Footwear Development Manager – Basketball Performance

🕒 September 5, 2025

🏢🏡 Los Angeles – Hybrid

💵 $95k - $118k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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adidas

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1924

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

⚽ Sports

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2020-04

Fashion • Retail • Sports

adidas is a globally recognized sports brand known for designing and manufacturing sports apparel, footwear, and accessories. The company focuses on sustainability, incorporating more sustainable materials and practices in their production. They emphasize diversity, equity, and inclusion within their corporate culture and engage in various social impact initiatives. Additionally, adidas provides detailed financial reporting and has a transparent corporate governance structure. They operate worldwide, employing thousands of people and maintain a strong presence in the sports and fashion industries.

📋 Description

• Lead the end-to-end development process for assigned medium complexity footwear products from concept brief to production readiness • Work in partnership with footwear technicians, material experts, product management, design and suppliers • Take accountability for development management process with emphasis on product integrity, product engineering and timely completion according to corporate operating calendar • Partner with product suppliers to develop new construction methods and manufacturing processes to create performance footwear • Provide technical solutions by analyzing designs for manufacturability, production and material properties • Ensure products are engineered in accordance with cost targets and secure initial FOB cost quotes and follow-up price adjustments • Ensure all materials, processes, prototypes and development samples are fully tested to ensure adherence to adidas’s quality standards • Ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of data by continuously updating the system • Responsible for achieving specific KPIs (e.g. margins, sustainability, and on-time SMS delivery) for assigned articles/product • Live and foster a knowledge sharing culture, and mentor junior team members • Support cross-functional projects as required

🎯 Requirements

• University degree in manufacturing, engineering, biomechanics, sports science or business, or technical degree as footwear technician • Alternatively, combination of relevant education, experience, and training • Minimum 3 - 5 years of relevant work experience in footwear product development or 3 years of relevant work experience in performance footwear product development • Strong knowledge of the footwear creation process from concept brief to shelf incl. last, pattern, construction, tooling, testing, knowledge of sport-specific movement, biomechanics • Strong ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously according to business priority, manage workload, ideally experienced in working on new technologies & innovations • Strong business acumen • Strong communication skills • English language proficiency required • Business travel (3 times a year, 7-10 days) • Continuous learning/growth mindset

🏖️ Benefits

• robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options • dental • vision • prescription drug coverage • adoption, with surrogate and fertility support • short and long-term disability • basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage • 401k plan with employer match • Stock Purchase Plan with employer match • education assistance for full-time employees • 12 weeks of paid parental leave • prorated flexible time off accrual (0.4388 hours per day) that increases with years of service • twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year • Service Time Off during milestone years • Eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance