Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX: As the Sr. Materials Innovation Manager – Advanced Concepts, you lead the advanced materials development function, creating industry-leading textile technology platforms and collaborating with the other Advanced Concepts (AC) designers, engineers, scientists and researchers to deliver ground-breaking and revolutionary products, projects and/or systems. The role also acts as the main catalyst for operational improvement (process, ways of working, frameworks), people-management and development of the AC Materials team’s capabilities internally & externally.

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

Meet Your Future Team: The Advanced Concepts team drives breakthrough innovation in snow, trail and climb for the mountain athlete everywhere. 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 and validation allow us to innovate head-to-toe solutions that bring the coast mountain experience to the world. Our unique methodology, mindset of sustainability and fanatic passion for product are at the heart of what we do.

Inventing, developing and commercializing best-in-class materials/trims that address functional problems; durability, performance, circularity, and impact for AC projects

Initiating, building and strengthening external partnerships to execute, access, and invent unique and exclusive materials and technologies for the brand

Creating and supporting a robust Intellectual Property (IP)



portfolio of material technologies

Leading the creation & implementation of legal frameworks, such as bespoke joint development agreements, to enable and protect development work

Researching early-stage and emerging material technologies, while maintaining a detailed understanding of the commercially available (and competitor) landscape

Transferring technologies developed within the Advanced Concepts team to supply chain partners, while working on continuous process improvement for internal adoption, including technology guidelines, documentation, and establishing current material category testing methods & standards

Championing AC projects and concepts alongside Innovation Management to ensure on-track progress, accurate status updates/reporting, and delivery

Managing contractors and/or full time employees to develop a talent pipeline in addition to building the team’s capabilities/expertise

Establishing oneself as an expert in particular material type(s), consulting and constructing near-to-long term material technology strategies, as well as act as a generalist who can adapt and deliver according to evolving needs and demands

Support with budgeting, proposals, and tracking

Collaborating on the Advanced Concepts’ innovation pipeline, while aligning on priorities across Raw Materials Development, Sourcing, Quality, Design and Merchandising teams





Customizing, designing and/or evaluating in-house laboratory material testing, 3rd-party testing, and on-human/field testing to drive key development decisions and build messaging around new technologies in preparation for product launch

Are you our next Sr. Materials Innovation Manager – Advanced Concepts?

You have an advanced degree in textile engineering, materials science, fiber science, polymer science or a related field

You have 10+ years’ experience in product or material/trim development for the apparel, footwear, sporting goods, outdoor, personal protective equipment or adjacent industries - creating proprietary, exclusive, and bespoke material technologies for a commercial brand

You have managed, mentored, and developed people and teams

You have experience initiating and integrating new partnerships from outside of an established supply chain, or even outside of the industry

You have a strong understanding of the product creation process, technology transfer, supply chain, commercialization, and you have a specialization in technical textiles, natural and synthetic fibers

You have experience travelling and working directly with research institutions, machinery manufacturers, mills/suppliers, material fabricators, technology providers and factories in global locations domestically and overseas

You are comfortable working with laboratory test equipment and/or interpreting and analyzing data

You are an effective and empathetic public speaker, communicator and presenter—able to explain complex concepts to a wide audience

You have experience using PLM, ERP or other product/BOM creation systems (such as Centric, E

📌 Sr. Materials Innovation Manager – Advanced Concepts (Winnipeg)
🏢 Arcteryx
📍 Winnipeg