Senior Director, Design - Advanced Concept As the Senior Director, Advanced Concepts Design, you drive the strategic vision for the Design group and lead a highly technical interdisciplinary group of forward-thinking designers, developers and experts who deliver tangible solutions for the mountain athlete everywhere. Under your leadership, your team identifies and develops advanced product concepts and technologies, across all product categories, with a focus on a range of projects from two years out from launch to highly conceptual projects well into the future. Your deep understanding of design, engineering, materials and production drives focused and relevant technical problem solving through a consistent flow of projects.

You are a business leader with a passion for delivering industry-shaping solutions to establish and maintain Arc’teryx’ position as a disruptive, bold and relevant design brand.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is expected to be performed in office.

Fueled by curiosity, we take a holistic approach to identifying future needs and tangible solutions across advanced materials, products, technologies, and experiences. We are a team of builders, problem solvers and outdoor enthusiasts. Our in-house, end-to-end capabilities in research, engineering, design, development, digital experience and product validation allow us to innovate head-to-toe solutions that bring the coast mountain experience to the world.

If you were in the Senior Director of Advanced Concepts role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing: Building, coaching, and guiding a high-performing Design team, enabling them to deliver advanced Research & Development (R&D;)



concepts and solutions in alignment with our future vision

Overseeing Advanced Concepts Design and the design activities in footwear, apparel, technology innovation, materials, future vision and our professional line

Building the Advanced Concepts roadmap to ensure that design has a pipeline of proven innovation concepts to feed into the line, across all product categories

Overseeing design for professional category (including search & rescue, guides, special forces, etc.) Driving key projects to support the future of Arc’teryx, with a focus on product circularity

Managing and sharing updates to key stakeholders on a portfolio of complexes; short, mid and long-term projects across categories

Driving innovation proof-of-concepts through partnership with internal and external materials, engineering, tooling and testing teams

Collaborating with inline Design and Merchandising leadership to drive and align innovation solutions that deliver against our vision

Creating strategic R&D; research partnerships with companies, individuals and academics to evolve product innovation

Ensuring that all R&D; concepts achieve a state of risk-reduced readiness prior to go-to-launch style development

Acting as a key member of the Arc’teryx design leadership team and participate in broader organizational strategy and planning

Partnering with AC Leadership to maintain a robust IP portfolio,



proprietary solutions and exclusivity on various materials and technologies

Supporting in compilation of project scope, activities, and expenditures of projects deemed eligible for submission to funding programs (SR&ED;, IRAP, NRC, MITACS, and so forth)

Partnering with Creative leadership teams to build out a 5-year roadmap of advanced concepts materials strategy, special projects and partnerships

Are you our next Senior Director, Advanced Concepts? You have a Degree in Apparel Design, Industrial Design or Textile Engineering, or the equivalent experience

You have 12+ years’ experience in a technical apparel and/or performance hardgoods design, production, and/or R&D; environment, with 7+ years’ experience leading a team

You have excellent knowledge of outdoor technical apparel, footwear and equipment, including materials, construction techniques, performance characteristics, manufacturing and tooling

You have a keen interest in technical product and its application to a variety of outdoor activities

You have the ability to travel internationally as required

You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity

You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement A reasonable estimate of the pay range is CAD $181,000 - CAD $249,000 at the time of this posting. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors such as job-related skills, relevant experience, education and/or training. Please note that the range details above reflect the base pay only and does not include our competitive bonus program and benefits that we offer Seniority level Full-time

Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

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