Deckers Outdoor Careers

Deckers Brands, based in Goleta, California near Santa Barbara, builds its business on a small portfolio of powerful footwear brands: UGG, the sheepskin boot that became a global fashion staple; HOKA, the maximal-cushion running brand that grew from niche trail shoe to one of the industry's defining growth stories; Teva, the original sport sandal; and Koolaburra. Its careers are footwear careers with unusually distinct brand briefs sharing one corporate and supply-chain backbone.

For applicants, Deckers is a study in contrasts worth understanding before applying: UGG hires for fashion and lifestyle fluency plus sheepskin and boot construction; HOKA hires for performance credibility — designers and marketers who run; Teva serves outdoor and lifestyle channels; and group functions in Goleta and regional offices run design support, sourcing, digital commerce and wholesale for all of them. The official Deckers careers site, carried in the references, lists postings by brand and function.

Brand Product Careers: UGG, HOKA and Teva

Product roles at Deckers are organised by brand, and the briefs genuinely differ. UGG design and development work in sheepskin, suede and knit constructions across boots, slippers and fashion extensions, where material quality and hand-feel are the product. HOKA teams engineer foams, geometries and uppers for road and trail athletes, testing with elite runners; Teva balances outdoor utility with lifestyle collaborations. Product line managers in each brand run franchises — the Classic boot, the Clifton and Bondi, the Hurricane sandal — whose seasonal evolution is the commercial core.

Materials, costing and sourcing specialists support all three from shared functions, managing tanneries, factories and the quality systems of natural and technical materials alike. Because the portfolio is small, product staff see whole businesses rather than single categories, and movement between brands — a HOKA developer learning UGG's fashion calendar, for instance — is a recognised development route inside the Goleta campus culture.

Commercial, Digital and Retail Careers

Deckers sells through wholesale partners, its own e-commerce — a very large direct business for both UGG and HOKA — and brand stores and outlets. Commercial careers therefore span key-account wholesale, digital trading and site merchandising, performance marketing and the collaboration and influencer programmes that keep UGG culturally current and HOKA credible in run specialty. Brand marketing at HOKA in particular recruits from the running community itself; event, athlete and community roles are real career families here, not side functions.

Retail roles cover UGG and HOKA stores and outlets, with store staff trained in material stories for UGG and gait-and-fit basics for HOKA. Corporate Goleta functions — sustainability work on natural materials, finance, technology, human resources and a global supply chain organisation — support the whole. Applicants should read postings for brand and channel precisely: a digital role for UGG's fashion customer and one for HOKA's runners are different jobs wearing the same title.

Applying to Deckers Brands

Apply through the official Deckers careers site, filtering by brand, function and location, and bring brand-specific evidence: running participation and performance-footwear literacy for HOKA, fashion and material sensibility for UGG, outdoor channel knowledge for Teva. The company has grown quickly on HOKA's rise and periodically reorganises around it; live postings, not growth headlines, state current need.

A Deckers spell gives a concentrated asset — deep knowledge of one or two true footwear franchises, from material to marketing — in an industry where most experience is spread thin across categories. Alumni carry that franchise literacy to every performance and lifestyle shoe employer, which is to say the record appreciates precisely because the portfolio here is narrow and famous.

Two Franchises, Opposite Muscles

Working at Deckers means watching two kinds of brand power side by side. UGG's franchise rests on a material and a silhouette the whole world recognises; HOKA's rests on measurable performance adopted first by serious athletes. Staff who support both learn when a brand should trade on feeling and when on evidence — a judgement that transfers to every multi-brand portfolio, and one reason Deckers marketers and merchants are recruited well beyond the footwear industry.