K2 Sports is looking for a Snowboard Global Design Manager to join the team in Seattle, WA.!

K2 Sports, a subsidiary of Jarden Corporation, (NYSE:JAH), located in Seattle, Washington is a leading manufacturer and marketer of alpine, Nordic and telemark skis, snowboards, snowshoes and related winter and outdoor recreational products including the brands K2, Ride, Morrow, 5150, Full Tilt, Line, Atlas, Tubbs, PowdeRidge, Little Bear, Zoot, Backcountry Access and Madshus. K2 Sports is globally renowned for its non-traditional advertising, graphics and high performance products throughout its portfolio. With wholly owned subsidiaries in Canada, Central Europe, Japan, Korea and Scandinavia and distribution in more than 60 countries, K2 Sports continues to assert its position as a global leader across multiple categories of sporting goods. K2 Sports remains dedicated to passionate action sports enthusiasts around the world who are looking for unique and authentic lifestyle experiences. Hundreds of K2 Sports employees wake up every day around the world dedicated to the company's mission of putting smiles on peoples faces as they enjoy the wonders of the outdoors.

Responsibilities:
The Ride Snowboard Global Design Manager is responsible for the brand look and feel in product graphic design and all universal marketing collateral. The Global Design manager has creative control of the brand ¿look¿, under the general direction of the Global Marketing Director, and empowered to articulate the brand message using creative graphic design on product and all marketing collateral including, but not limited to, global advertising, catalogs, pop and fixturing, swag, packaging, accessories and websites. The Global Design Manager is the key element in determining the most appropriate way to visually communicate the brand message through creative design and manages additional design staff to create consistent marketing materials and product graphics that clearly convey the brand message and appropriate image to maximize the effectiveness and appeal of the Ride Snowboard brand.

Essential Job Duties:
Works closely with Global Marketing Director, Global Brand Director, Sales management Team, Graphic Design Team, and development group to blend essence of the brand with market trends using color and graphic images to create individually appealing and differentiated products and collateral materials
• Manages graphic design staff
• Knowledge of product graphic application processes and production requirements
• Manage product graphic design budget
• Ability to communicate verbally and through detailed graphic briefs with the product team to communicate graphic direction.
• Manages the graphics and project timeline schedules as directed by development
• Responsible for assuring that products are available and graphically acceptable for intro photo shoot/ image needs
• Works closely with Global Brand Director to insure continuity of product and brand message.
• Work closely with web management team to keep web based brand and product information fresh, interesting, and supportive to the overall brand image
• Leads and participates in marketing and graphic design brainstorming sessions
• Develops ad concepts
• Directs web creative development
• Insures that all Subsidiaries and International Distributors are current in use of logos and images associated with brand
• Exceptionally versed in current trends relative to customer including music, lifestyle, fashion, action sports, design, and color.
• Creative thinker
• Strong management and communication skills
• Exceptionally skilled in all applicable design programs


Qualifications:
• Associates degree in Graphic Design or related field
• Five+ years of industry experience
• Expert in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Indesign
• Creativity
• Willingness to experiment
• Ability to contribute individually, and lead, manage or participate in cross-functional teams
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of data into actionable information
• Excellent design skills
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Persuasiveness
• Ability to create great working relationships with all levels within the company
• Sense of humor

Equal Opportunity Employer (M/F/D/V)

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