Color Designer

Our client is looking for a Color Designer to join their team! This is a 40 hr./week role Hybrid in Beaverton, OR. 

 This ideal candidate blends creativity, technical mastery, and instinct to elevate kids core footwear through the power of color. This person understands how color sparks emotion, drives narrative, and influences culture. In this role, you will drive an emotional connection to footwear through the use of narrative and storytelling.
 
In this role, you will: 
- Collaborate with Material Design, Graphics, Product design, Product Management, Merchandising, and Development to build cohesive seasonal color direction 
- Create color palettes and flows that align with category strategy 
- Conduct in-depth research across sport, fashion, art, and culture to inform color decisions 
- Review samples, troubleshoot color execution challenges, and drive accuracy from concept to manufacturing 
- Support cross-functional designers with color expertise outside your assigned load when needed 
- Lead yourself and teammates confidently through change, iteration, and ambiguity

Top Must-Haves: 
- 2 YOE in color design for footwear 
- Strategic color design for CORE design, longevity for color, not seasonally based color palettes 
- Offering based on established color lines 
- MUST include Portfolios 

Nice to haves: 
- Color inspo is pulled from clear inspiration sources, there is reason for why that color relates to the consumer and who it serves, clear story for how the consumer is going to interact with the product 
- Ability to take feedback 
- Has experience with enterprise level retailers

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

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April Segedi - Recruiter

For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.This is a new role.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 04/08/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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