# Sr. Designer - HOKA Lifestyle Footwear

Hiring organization: [HOKA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/hoka)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/c6052eff-033c-4953-9c1e-302d6afa106d

Listed on HOKA's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Portland, OR
- Salary: 87900 – 118600 USD per year

## Summary

Senior Designer role creating lifestyle footwear for HOKA that balances aesthetic vision with commercial viability and cultural relevance. Ideal for an experienced footwear designer comfortable translating consumer insights into compelling product concepts and shepherding designs from ideation through production.

_Our summary, not HOKA's wording._

## Skills named

Adobe Firefly, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Blender, Lucid Dreaming, Midjourney, Miro, PowerPoint, Rhino 3D

## Required

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Footwear Design, Industrial Design, Product Design, Fashion Design, or related field
- 5+ years of footwear design experience in lifestyle, sport lifestyle, athletic, fashion, or related categories
- Advanced understanding of lifestyle footwear design, construction, materials, and manufacturing processes
- Strong understanding of lifestyle footwear and streetwear culture and consumer behavior
- Ability to translate consumer and cultural insights into footwear solutions
- Strong concepting, storytelling, and visual communication skills
- Expert ability to create technical footwear drawings, renderings, specifications, and tech packs
- Ability to balance innovative and commercial product objectives
- Portfolio demonstrating consumer understanding, concept development, storytelling, and footwear execution

## Nice to have

- 3D design and visualization tools such as Vizcom, Firefly, Gravity Sketch, Blender, Rhino, Midjourney, or similar platforms

Apply on HOKA's site: https://deckers.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Deckers/job/Portland-Oregon/Sr-Designer---HOKA-Lifestyle-Footwear_21083