Jeremy Siu

Outdoor footwear company. Responsibilities include technical drawing, prototype development, trend research, collection planning, and sustainable material innovation.

Junior Footwear Designer at Hunter boots UK (2025-02 – Present)

Outdoor footwear company. Responsibilities include technical drawing, prototype development, trend research, collection planning, and sustainable material innovation.

• Provide detailed technical drawings and specifications for prototype development. Weekly updates with the development team and/or factories on current projects. Review prototypes, amendments, fittings.
• Research trends, colours, materials, trims with a strong sense of the footwear market. Produce initial sketches, both hand-drawn and digital, of footwear concepts. Contribute with innovative and original designs to the collection.
• Create range plans, collection overviews and colour CADs. Prepare collection presentations for design reviews and keeping them up-to-date with design changes throughout the season.
• Research into innovative and sustainable materials, footwear constructions, production methods.
• Responsible for assisting in the design and development of trend and market-driven footwear collections each season.
• Work closely with senior designers, development team and other product categories to align brand design strategy.
• Assist with footwear catalogue photoshoots and collection launches
• Handle the development of eyewear lens and frame SS/AW seasonal colour updates.
• Check 2D&3D CADs for footwear BU and Trims.
• Solidworks 3D surface modelling for new eyewear frame concepts and physical proto of custom trims.
• Host regular cross-functional meetings with design, merchandise and production team members to keep track of on going projects and mitigating delivery risks.
• Keyshot rendering new eyewear and accessories concepts.

Hardgoods Design Developer at Rapha Racing Ltd. (2022-01 – 2022-06)

Cycling Footwear, Eyewear & Accessories company.

• Create 3D (Solidworks) CAD drawings referencing product design briefs.
• Double checking factory technical drawings.
• Approve samples for production.
• Communicate with sponsored athletes about existing product issues and new product concepts.

Hardgoods Developer at Rapha Racing Ltd. (2021-01 – 2021-12)

Cycling Footwear, Eyewear & Accessories company.

• Create 3D (Solidworks) CAD drawings referencing product design briefs.
• Double checking factory technical drawings.
• Approve samples for production.
• Communicate with sponsored athletes about existing product issues and new product concepts.

Assistant Hardgoods Developer at Rapha Racing Ltd. (2019-10 – 2020-12)

Cycling Footwear, Eyewear & Accessories company.

• Create 3D (Solidworks) CAD drawings referencing product design briefs.
• Double checking factory technical drawings.
• Approve samples for production.
• Communicate with sponsored athletes about existing product issues and new product concepts.

Footwear Designer at Quoc (2024-06 – 2024-10)

Performance footwear company.

• Create designs for cycling footwear that align with market trends, sales feedback and in-the-field customer testing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as product development, marketing, and sales to ensure designs meet business objectives
• Develop and maintain line plans and technical packs for products
• Create sketches and prototypes of designs
• Work with manufacturers to ensure designs are created to specifications
• Conduct research to stay up-to-date on market trends, materials, and production techniques
• Revise designs based on feedback from cross-functional teams and customers

Junior Product Developer at Gymshark (2023-02 – 2024-06)

Accessories company.

• Support and collaborate with senior designers, colour team and trim team.
• Building bill of materials and tracking sample status using Centric PLM system.
• Compare concept samples against target FOB.
• Work with customer service team to ensure correct product information is communicated.
• Handling development from design handover to pre-production sign off. (bags and luggages)
• To communicate and build a good relationship with overseas offices and vendors.
• Checking pre-production samples against design specification.

Freelance Industrial Designer at Freelance Industrial Designer (2022-06 – Present)

Componentry & Accessories

• Provide partners with concept sketches according to brief
• Concept visualisation using 3D CAD program such as Fusion360
• 3D Printing prove of concept prototypes
• Model making

3D CAD Design Technician at United Bike Co. (2017-05 – 2018-05)

Componentry company.

• Provide partners with concept sketches according to brief
• Concept visualisation using 3D CAD program such as Fusion360
• 3D Printing prove of concept prototypes
• Model making

BSc (Hons) in Product Design – University of Brighton (2015 – 2019)

Industrial Design ERASMUS Scholarship Scheme in Industrial Design – Politecnico di Milano (2017 – 2017)