Assistant Manager, Digital Technologies - Adidas (Portland, OR)
Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organisation
Assist and support the process for the creation of virtual prototypes based on development data for footwear and apparel products. Partnering with IT and business partners to define a robust product backlog, managing capability expansion increments and supporting the the development of best practice definitions are a few examples of the activities that will be expected from this role.
Key Responsibilities
Support the development of virtual product creation workflows by working together with business and IT teams
Represent the business views for virtual product creation, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that their views and requirements are captured in the backlog
Support the creation of training documentation for virtual product creation
Act as main connection between business and IT teams to ensure understanding of processes involved in virtual product creation
Assist in the refinement of virtual product creation backlog itmes to ensure that the product team is delivering the right enhancements to support business needs
Work together with business teams to organise and manage the 3D and 2D product data for an efficient visualisation workflow
Keep track of work progress and virtual product creation workflow status for key milestones and report it to major stakeholders involved
Check data quality all along the virtual creation process and support all required steps for data improvements
Take over the responsibility for key steps within the visualization process workflow development, and ensure key business interests of the digital strategy are pursued
Support the visualization process by managing important process steps such as prepare 3D data, refine 3D data for visualization, refine 2D graphics data, etc.
Help to create and enable the required data libraries for digital materials that are needed for a lean process of virtual product creation
Support the optimization of workflow efficiency by a close teamwork with the scope managers for sake of speed and quality in virtual product creation
Key Relationships
Creation Center teams (Design, Marketing, Product Operations)
GOPS Strategy & Programs
Digital Brand Solutions
Global IT
Global Sourcing
T1/T2 Factories
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
2D, 3D Software Application experience (Blender, Rhino preferred)
Motivation to learn about new processes within a digital product creation process
Solutions-oriented approach and entrepreneurial mindset
Computer literacy (Python Programming desired)
Ability to use graphics applications or desktop publishing (Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator etc)
Fluent in English, German or other second language an advantage
Motivation to learn about new prototyping processes within an industrial product creation process
Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications
Four-year college or university degree or 2 years of work experience or technical education in multimedia art, media informatics, CAD, industrial design and/ or computer graphics.
