Director, Apparel & Accessories Design - Consumer Products - Motorsports

Location: Henderson, NV, USA; full-time, on-site position. Work at events and approximately 30% domestic and international travel; evening, weekend, and holiday work may be required.

Compensation is described as a California salary-transparency estimate, but no exact amount is provided.

Company

Insomniac produces large-scale music festivals, concerts, and club events and is expanding into motorsports apparel and merchandise through global brands and partners.

What you will do

• Set the creative direction, design strategy, and operating plan for the Consumer Products - Motorsports apparel and accessories portfolio.
• Lead design managers and designers across multiple categories, seasonal collections, and consumer opportunities.
• Translate consumer insights, cultural and market trends, and brand direction into seasonal frameworks, category strategies, and product narratives.
• Guide apparel and accessories collections from concept through prototypes, fittings, sample approval, and go-to-market readiness.
• Partner with product line management, development, merchandising, marketing, supply chain, finance, vendors, and manufacturers to balance creativity, quality, feasibility, margin, and delivery.
• Build talent, capacity plans, scalable design processes, calendars, and operating rhythms while resolving execution risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in fashion design, apparel design, product design, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible apparel and accessories design experience within the apparel, sportswear, lifestyle, or consumer-products industry.
• 5+ years of direct people-leadership experience, including managing and developing design professionals and at least one people manager or senior design direct report.
• Experience establishing creative direction and leading multiple apparel or accessories categories through seasonal concept, design, development, and commercialization.
• Expertise in apparel materials, garment construction, outerwear functionality, fit, technical design, tech packs, schematic development, and sample execution across lifestyle and performance products.
• Strong collection-building and assortment-design skills, including translating consumer and market insights into cohesive narratives across color, silhouette, material, graphics, and key looks.
• Ability to lead complex multi-category calendars while balancing creative ambition, consumer relevance, financial goals, quality, and execution requirements.
• Experience partnering with product line management, product development, merchandising, marketing, and domestic and international vendors or manufacturers.
• Strong strategic thinking, decision-making, presentation, communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills; proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, 3D design, and AI-powered rendering software.
• Ability to work in high-growth, evolving environments, build structure, manage ambiguity, and lead multiple complex creative priorities.
• Valid passport and willingness to travel approximately 30%, including internationally.
• Applicants for employment in the U.S. must already possess work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship by Insomniac.
• Must tolerate loud noise and drastic temperature changes at event locations and work in an open-concept office.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of motorsport, sport, or lifestyle consumer segments.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, inclusive, high-performing creative culture focused on curiosity, innovation, constructive feedback, and accountability.
• Work includes events and collaboration with global brands, partners, vendors, and manufacturers.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified applicants with disabilities and for religious needs.
• Equal employment opportunities are provided without regard to protected characteristics.