: Footwear Designer (with Merchandising Expertise)

Location: Bengaluru

Employment Type: Full-time

Apply only if you have a footwear design experience.

About Us

Monrow is among the fastest-growing D2C fashion brands in India.

Monrow is a PETA award-winning best footwear and bag brand. Led by ex-Versace leadership, and with senior team members from Anita Dongre and Myntra, we are based in Bangalore and have a strong DTC business with a loyal customer base. We're scaling rapidly and on a mission to transform into a data sciences-driven creative company.

At Monrow Shoes & Bags, we believe fashion and functionality can co-exist.

Fashion + comfort is the DNA of our Brand.

As India’s highest-rated comfort-first footwear brand and a PETA-awarded vegan brand, we’re building something bold. With a growing pan-India presence and a culture rooted in innovation and ownership, this is the perfect place to make an impact.

We’re looking for a Footwear Designer who blends creativity with commercial intelligence. Someone who can design trend-right footwear while also understanding consumer demand, pricing logic, and merchandising strategy. This role is perfect for a designer who enjoys working end-to-end from concept to shelf.

Key Responsibilities

1 - Footwear Designing, Product Development

- Create seasonal footwear collections aligned with brand identity, customer profiles, and market trends.
- Develop sketches, mood boards, material stories, and tech packs for sampling.
- Collaborate with vendors, factories, and internal teams to ensure timely sample development.
- Ensure product quality, fit, comfort, and durability meet brand standards.
- Forecast demand and plan inventory to maximize sales and minimize markdowns.

Define assortment mix, price points, and SKU depth based on consumer insights.





2- Data-Driven Decision Making

- Analyse sales data, customer feedback, and market trends to optimize product mix.
- Use dashboards and BI tools to track performance and inform future planning.
- Identify growth opportunities within categories and recommend actions.
- Work with Business team to define category mix, price points, and SKU depth.
- Ensure designs are commercially viable and aligned with revenue goals.

3 - Cross-functional Collaboration:

- Work closely with sourcing, production, and marketing teams for seamless product launches.
- Coordinate with the e-commerce and retail teams to ensure product storytelling and visual merchandising are aligned with design intent.

4 - Fashion & Trend Alignment

- Stay ahead of global and local footwear trends to curate relevant assortments.
- Collaborate with design teams to ensure collections reflect both fashion and comfort.
- Balance creativity with practicality to deliver products customers love

Skills & Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Footwear Design, Fashion Design, or related field.
- 2–3 years of experience in footwear design; experience in merchandising is a strong advantage.
- Strong understanding of materials, lasts, construction techniques, and comfort engineering.
- Proficiency in excel, Data Savvy
- Ability to interpret data and translate insights into design and assortment decisions.
- Solid aesthetic sense, trend awareness, and commercial mindset.




- Excellent communication, presentation, and vendor coordination skills.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

- Strong analytical skills; proficiency in Excel, merchandising tools, or BI platforms.
- Excellent fashion sense with awareness of trends and consumer preferences.
- Strong communication, presentation, and vendor coordination skills.
- Ability to balance creative vision with commercial objectives.
- You think like a designer and a business partner.
- You enjoy balancing creativity with practicality.
- You understand what sells, why it sells, and how to design for it.
- You thrive in a fast-paced D2C environment and love building products customers adore.

Why Join Us

- Work with a young, dynamic, fashion-driven team.
- Freedom to experiment, innovate, and influence the product roadmap.
- Opportunity to shape collections for a fast-growing Indian footwear brand
- Learn automation, dashboard-based decision making, and data-led product planning to elevate your design and merchandising skills.

How to apply:

Mandatory questions included in the interview screening process:

Kindly email your answers along with your resume & design portfolio: [email protected]

- Share 2–3 footwear designs from your past work and explain the commercial reasoning behind each (target customer, price point, expected sell-through).
- Describe a time when sales data or customer insights influenced your design or assortment decisions. What changed and why?
- What tools do you use for design and what tools, if any, have you used for dashboards or basic data analysis?
- Explain your understanding of the footwear development cycle — from concept to production — and highlight where you collaborate most with merchandising.

📌 Footwear Designer – Brand & Innovation (Bengaluru)
🏢 Monrow World
📍 Bengaluru