Brooksrunning26d ago

Footwear Developer II, Innovation

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Key Responsibilities

Deliver the highest-performing racing footwear for Brooks professional athletes, including the Beasts Track Club, Hansons-Brooks ODP, Mavericks, NIL athletes, and Brooks runners of all levels.

Requirements Summary

Include knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform the job successfully, not already included in the job description. Experience developing track & field spikes and/or road racing shoes,

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Who We Are:

At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line.

Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation.

Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success:

Runner First
- We act in the best interest of the runner
Word is Bond
- We do what we say we’ll do
Champion Heart
- We give our all in everything we do
There is no “I” in Run
- We stay generous with our humanity
Keep Moving
- We find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic!

We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement - because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.

Responsibilities

~2 min read

→Deliver the highest-performing racing footwear for Brooks professional athletes, including the Beasts Track Club, Hansons-Brooks ODP, Mavericks, NIL athletes, and Brooks runners of all levels.

→Own leading execution and management of multiple New Upper, New Tooling racing footwear projects, including leading projects from brief to final confirmation with T1, T2, and T3 factories at overlapping stages and intro dates.

→Empathize with the needs of elite athletes required from their racing footwear and be able to craft stories on how their success in racing impacts the overall Brooks enterprise. Collaborate with Sports Marketing and Brooks professional athletes to ensure product development and introduction timing meet enterprise needs.

→Manage racing shoe and track spike development sample and production approval process with World Athletics and be an industry representative for Brooks on the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI). Be the technical product expert in the room on the WFSGI to ensure rules and implementations match the Brooks racing footwear product vision. Plan and execute project development according to the highly-accelerated seasonal critical dates that lead to on-time delivery of development samples and production confirmation in time for major competitions, international championships, national championships, and World Majors.

→Identify gaps in technologies; lead new innovation technology projects to solve, test, implement, and commercialize for racing footwear projects; and ultimately tech transfer learnings to other cross-functional teams.

→Participate in quarterly domestic travel for key athlete testing, insights gathering, and competitions.

Requirements

~1 min read

Include knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform the job successfully, not already included in the job description.

Experience developing track & field spikes and/or road racing shoes, preferred

Experience participating in and/or high knowledge of nuances surrounding track & field events and road racing (familiarity with the sport); knowledge of World Athletics footwear competition rules and regulations

Experience developing plates and other thermoplastic materials through injection and carbon fiber molding processes