Designer, Outdoor & Seasonal Recreation

Help us boldly shape retail in Canada

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world-class Owned Brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to be there for Canadians from coast-to-coast. We are relentlessly focused on innovating at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on the best talent to drive the company forward. It is an especially exciting time to join Canadian Tire and its group of companies.

To help define where and how we work, CTC has introduced Hybrid Workplace Personas. While each role fits into a different persona category, this may evolve as employees progress in their career or business needs change. The Designer, Outdoor and Seasonal Recreation position is categorized as a Maker, which means that the incumbent will be working with products, samples, technology or equipment that require frequent presence on a CTC campus.

The Product Designer is a part of a highly motivated team of design professionals that share an appreciation and passion for outdoor adventure. You are inspired by innovative design and recognize that style, performance, and quality are all part and parcel to creating considered products.

Through the direction from senior team members, collaboration with cross functional partners and research, the designer will create concepts and production ready design strategies that meet the needs of our customers. With the direction outlined in design Briefs the designer will initiate and interpret research to create new product concepts to meet the needs of our consumers.

As a product designer, you will be creating products for all CTC outdoor recreation brand labels (Woods, Outbound, Huntshield, Yukon Gear, Helly Hansen); for categories such as Backpacks, Lighting, Tents, Sleeping Bags and Camp Accessories.

You are equally comfortable developing fresh ideas as you are refining proven concepts. As a product designer, you will communicate product concepts through line sketches, photo renderings, technical specification packages. You use colour, patterns, textures and imagery to communicate the line’s core brand positioning. Highly detail-oriented, you thrive in a fast-paced environment where design projects are delivered on time and on budget.

What you’ll do

• Accountable for creating products that are on-brand, ensures the design meets all requirements & targets as briefed by the product team through collaborative concept presentations, sample reviews with all stake holders and manufacturing partners.
• Effectively execute seasonal product creation goals and deliverables, by managing the cadence of product development according to the product creation calendar.
• Build productive relationships with our manufacturing partners, product teams and all other cross functional partners, through effective communication and appropriate onsite travel/visits to manufacturing partner’s facilities.
• Ensure all new projects and current mainline products are engineered to meet and exceed cost targets and financial objectives.
• Support the broader business team members to deliver project deliverables on time and on budget.
• Ability to incorporate all the different insights from global marketplace trends, construction techniques, materials, fabric, color and category needs to deliver market ready product.
• Attend selected trade shows for market research and attends sales meetings to gain thorough understanding of customer and product requirements. 
• Accurately assesses the overall competitive market landscape to design brand appropriate equipment that reflects an understanding of the target consumer.