Manager, Color Design

In this role you will lead color excellence for Converse Women’s Expression, shaping compelling color stories that align with trend insights and consumer needs. You’ll partner across design, product, and marketing to translate cultural signals into market-ready color concepts. You drive color strategy, explore new constructions and finishes, and ensure high-impact color execution across product franchises. This is a cross-functional, fast-paced leadership role that blends creativity with strategic delivery to elevate the brand’s expression.

• Lead color excellence across the Women’s Expression Design team
• Create original and compelling color stories that resonate with target consumers and elevate product expression
• Apply Converse trend methodologies while contributing Women’s and regional perspectives to the global color palette
• Inspire exploration of new constructions, finishes, and manufacturing techniques that advance color innovation
• Drive elevated color execution across multiple product franchises and consumer price points
• Partner closely with Product Management, Development, and Design teams to deliver aligned and impactful product experiences
• Adopt modern tools and ways of working to increase speed, efficiency, and collaboration across the color design process

• Significant experience in color design, footwear design, or a related field with proven concepts from ideation to commercialization
• Strong understanding of fashion trends, footwear culture, consumer insights, and lifestyle product creation
• Proactive, highly collaborative, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• collaboration
• organization
• leadership
• color design
• trend methodologies
• footwear design