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WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
This Senior Manager guides the Footwear Product Engineering team across assigned categories and franchises, building engineering capability and technical standards. They work across Design, Development, Product Testing and other technical teams, while strengthening connections among Converse headquarters, Asia Product Creation teams, factories, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Converse is looking for a technical footwear Senior Manager who can turn ambitious creative concepts into beautiful, comfortable, high-quality, manufacturable product. This leader connects creative intent and consumer experience with footwear engineering, manufacturing science, product performance, and commercial realities. They bring deep expertise across footwear construction, pattern engineering, lasts, tooling, materials, compounds, and manufacturing, along with a strong understanding of fit, comfort, quality, performance, and product integrity. They are a proven people leader with strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills who can translate complex technical issues into clear product and business decisions. They collaborate and influence across creative, technical, commercial, and manufacturing functions and bring a curious, innovative, solution-oriented approach to global product creation.
What you bring:
- 8+ years footwear engineering and manufacturing experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, product design, industrial design, footwear, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- Demonstrated people leadership and talent-development capability, supported by strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with global Product Creation Centers, factories, suppliers, and cross-cultural teams.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
You’ll lead Footwear Product Engineering across assigned categories and franchises, connecting product vision with the engineering required to bring it to life at scale. You’ll build technical capability, solve complex product challenges, strengthen global manufacturing partnerships, and advance the methods and technologies shaping Converse Product Creation.
- Lead and develop the Footwear Product Engineering team, setting clear expectations and strengthening technical standards, capability, and succession.
- Establish technical strategies that enable Design and Development to deliver product intent at scale across pattern engineering, lasts, fit, tooling, compounds, constructions, materials, manufacturing methods, and product performance.
- Partner with Development from early concept through commercialization to identify risks earlier and engineer effective solutions.
- Drive product quality, consistency, fit, comfort, manufacturability, and commercialization readiness while leading complex technical problem-solving and root-cause resolution.
- Advance digital engineering, 3D, and emerging product creation technologies, partnering with Product Testing and technical teams to translate testing and consumer insights into engineering improvements.
- Balance product performance and design intent with cost, quality, sustainability, and manufacturing capability while strengthening connectivity among Converse headquarters, Asia Product Creation teams, factories, and suppliers.
- Establish and evolve engineering standards, technical documentation, best practices, and product creation methods while representing Engineering in strategic cross-functional initiatives.
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
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