Adam Hiler

Built and led a multidisciplinary 3D design team that elevated digital product creation across footwear and apparel. Drove the adoption of advanced tools and workflows to accelerate design iteration, enable virtual sampling, and strengthen decision making. Partnered with senior leadership to align digital practices with strategic brand objectives and deliver more impactful launches. Directed the development of a USD based pipeline and custom digital tools to unify workflows, enhance visualization, and future-proof design capabilities.

As the Sr. 3D designer for Jordan Brand, I drive digital creation from ideation to manufacturing for Jordan Footwear. Utilizing digital tools to enable the creation of innovative concepts and designs that appropriately reflect the Jordan Design Ethos. I design, build, and present assets that effectively communicate Design intent to a variety of internal and external partners. I am responsible for building and managing a world class 3D design team to partner with the greater cross-functional Design Teams in executing against seasonal drops, creative launches, and special projects. Additionally, I work closely with other 3D design leads at Nike to set 3D standards and best practices for innovation, ideation, advanced product modeling, design visualization, and design for manufacturing.

As a 3D footwear designer II in the Global Football category at NIKE, I aid the product development life cycle of all NIKE soccer footwear. Partnering with product design, I employ digital tools to explore concepts, inspire limit testing design, and lead in the company wide digitization of the NIKE product development process.

Design consultancy with multiple international clients and projects ranging from consumer electronics all the way to transportation. Previous Clients -Walmart -Aroma -Midea -Black and Decker -Klock Werks Kustom Cycles -Passion Church -GE -Maximum 1 Sports Apparel

As a Senior Industrial Designer for QBP, I have a key leadership role in developing and conducting user research, product strategy, and utilizing human centered processes to design innovative and technologically advanced products. Leading design for All City Cycles, Surly Bikes, Civia Cycles, and iSSi pedals, my projects are diverse and range from innovative bike accessories and bags to complete bicycles designed from the ground up

As the Industrial Design Manager I lead the industrial design team in collaborating with internal and external customers to develop industry leading designs for a variety of products. I worked daily with the VP and Sales and VP of New product Development to ensure the Industrial design department maintained business relevance, I lead a small team which produced a 1 million dollar value stream via industrial design service model, and participated in the Soprtech Leadership academy which focused on training and grooming emerging leaders. Managing a team of designers, overseeing and providing guidance on projects such as: - Honda Pioneer 1000 Cab Sytem - Club Car Onward golf car and Tempo golf car - Polaris General Cab System - Lund Boat Modular Console - Kubota RTV Cab System

As lead industrial designer I was responsible for the complete aesthetic direction of multiple projects. From project brief through production I ensured that the aesthetic/visual direction maintained continuity. I worked with all stakeholders (internal and client-based) to bring visually appealing, well engineered, and cost effective solutions to market. Additionally, as Lead Designer I participated in hiring and mentorship of junior designers, contributed to quarterly and annual goal setting sessions for the New Product Development department, and delivered value and context to the front-end sales process.

Aa a junior industrial designer I focused on sketching/concepting for a wide range of customers in the powersports industry. Through sketching, rendering, 3D Cad (surfacing primarily in Autodesk Alias), and physical prototyping (3D printing, clay , and cardboard models) I was part of a team the brought multiple products to market for top tier customers.

Worked with sales, marketing, and engineering, to design new house ware products for a fast pace market. While working at Aroma I was able to be apart of a team that brought multiple projects from sketch all the way through production.