Keenfootwear
Wholesale Marketing Production Design Manager
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Wholesale Marketing Production Design Manager
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Posted
3 hours ago
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Job Summary
The Wholesale Marketing Production Design Manager develops and executes production design for in-store and digital marketing initiatives across DTC and key wholesale accounts, applying a strong understanding of brand strategy to drive brand visibility and sell-through performance. This role is accountable for the development and elevation of internal and external presentations, ensuring they are strategically aligned and visually compelling, and partners cross-functionally to deliver high-quality, best-in-class marketing assets that support business objectives.
Essential Functions
Descriptions
- Develops and executes seasonal in-store wholesale marketing initiatives across key accounts, contributing to elevated brand presence and improved sell-through performance within strategic, specialty, and key run specialty accounts.
- Prepares and delivers internal and external presentations, including seasonal milestone meetings (e.g., Seasonal Kickoffs, Sales Meeting Milestones, Monthly Recaps, Quarterly Reviews) and account-facing meetings (e.g., Top-to-Top, Pre-Line, Final Line), ensuring materials are accurate, visually compelling, and aligned to brand standards.
- Partners cross-functionally with US Marketing to execute design solutions for marketing projects with accelerated production timelines, enabling timely delivery of in-season activations and supporting the team’s ability to respond to emerging business opportunities.
- Design and visualize in-store experiences, including permanent fixtures and seasonal storytelling, tailoring solutions to diverse wholesale environments while applying best practices in consumer engagement and brand expression
- Adapt and optimize global seasonal toolkits into market-relevant digital marketing assets for paid media and social channels, ensuring consistency in brand voice while making informed decisions to effectively meet wholesale partner objectives and regional needs.
Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without cause.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university required.
- Minimum three (3) years of production design experience required with experience in outdoor or brands with a strong lifestyle component preferred.
Any equivalent combination of experience and education which clearly indicates the ability to perform the essential functions of the position may substitute on a year for year basis.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) to produce high-quality, on-brand deliverables.
- Strong understanding of visual design principles, including layout, typography, color theory, and hierarchy.
- Working knowledge of digital marketing, social media, and retail environments (DTC and wholesale).
- Understanding of brand standards and product storytelling, with outdoor/technical experience preferred.
- Strong attention to detail across both visual and written content, including copyediting and quality control, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and brand alignment.
- Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with accountability for driving work to completion.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate ideas clearly and contribute to internal and external-facing materials.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to support business objectives.
- Awareness of current trends, tools, and best practices in retail and digital marketing, applying insights to enhance creative output and execution.
- Flexibility and adaptability, including the ability to work under tight deadlines and adjust to evolving business needs.
- Photography skills are a plus.
Travel Required: Yes, 25% of the time
Base Salary: $81,000.00 - $88,596.00
This range represents the low and high ends of this position's anticipated base salary range. The actual base salary will depend on numerous factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location. Our base salary is just one component of our competitive total rewards strategy, which includes numerous benefits and perks as well as specific health and welfare benefits.
Why Work at KEEN: Driven by a passion for life outside, KEEN is a values-led, independently owned brand from Portland, Oregon, that’s on a mission to create original and versatile products, improve lives, and inspire outside adventure. Founded in 2003, KEEN launched a revolution in the footwear industry with the introduction of the Newport adventure sandal and has donated more than $18 million to non-profit organizations and causes around the world to promote responsible outdoor recreation, including conservation efforts to protect open spaces. KEEN strives to show the world through its products and its actions that a business for good can actually be good for business. By giving back, reducing impact, and activating communities and individuals to protect the places where we work and play, KEEN puts its values in motion and takes action to leave the world a better place.
Fuerst Group, KEEN, and Chrome are equal opportunity employers. We value an inclusive and diverse community. Qualified candidates of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.


