial concept to final confirmation inclusive of molds
– Checks & evaluates tech package prepared by tooling engineers & team on shoe projects before sending to factories/ suppliers
– Performs project management on a wide range of follow up activities: mold drawing process, costing, bottom part production, component making and process, prototyping, development trials, testing and transitions to production
– Coordinates with cross functional departments of Company. For example, coordinate with Development/ Commercialization Team for the tooling tech pack transferring or coordinate with production team to ensure the smooth/ efficient of shoe production at factories
– Coordinates with factories and suppliers in sourcing and engineering process (quality controlling, fit testing, material development testing, wear testing, etc.).
– Trains, develops, and manages the tooling engineers for both individual & company growth and success
– Consults and sets up individual target, team target to meet the shared goals of whole Company Operation goals
– Shares supervisory responsibilities with management team
– Performs other duties as assigned
– Ensures shoes (shoe bottom parts) are well engineered as well as meeting design aesthetic requirements
– Ensures the new models to achieve technical requirements and delivery times
