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Scotts Valley, CA, CO
Full-time | Design - Accessories, Development - Apparel, Development - Product
About the job
Join our talented team. Employees at Vista Outdoor are passionate and committed to delivering quality products to our customers. Our culture centers on an engaged and accountable workforce. Our goal is to attract and retain a diverse workforce: rich in talent, background, ideas and experience.
Position Summary:
Responsible for developing individual products and complete product lines of moderate levels of difficulty, for which few precedents exist through the use of shape, accent details, color, ergonomics and other design techniques in coordination with other cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will bring experience working within a hard-goods or related consumer product industry and can support the activities of both product design and project execution. The candidate should be able to lead and develop teams on new product designs and support product creation by assisting in project meetings and helping define specifications for future market opportunities.
Essential Job Functions:
- Study consumer trends related to design. Proactively adapt and conceptualize these trends as suggestions for future products or product line introductions or enhancements.
- Able to direct the execution of design concepts and ideas to others in 2-D or 3-D as deemed appropriate.
- Coordinate research regarding materials and constructions for all projects.
- Create mock-ups and prototypes to evaluate conceptual designs.
- Direct the efforts of inside and outside resources to create drawings, models and prototypes.
- Competence and familiarity with basic model shop tools and procedures.
- Create sketches, drawings and specifications to translate ideas into models and working prototypes.
- Conduct cost analysis on new product designs, partnering with other internal resources.
- Evaluate designs relative to applicable safety standards in conjunction with engineering.
- Test functional prototypes to verify design intent through virtual or physical methods.
- Acknowledge that your work affects the quality level of the final product.
- Keep informed of the latest developments in the field by reading trade journals, individual contacts and attendance at appropriate meetings and/or trade shows.
- Can deliver both conceptual and executable designs that fits a specific target market
- Experience in communicating with overseas vendors through written or visual means
- Communicates with Product Marketing as to features and functions of new products.
- Perform other tasks as assigned.
- Domestic and international travel required as necessary (10%).
Position Summary:
Responsible for developing individual products and complete product lines of moderate levels of difficulty, for which few precedents exist through the use of shape, accent details, color, ergonomics and other design techniques in coordination with other cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will bring experience working within a hard-goods or related consumer product industry and can support the activities of both product design and project execution. The candidate should be able to lead and develop teams on new product designs and support product creation by assisting in project meetings and helping define specifications for future market opportunities.
Essential Job Functions:
- Study consumer trends related to design. Proactively adapt and conceptualize these trends as suggestions for future products or product line introductions or enhancements.
- Able to direct the execution of design concepts and ideas to others in 2-D or 3-D as deemed appropriate.
- Coordinate research regarding materials and constructions for all projects.
- Create mock-ups and prototypes to evaluate conceptual designs.
- Direct the efforts of inside and outside resources to create drawings, models and prototypes.
- Competence and familiarity with basic model shop tools and procedures.
- Create sketches, drawings and specifications to translate ideas into models and working prototypes.
- Conduct cost analysis on new product designs, partnering with other internal resources.
- Evaluate designs relative to applicable safety standards in conjunction with engineering.
- Test functional prototypes to verify design intent through virtual or physical methods.
- Acknowledge that your work affects the quality level of the final product.
- Keep informed of the latest developments in the field by reading trade journals, individual contacts and attendance at appropriate meetings and/or trade shows.
- Can deliver both conceptual and executable designs that fits a specific target market
- Experience in communicating with overseas vendors through written or visual means
- Communicates with Product Marketing as to features and functions of new products.
- Perform other tasks as assigned.
- Domestic and international travel required as necessary (10%).