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Exxel Outdoors

Do you get excited about Gear design, and the Outdoor Industry? Do you love to create what others can only imagine? Then this may be the perfect role for you! The Product Designer II is responsible for working on multiple product categories for a variety of in-house and private label brands. This role also conducts research and analysis for market trends, identifies gaps, challenges and opportunities within those markets.

Exxel Outdoors offers great benefits, product allowance, generous employee discounts, and awesome people (and dogs!) to work with. We can t wait for you to join our team.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Design * Research, understand and identify product design opportunities. * Actively generate new opportunities to enhance the brand. This includes product innovations in existing categories and exploring new product categories. * Engage in a thoughtful ideation process that includes collecting inspirational imagery and materials, brainstorming concepts, extensive sketching of broad designs and detailed functionality, making quick 3D mock-ups * Work collaboratively on cross-functional teams to design and develop innovative and aesthetically engaging products and accessories that are consistent with direction of the Exxel brands. * Design new product solutions coinciding with the business unit s overall brand and sales strategy. Concepts should contain design language specific to each brand s positioning based on its individual style and design ideology. * Complex problem-solving for technical/saturated product categories and maintain a high level of efficiency and effective creative solutions. * Create detailed Spec-Package including unique manufacturing processes if needed * Research, understand and identify new processes and procedures that will help increase efficiency in the manufacturing of new products. This can pertain to fabric use, patterning, assembly, etc. * Interpret product testing results to improve a product s functionality, style, quality and success in the marketplace. * Test working prototypes to ensure any newly developed design features function as intended. This includes personal field testing and collecting feedback from outside field testers. * Review, approve and comment on color development, including lab dips, trims, and screen-print colors. * Execute multiple projects from brief to spec and collaborate with development to SMS Trends * Research, strategize and communicate effective color and pattern strategies that can be applied to * specific product lines. * Interpret and present high-level trend forecasting to a digestible and applicable overview for cross functional understanding how the brands can evolve. * Engage with the brands activities and the consumers who enjoy them to see how the activities are evolving and build empathy to validate design direction. * Attend various brand related exhibitions/seminars to support and identify design strategy. * Maintain a constant gauge on the latest market, retail and competitor trends and technologies and how they may translate to our products, brands and customers. Regular communication with Product Team with findings and recommendations. * Travel to industry trade shows, development trips and retailer presentations as needed. * Potential travel to factories in order to expedite the final development their designs, make comments on prototypes, review materials, construction and design details, along with understanding the most recent innovations in manufacturing

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Equal Employment Opportunity/M/F/disability/protected veteran status

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