Product Designer to H&M Sport Atelier

Company Description


Within the newly created Business Unit H&M Lifestyle Brands, we apply the strong heritage of H&M to new industries, to add excitement and energy to our offer and strengthening the H&M brand. H&M Lifestyle Brands includes H&M HOME, H&M BEAUTY and H&M SPORT. Within H&M SPORT our ambition is to create a new and disruptive global sports brand to get the world moving! You will be part of building an entrepreneurial, multicultural team with a growth mindset who share a passion for sport
At H&M SPORT we are brave. We dare to reimagine and try new things. We want all our team members to feel that they belong. We welcome all new mindsets and cultures with the belief that different perspectives will make us successful. We have a true passion for our teams, brand and products. We are now recruiting an experienced highly visionary Product Designer to H&M SPORT head office in Stockholm to help reach this goal!




Job Description


We look for
A Product Designer to our H&M SPORT Atelier with responsibility for our visionary forward and highly innovative product design and development for our strong dedicated standalone Women, Mens and Kids Sport collections. H&M Sport will run essentially as a start-up within the H&M Group and as such, the role requires a broad, entrepreneurial and very agile growth mindset.
We look for an experienced driven, hands-on and self-motivated active sportswear designer. You are responsible for driving overall developing of forward thinking visionary future fashion sports collections, the seed for new components, silhouettes, details and design innovations within the frames of the H&M Sport concept.
You have a global, curious mindset and a genuine passion for sportswear and its future. You are well-organized, love teamwork, are humble and have strong and clear communication skills. You are motivated by being part of building our future sport design vision, adapting as we develop and constantly finding new ways of working in a creative and diverse environment. You have a true and burning passion for sportswear!
You will
drive and spear head the product vision and push it further through experimental and innovative hands on creative processes – draping, sewing, cutting or what is needed to communicate your ideas/vision. Your work is in the making and creation process, hands on testing, prototyping and developing.
fuse it with the latest tech tools. material innovation and dare to work ahead, you strive for design ideas that may not even exist in sportswear today!
collaborate with other teams and functions in the organization, primarily the Atelier Lead, Product designers, Print designers, Material specialists and more. You know how to inform and be informed by each others’ expertise and knowledge.
bring your wide and extensive experience from working on many projects and ability to collaborate with varied stake holders simultaneously. You come with fresh ideas, energy, high level design creativity and fully diverse global perspective to the team and inspire them through your great communication skills
You are used to work on many projects without loosing speed, which requires high energy and flexibility, strong independent drive and a constantly curious mindset





Qualifications


Senior Designer experience from an aspirational fashion &/or sportswear design background
A passion for sports- and/or fashion design demonstrating strong trend sensitivity
Experience from driving visionary commercial fashion projects
High competence in and deep knowledge of textiles, color, design and material techniques, draping, sewing, cutting and additional crafts based fashion design process
Agile entrepreneurial mindset and adaptable to fast changes
Strong and fast in Adobe Suite creative programs
3D CLO and innovative design software is meriting
A flexible, positive and inspirational team player
Documented leadership experience and a coaching mindset
Experience from creative studio work, preferably from global brand/s and international atelier environment
Excellent communication & presentations skills in English, written and verbal





Additional Information


If your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application by 9th Sept with your CV in English and relevant fashion print /graphic portfolio work (pdf max 10mb/uploading) and/or link. Your print portfolio should include vision/mood boards, full print design process and final print works/collections. Please ensure to include some work clearly relatable to the H&M Sports customer. Applications must include portfolio and meeting the above criteria to be considered! We would like see work that shows your creative aspirational side as well as your commercial fashion sense. You will report to the Sports Atelier Lead.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
We know that diversity is what makes us strong. Our teams should consist of great mix of people that share and combine their knowledge, experiences and ideas. It leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, what we perceive possible and how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world.