From footwear designer to footwear product developer
25 of the 34 essential skills of a footwear product developer are already essential for a footwear designer — about 74% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from footwear designer in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 25
- skills carry over
- 9
- would be new
- 74%
- of the target job covered
- 34
- essential skills of a footwear product developer
What a footwear product developer does
Footwear product developers provide interface between design and production. They engineer the footwear prototypes previously created by designers. They select, design or re-design lasts and footwear components, make patterns for uppers, linings and bottom components, and produce technical drawings for a various range of tools, e.g. cutting dies, mould, etc. They also produce and evaluate footwear prototypes, grade and produce sizing samples, perform required tests for samples and confirm the customer’s qualitative and pricing constraints.
What carries over
25 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- analyse types of footwear
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- create mood boards
- create patterns for footwear
- create technical sketches for footwear
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- develop footwear collection
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear components
- footwear creation process
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- implement footwear marketing plan
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- last types
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- perform market research in footwear
- perform pattern grading
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- use communication techniques
- use IT tools
- work in textile manufacturing teams
What would be new
9 skillsEssential for a footwear product developer and not for a footwear designer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from footwear designer
2 roles- footwear product development manager20 skills in common
- leather goods designer11 skills in common
← footwear designerfootwear product developer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a footwear product developer?
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