Product Designer (Hybrid)

Posted by Canadian Tire Corporation on 09/05/2024

Job Basics

Industry Sector: Bike, Hunting/Shooting, Lifestyle, Outdoor, Snow

Job Categories: Design & Development - Product

Company Type: Accessories, Apparel/SoftGoods, HardGoods/Equipment

State: ON

City: Toronto

Country: Canada

Required Experience: 3 - 5 years

Job Type: Full Time

Salary: $70,000 - $90,000 + Bonus

Required to Relocate:

Required to Travel:

Employee May Telecommute: No

Job Seeker Must Live Within:

Job Description & Requirements

The Product Designer is a part of a highly motivated team of design professionals that share an appreciation and passion for outdoor adventure. You are inspired by innovative design and recognize that style, performance, and quality are all part and parcel to creating considered products. Through the direction from senior team members, collaboration with cross functional partners and research, the designer will create concepts and production ready design strategies that meet the needs of our customers. With the direction outlined in design Briefs the designer will initiate and interpret research to create new product concepts to meet the needs of our consumers. As a product designer, you will be creating products for all CTC outdoor recreation brand labels (Woods, Outbound, Huntshield, Yukon Gear, Helly Hansen); for categories such as Backpacks, Lighting, Tents, Sleeping Bags and Camp Accessories.

You are equally comfortable developing fresh ideas as you are refining proven concepts. As a product designer, you will communicate product concepts through line sketches, photo renderings, technical specification packages. You use colour, patterns, textures and imagery to communicate the line’s core brand positioning. Highly detail oriented, you thrive in a fast-paced environment where design projects are delivered on time and on budget.

• Accountable for creating products that are on-brand, ensures the design meets all requirements & targets as briefed by the product team through collaborative concept presentations, sample reviews with all stake holders and manufacturing partners.
• Effectively execute seasonal product creation goals and deliverables, by managing the cadence of product development according to the product creation calendar.
• Build productive relationships with our manufacturing partners, product teams and all other cross functional partners, through effective communication and appropriate onsite travel/visits to manufacturing partner’s facilities.
• Ensure all new projects and current mainline products are engineered to meet and exceed cost targets and financial objectives. • Support the broader business team members to deliver project deliverables on time and on budget.
• Ability to incorporate all the different insights from global marketplace trends, construction techniques, materials, fabric, color and category needs to deliver market ready product.
• Attend selected trade shows for market research and attends sales meetings to gain thorough understanding of customer and product requirements.
• Accurately assesses the overall competitive market landscape to design brand appropriate equipment that reflects an understanding of the target consumer.

 

Salary & Benefits

Beyond a competitive base salary of $70,000 to $90,000, you'll enjoy company benefits, bonuses, or any additional compensation. 

We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. 

What you bring

• Proactive interest in the outdoors, related equipment and our customers. Experience in the Outdoor Sporting Goods industry is an important asset.
• Accredited degree in Industrial Design or related field
• A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in a product design role
• Strong expertise in Adobe C-Suite (Illustrator and Photoshop); additional 3D modeling experience highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office.
• Knowledge of PLM (Product Line Management) tools.
• Familiarity with common manufacturing techniques including cut-and-sew, screen printing, embroidery, injection and compression molding, high frequency welding, etc.
• Team player who works closely with Sourcing, Product Management and Brand Marketing to develop innovative and commercial product ideas
• A thorough understanding of the design, development and merchandising process from inception through production.
• Proactive and passionate approach to driving fresh, innovative thinking from product concept to final execution.
• The ability to keep ego in check, while collaborating with our dynamic cross-functional teams to achieve business goals.
• Strong presentation/speaking skills – able to present and sell to all levels of the organization as well as the customer, communicating a clear and inspiring vision.
• The ability to precisely communicate and negotiate time frames verbally and in writing in a multi-cultural environment.
• Demonstrated collaboration, interpersonal influence, and teamwork skills (maintains effective communication and working relationships).
• Results orientation while exhibiting great energy and resourcefulness.
• Self-starter who brings passion, enthusiasm and focus to each project.
• Exceptional project planning, organizational and time management skills and a high level of initiative and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven thinking.
• Team player – you like working with people and people like working with you; you do what needs to be done to strive for a common goal.
• Able to manage to deadlines, be flexible with change, drive to timely resolution.
• Able to lift packages up to 25lbs

 

Hybrid

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

At Canadian Tire Group of Companies, we believe in fostering an environment of transparency. A place where your contributions are recognized, valued, and fairly rewarded and salary is determined based on a combination of factors including individual experience, location, and other relevant role-specific requirements. Beyond a competitive base salary of $70,000 to $90,000, you'll enjoy company benefits, bonuses, or any additional compensation.

 

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

 

Accommodations  

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.

About Canadian Tire Corporation

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. 

 

We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.