CREATE INCREDIBLE PRODUCTS AND EXPERIENCES THAT COMBINES EXCELLENCE WITH INNOVATION, ENSURES BEST RATIO OF OVERALL VALUE (TIME, COST, QUALITY) & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT (FOR CRICKET & IP2C - INDIAN PRODUCT CREATION CENTRE) TO EMPOWER MORE PEOPLE TO MOVE MORE AND MOVE BETTER THROUGH SPORTS...

RESPONSIBILITY 1 :
OBSERVE HUMAN (UX & CX), SPORTS, AND CURRENT TRENDS, THEN EXPLORE NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Collect useful data for the evolution of my product range (function/emotion)
• Stay informed about sports, design, and artistic culture, as well as socio-cultural contexts,  to feed my creativity
• Monitor the global market, codes, and trends for sports within my scope.
• Stay up-to-date on techniques and processes for Hard/Soft goods products 
• Adopt Decathlon's global creative framework (Creative directions, branding, the 5 moves...) and Customer Experience guidelines.
• Integrate the major issues of sports users and target customers identified by the product manager
• Identify opportunities to reduce environmental impact.
• Feed the vision work, master plan, project plan and product brief

Analyse needs and opportunities to imagine new concepts
• Combine market and user knowledge to qualify the functional target (Use)
• Combine creative directions and sports codes to qualify the emotional target (Seduction)
• Analyze the competition to identify their range structures, product architecture, processes, and formal language, and product advantages of competitors

Translate creative strategies
• Feed the work of global design strategies, in the short, medium and long term. (Director's plan included)
• Translate creative directions taking into account the context of its scop
• Participate in functional analyses and value analysis on high-stakes products
• Structure the range upgrade (components - finishes - functional concepts or use - product advantage expression) in functional and emotional terms.
• Adopt the branding guidelines and translate them into a marking charter for my scope.

DELIVERABLES : DESIGN ANALYSIS
+ 100% of my projects are documented with a design analysis)

• Reports (trade fair, exhibition, conferences)
• Design attributes of the competition (bench)
• Target customers
• Functional analysis (in project team)
• Range upscaling structure
• Seasonal CMFG (color palette, application techniques, component look & feel, moodboards)
• Initiation of range plan

RESPONSIBILITY 2 :
CREATE AND BRING TO LIFE EXCLUSIVE CONCEPTS THAT ARE SUSTAINABLE, BEAUTIFUL, FUNCTIONAL AND AFFORDABLE

Create the structure, style and user experience of concepts
• Define and illustrate usage scenarios that address insights.
• Define the construction that meets the product's use case
• Define the product's assembly types, adapted to the chosen process:
     - Soft goods: Fit, assembly, stitching, bias, elastic, etc.
     - Soft & Hard goods: Plastic injection, welding, gluing, ribs, etc.
• Define the appearance and finishes of materials.
     - Soft goods: Weight, drape, opacity, weave, feel of fabrics.
     - Soft & Hard goods: Hardness, elasticity, texture, opacity, treatment, grain of plastics and metals.
• Maximise the use of chassis, platforms (technologies), and modules (sub-assemblies) when they meet project requirements.
• Balance eco-design / design for circularity, usage excellence, and style.
• Produce formal and functional research work in line with the structure of the range upgrade and the product language of my scope.
• Ideate & create concept ideas, mocks with the team. Define lines, structure through multiple concept directions.
• Transform concepts using 3D CADs to visualise the overall product form, function, aesthetic.
• Materialise physical or digital concepts.
• Work with 3rd Party Vendors to prototype / 3D Print your concept directions.
• Formalise the complete and final rendering of the concept (function, form, and aesthetics).
• Develop the project / range narrative (storytelling) to explain my creative process and choices.
• Organize my workload and adapt the creative process to the project.

Create the cosmetics of the concepts
• Feed the CMFG work, when writing long, medium and short term cosmetic strategies (markers)
• Define the logic for color application / color blocking, type, and graphics, in accordance with the storytelling defined by CMF and the creative direction.
• Integrate eco-design principles into my cosmetic choices
     - Soft goods: Dyeing process, process impression, etc…
     - Soft & Hard goods: Painting process, molds for cosmetics, etc.
• Follow the guidelines and highlight the branding (placement, process, etc.) according to my market

Evaluate and prescribe the best concept
• Ensure the technical feasibility of my choices, in collaboration with the technical team
• Guarantee the satisfaction (function/appeal) of users/customers of the final concept (perceived value - experienced value)
• Argue my choices during the design validation milestones

