About CHK
CHK is an Indian sneaker brand building contemporary footwear for the next generation of consumers. We obsess over silhouette, proportion, materials, color and the small details that turn a good sneaker into one people actually want to wear.
As we expand our footwear portfolio, we’re looking for a Footwear Designer – Color, Materials & Product to join our team and help shape how CHK products come to life.
The Role
This isn’t a role focused only on sketching new sneaker silhouettes. We’re looking for someone who loves playing with color, materials, textures and finishes and can constantly find new ways to reinterpret our existing and upcoming sneakers.
You’ll work across our footwear portfolio to develop new colorways, material combinations and product treatments — experimenting with suede, leather, mesh, synthetics, textures, washes, trims, laces, outsoles and other details to create products that feel fresh while remaining distinctly CHK.
You’ll also stay closely involved as your designs move from a screen to physical samples and eventually into production.
Simply put:
Your job is to make our sneakers look better, feel fresher and keep evolving.
What You’ll Do
1. Color & Material Design
• Create new colorways for existing and upcoming CHK silhouettes.
• Build seasonal and evergreen color palettes based on fashion, sneaker and cultural trends.
• Experiment with combinations of suede, leather, mesh, synthetics, textiles and other footwear materials.
• Explore textures, finishes, overlays, stitching, laces, branding treatments, outsole colors and smaller product details.
• Develop tonal, contrasting and more experimental executions of existing sneakers.
• Create color/material mock-ups and visualizations before sampling.
• Maintain a continuous pipeline and library of future CHK colorways and material concepts.
2. Product Design
• Work with existing silhouettes to explore recent executions without unnecessarily redesigning the underlying shoe.
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📌 Footwear Designer (Mumbai)
🏢 CHK
📍 Mumbai