A two-billion-dollar global leader in the high performance and lifestyle footwear industry, Skechers USA, Inc. designs, develops and markets more than 3,000 styles for men, women and children. Skechers' success stems from its employees, high-quality, varied product offering, diversified domestic and international distribution channels, and targeted multi-channel marketing.

The company offers two distinct footwear categories: a lifestyle division which includes Skechers Memory Foam and the charity line BOBS from Skechers, and Skechers Performance which includes Skechers GOrun and Skechers GOwalk footwear. Through licensing agreements, the company also offers branded apparel, bags, eyewear and more.


Celebrity product endorsees for Skechers' collections include the world famous drummer Ringo Starr, multi-platinum recording artist Demi Lovato, model and actress Kelly Brook, TV personality Brooke Burke-Charvet, legendary quarterbacks Joe Montana and Joe Namath, baseball stars Pete Rose and Mariano Rivera, and The Voice winner Danielle Bradbery. In addition, elite marathon champion and Boston Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi, elite runner Kara Goucher, and pro golfer Matt Kuchar represent the Skechers Performance Division.


The Company sells its footwear in department, specialty and independent stores, as well as through more than 1000 Company-owned Skechers retail stores and online at skechers.com. Beyond the United States, Skechers product is available in more than 120 countries and territories through an international network of subsidiaries in Canada, Brazil, Chile, Japan, and across Europe, as well as through joint ventures in Asia and distributors around the world.


Skechers ships product through a 1.82 million square-foot, fully automated, LEED-Gold certified distribution facility in California that serves North America. The Company also operates a 753,000-square-foot facility in Belgium that serves Europe and ships directly to the rest of the planet.

We're an eclectic bunch of people who are working to solve interesting technical problems, create new applications, and in general working to help support a $6.4 billion-with-a-B wholesale and retail company in the 21st century. We aren't ninjas, and we aren't rock stars, but we are hard-working teams of curious, smart people who love the work that we do.

The Internet is taking on more and more importance at Skechers, and as such the web team is becoming more involved with more departments inside the rest of the company. We have a lot of projects demanding our attention, and we need your help! As our SVP of IT likes to say, you'll never get bored for lack of projects here.


ESSENTIAL JOB RESULTS

• Leads the design and implementation of new client-side look-and-feel and functionality. You'll be in charge of writing HTML and CSS for new sites, applications, and the like. If you know the Model View Controller pattern, your primary responsibility is to own the View.
• Reviews existing systems for information architecture, usability, and workflow improvements. We're always looking to make the overall user experience of all our applications faster and easier. Great user experience helps us generate more revenue and saves us more time, and we have empirical evidence supporting that conclusion.
• Identifies, researches, and resolves design-related issues and helps to establish and maintain coding best practices. We like to create style guides not only for graphics, but also for HTML and CSS code, so we can reuse as much code as we can. We love using design frameworks not only to help development but to enforce stylistic rules. Got a favorite framework? We'd love to hear about it.
• Supports finished applications by tracking and fixing design-oriented bugs. Nobody's perfect, we know, and so besides creating new functionality you'll be called on to help support your existing code and designs. Our "clients" in other departments have changes from time to time, and we're quick on our feet to make those changes or fixes.
• Work as a member of a group or autonomously if needed. The web team has a broad spectrum of talent, including pure server-side developers, pure client-side developers, and people who do a bit of both. We work very well as a team, and we're "agile-like", so you'll be working closely with the rest of the team to help determine our direction, and sometimes you'll be in the flow and won't want to be disturbed.
• Follows through to job completion. That's pretty self-explanatory. We like to iterate quickly, and our automated build system is almost always running.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Yes

JOB REQUIREMENTS

What do you need to know in order to be successful here?

We really like to push the cutting edge in terms of client-side functionality on the web, as that's where we see the greatest speed and usability gains. Thanks to this, our front-end developers learn a lot of new techniques, frameworks, and various tips and tricks to make sure we stand out in a rapidly-evolving web. Our number one requirement is that you're excited about learning new technology and design patterns, and that you're willing to bring new ideas to our group meetings.

Also...

• Strong skills in the following: HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop. This goes without saying for this kind of position. If you're uncomfortable using software that generates HTML and CSS code for you because you don't like the lack of control over the code output, you'll fit right in.

• Experience with CSS3, Sass, Susy, responsive design, and JavaScript is a plus. Each of these has different learning curves, but this gives you an idea as to where we're going on the web. We've adopted a mobile-first attitude, primarily based upon the rapid shift of traffic to handheld devices.

• Strong design and layout sense with demonstrated examples. We're looking for a portfolio that says "I get it". Like our customers, that design direction is generally judged within a few seconds. Be eye-catching and knowledgeable.

• Strong communication skills, able to succinctly explain issues to various technical skill-sets. Not everyone that you talk with is going to be able to understand why the IE box model is so broken, so you'll need to be able to explain why IE testing and fixes are such a large chunk of development time. We're a tightly-knit team, and we all know how to play to each other’s' strengths and weaknesses.


EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• B.A. degree in design, media arts, or a B.S. in computer science, or equivalent experience. The degree is not as important as the experience. We're looking for someone with a good eye for that delicate balance of artwork between design and code.

• Five or more years of website design and development for multiple platforms and screens. "Tested on my Mac / works in Chrome" is a running joke around the web team, but we're pretty serious about cross-platform, cross-device support. We're looking for someone who hasn't just done intranet development on IE.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to walk; sit, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel. The employee is occasionally required to sit for long period of times.