Senior Stylist – Lifestyle (m/f/d)

Salary: 59.000 - 99.000 € per year

Requirements:

Expert proficiency with design apps and advanced Microsoft apps skills

Understanding of AI-enabled visualization and virtual presentation technologies is beneficial

Exceptional aesthetic judgment and a highly developed sense of style, composition, proportion, color, and visual storytelling

Understanding of basic photography, studio settings, and image creation processes

Strong visual and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create impactful creative direction, concepts, and visuals

Strong interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders

Proven experience with the entire design process, including project scope, planning and preparation, design steps, and production

Ability to think strategically and translate ideas into actionable plans

Strong affinity for and interest in current and future consumer trends across sports, design, and culture

Passion for adidas and its mission

Fluent English

Ability to travel; a drivers license is required

University degree in design, creative studies, or similar education

5–8 years experience in the sporting goods or fashion industry, or in design

Extensive experience in creative styling and casting, wardrobe management, and styling execution across multiple projects and stakeholders

Personnel management experience preferred

Responsibilities:

Drive the styling vision across Lifestyle categories to ensure a strong, consistent adidas brand expression

Translate global and category-specific direction, product stories, and cultural trends into compelling style frameworks and executions that elevate product presentation and support campaigns, launches, and milestones

Create, manage, and execute styling solutions for collections, campaigns, launches, and brand and category moments

Partner with creative, design, marketing, and product teams to bring concepts from idea to execution

Lead casting strategy development and execution, including agency partnerships, model booking, and street casting, ensuring authentic and relevant talent representation

Observe, analyze, and interpret fashion, cultural, consumer, and market trends, including subcultures, music, and pop culture

Ensure timely execution of styling, sample, and casting requests by establishing ownership, allocating resources, and providing ready-to-use styling assets and direction

Lead wardrobe and sample logistics across studios, archives, showrooms, external partners, and shoot locations, ensuring samples are delivered, tracked, used, and returned efficiently and on time

Direct and manage external styling resources, including agencies, freelancers, models, and creative partners, and identify new talent and resources

Review, provide feedback on, and approve creative executions throughout production, working with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure delivery and brand consistency

Maximize creative and operational results within budgets and timelines

Identify opportunities for improvement and innovation, and drive enhancements to styling processes, tools, and ways of working

Mentor and guide junior stylists, designers, and key partners, fostering a collaborative, high-performing, and inspiring creative environment

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We are adidas, an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnic and social backgrounds, nationalities, sexual orientations, religions and beliefs, and people with apparent or non-apparent disabilities. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination and provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. In this Senior Stylist role, you will define and drive styling strategy across the BU Lifestyle Creative Direction Team, translating creative vision and design direction into consumer-relevant collections, head-to-toe looks, and brand experiences. The role connects creative intent with commercial relevance and supports consistent brand expression across consumer touchpoints, from sell-in to sell-out. Key relationships include BU Lifestyle leadership, functional and project teams, design operations, product creation, GTM, brand development, marketing, communications, CD&I, and external creative resources. We celebrate diversity, support inclusiveness, and encourage individual expression.

last updated 42 week of 2026