Overview
The North Face: Associate Designer, Color Palette Creation
Denver, CO, United States
Every season at The North Face starts with a story, and color helps bring that story to life! As the Associate Designer, Color Palette Creation, you'll turn inspiration from culture, consumers, the outdoors, and emerging trends into color concepts that move across our product. From building mood boards and seasonal palettes to applying color to CADs, you'll work with a collaborative design team to help shape how The North Face shows up across Snow, Climb, Trail, and lifestyle. Bring your curiosity, creative eye, and passion for color, and help us inspire exploration through every shade.
What You'Ll Do
- Support the design team with seasonal trend and market research, concept ideation, and color design application.
- Assist in the creation of color palettes, mood boards, color decks, and seasonal tools, working closely with and under the direction of the Design Manager.
- Apply approved color direction to product CADs and/or croquis across assigned product areas.
- Preparing materials for seasonal milestones, reviews, and presentations.
- Bridge your understanding of The North Face brand aesthetic through our consumers, product categories, and color strategy.
- Develop foundational knowledge of the design process, tools, systems, and key milestones while building strong cross-functional partnerships.
- You bring curiosity, attention to detail, and a passion for learning, actively contributing to team reviews, workshops, and creative discussions.
What You'Ll Need
We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you'll need to succeed and grow. While formal education in a related field is great to have, we are most interested in your 1-2 years of relevant experience, including internships or professional experience, within color, design, or product creation.
- 1-2 years of relevant experience in color, trend, design, or product creation, ideally within apparel, footwear, equipment, or accessories.
- Exposure to trend and market research across performance and/or lifestyle products.
- Foundational understanding of color theory, consumer color trends, and color concepts.
- Experience applying color palettes to CADs and/or croquis.
- Familiarity with concept ideation, mood boards, and visual storytelling.
- Exposure to the seasonal design process and working toward key milestones and deadlines.
- Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite; experience with Figma and Microsoft Office is a plus.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and willingness to learn.
- Ability to collaborate effectively within a team and across functions.
- Flexibility and a positive mindset toward change.
- A passion for Snow, Climb, Trail, and lifestyle product.
This role operates on a hybrid schedule out of our HQ in Denver, CO three days a week.
Hiring Range
$60,480.00 USD - $75,600.00 USD annually
Incentive Potential: This position is eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential. Specific details of the additional compensation eligibility for this position will be provided during the recruiting and interview process.