DELIVERABLES : CONCEPTS
+ 100% of my projects are well-argued and come from concept research.
+ 100% of my creations respect the design strategies of my scope

• Functional concepts
• Materials
• Finishes
• Expression of product benefits
• Usage scenarios / Storytelling
• Sketches / mock-up (physical and digital)
• Product architecture
• Brief materials and accessories
• Perceived value test analysis / Co-creation
• Load estimation - Planning

RESPONSIBILITY 3 :
DEVELOP AND VALIDATE THE PRODUCT IN TERMS OF STRUCTURE, STYLE AND COSMETICS ASPECTS

Ensure the creative intent of the concept during product development, up to its industrialisation
• Collaborate with suppliers on product fine-tuning, based on the prototype/sample.
• Control and modify the product's aesthetics and ergonomics (the user experience), based on feedback from labs, users, and customers.
• Produce and update design deliverables that can be used by the engineering teams and the supplier (2D & 3D)

Validate the emotional and functional value of the product up to the development sample
• Check, validate and sign the development sample and its digital twin (to be defined with the digital chain) in terms of function and appeal to the user/client (user experience/ perception)
• Launch perception tests (including co-creation)
• Validate all product modifications or evolutions after signing off on the development sample (Continuous improvement)

Capitalise on my projects
• Save the design packs in the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), including 3D files.
• Make available the visuals necessary for range reviews and selections
• Provide the technical documents necessary for the legal protection of high-stakes products (economic, brand image/hero, innovation).
• Archive all exploration work (workshops, exploration, research, storytelling, etc.) in a shared space
• Debrief with the project team the progress and methodology applied during the project

DELIVERABLES : FINAL PRODUCT DESIGN
+ 100% of strategic products have a test and perception analysis
+ 100% of my products comply with the design intent
+ 100% of my deliverables are submitted on time in the PLM.
+ 100% of my strategic products are protected by a design patent.

• Perception test on high-stakes products (CA and Image)
• Design pack - vignettes range book
• Drawing model deposit
• Validated development sample
• Creations (workshop) capitalised and made available.
• Action plan following project closing

Your job role will require REGULAR INTERACTIONS with :
• Design manager
• Product manager
• Product engineer / component engineer
• Pattern maker (Soft goods),
• Prototypers
• CMFG designer/materials designer
• 3D modeler designer
• Suppliers
• Communications team

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
• An extremely passionate designer, a sports enthusiast who plays & knows about sports (especially Cricket).
• You are an energetic personality.
• You are obsessed with product design, well aware about sports and product design market.
• You are always keep yourself surrounded by design inspirations.
• You are a great observer, understand what the user needs and convert them with ease into your design direction.
• You have a sharp eye for detail and a strong sense of aesthetics.
• You aren't just an idea person. You are also a master planner.
• You are a self-motivated, organised go-getter who can work independently to meet tight deadlines, and comfortably collaborate with anyone.
• You love getting your hands dirty, doodle ideas, build concept mocks, use softwares to visualise ideas in 3D.

Other Details :
• A graduate with Bachelors or Masters degree in Product / Industrial Design (especially from NID, IIT, MIT or relevant colleges)
• 4-7 yrs of experience in product / industrial design (sports goods or equipment design will be a cherry on the cake)
• Has strong material expertise (wood, plastics, metals, foam) paired with advanced manufacturing know how and product development skills (an expert on how to transform conceptual designs into tangible experiences).
• Proficient in Adobe (Illustrator, Photoshop), 3D design tools (Blender, Rhino, Keyshot) & AI tools (Vizcom, Gemini)
• You come with a strong understanding of fundamental product / industrial design principles, CMF & graphics.

As far as skills are concerned, we would love to have someone with below hard & soft skills :

HARD SKILLS :

RESPONSIBILITY 1:
• Design Culture
• User & customer needs analysis
• Combination of design data

RESPONSIBILITY 2:
• Translation and application of Design Strategy
• Exploration and materialisation of concepts
• Product creation
• Color & graphism application
• Sustainability-product designer
• Usage of 3D SWs, Adobe to better describe concepts
• Scenarios creation
• Creative process management
• Design asset use
• Product design storytelling

RESPONSIBILITY 3:
• Technical design data communication
• Design evaluation and prescription
• English language
• Project Capitalisation

SOFT SKILLS :
• Creativity
• External world opening
• Collaboration and cooperation
• Persuasive communication 
• Decision making
• Emotional intelligence
• Critical thinking
• Daring
• Organization

INTERESTED CANDIDATES MUST SUBMIT THEIR RESUME & PORTFOLIO (PHYSICAL PRODUCT / INDUSTRIAL DESIGN) FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION.