Your Mission - Lead Exploration. Direct the end-to-end design process of performance running footwear, ensuring execution from initial concept through to production-ready product. - Strategic driver: Build and foster a cross-functional network of expert collaborators in innovation, product strategy and engineering to steer the category’s performance and expression to the future. - Develop Talent: Mentor and elevate the design team, playing a key role in structuring and scaling our creative talent as the category grows. Integrate Innovation: Drive the creation of technology-infused, athlete-driven products that seamlessly merge technical performance with a premium design aesthetic. - Articulate Narratives: Create compelling design stories, visual assets, and prototypes that communicate a clear and intentional direction. - Collaborate Globally: Partner closely with development, engineering, and advanced innovation teams in Zurich and Vietnam to translate creative concepts into functional realities fitting the markets. - Anticipate Trends: Identify and leverage emerging material developments, manufacturing processes, and consumer insights to keep our product line ahead of the market. - Synthesize Data: Deep-dive into biomechanics insights and elite athlete feedback to inform and validate future product directions. - Influence Strategy: Present concepts clearly to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, helping to shape brand positioning and business strategy. - Foster Culture: Champion an experimental, curious, and progressive design philosophy across the wider organization.

About the Team You will work in the On Design Studio within an international and vibrant Design team; including Footwear, Colour, Material and Computational Designers who all closely collaborate with footwear developers, product managers, material and innovation specialists, sport scientists & engineers. Together, we are responsible for shaping the future On performance product line up.