Website Scott Sports
Employer Snapshot (Cycle-Jobs Insight)
- Company Size: large
- Ownership: Privately held
- Glassdoor: ⭐ ⭐ 2.7 / 5
- HR Index: 66.38% ▲ (Industry avg: 53.14%)
- Commitment: Committed to sustainable mobility
- Official Salary: N/A
- Estimated Salary (Cycle-Jobs): 🇨🇭 95,000-115,000 CHF / year
Company Overview
SCOTT Sports is a privately held, large company committed to sustainable mobility and innovation in sports products. The company fosters a collaborative and inspiring environment, offering modern facilities and a focus on employee well-being. SCOTT Sports is recognized for pushing boundaries in design and performance, with a culture rooted in teamwork and continuous improvement. The company provides attractive benefits and encourages a passion for sports and active lifestyles.
Role Description
The Senior Footwear Designer is responsible for creating advanced, innovative footwear solutions that align with SCOTT’s design philosophies. This role drives the design process from concept to final product, collaborating with cross-functional teams and end users to ensure performance and relevance. The position plays a key part in shaping the future of SCOTT’s footwear collections through creativity, technical expertise, and teamwork.
Position Snapshot
- Seniority: Senior
- Function: Engineering / Technical
- Department: Engineering
- Experience required: 5-7+ years’ hands-on experience designing products
- Work model: On-site
- Remote policy: On-site (strict)
Description
As a Senior Footwear Product Designer, you design advanced, comprehensive product solutions that are aligned with SCOTT’s design philosophies. You continuously push your concepts beyond where the industry is today. You bring your curiosity and passion for product to imagine and build innovative, relevant, and resolved designs. You are an innovative problem solver with a focus on collaborative teamwork. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional skills in ideation, sketching, and visual presentation, as well as possessing outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. Responsibilities must be performed under fast-paced conditions, so the candidate must be able to multi-task and prioritize. The ideal candidate is a biker, runner, skier, and/or snowboarder.
Responsibilities
- Spearhead all design aspects with compelling visual concepts, both physically as well as through 2D/3D digital assets of footwear collections (running and bike footwear), from trend research, product development to final product.
- Unleash your creativity with sketches and design renderings that push performance boundaries.
- Coordinate resources to create a unique and cohesive footwear design direction with the respective target groups in mind.
- Collecting insights through observing, product testing, research and working closely with athletes/end users ensuring designs meet real-world performance needs.
- Align footwear collections with apparel and socks.
- Partner with Footwear Product Managers, Developers & Engineers to bring designs to life.
- Lead the charge in creating a cohesive collection overview and dynamic colorways.
- Staying at the forefront of new technologies and manufacturing techniques, implementing them into future products
- Creating innovative technology platforms that underpin product categories
- Collaborating closely with other Designers to bring new and better toolbox solutions, such as new technologies, construction techniques, features, etc.
Location
This position is based in
1762 Givisiez, Switzerland
Compensation
Salary information not provided by employer.
Benefits
Attractive discounts on SCOTT products for personal and family use, Modern and inspiring office environment, Accident insurance fully covered by the company, with accident and illness coverage above the standard for the first 60 days, Discounted lunch in the company cafeteria, Monthly financial contribution for food and beverages, Fitness room with fully equipped changing rooms, Employee sports groups, Free bike spot and outdoor car parking, Five weeks holidays, possibility to purchase up to two additional weeks, Professional massages at HQ at special employee price, Employee events throughout the year
Additional Information
- Languages: English; additional languages are a welcome bonus.
- Flexibility: Five weeks holidays, possibility to purchase up to two additional weeks. Modern and inspiring office environment. Employee sports groups. Professional massages at HQ at special employee price.
- Team & Reporting: Partner with Footwear Product Managers, Developers, Engineers, and other Designers. Mentor other team members. Work closely with athletes and end users.
Application Details
Posted: June 14, 2026
To apply, please visit the following URL:https://careers.ssg-service.com/job/Givisiez-Senior-Footwear-Designer-FR/1391478533/→
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