Quiksilver Careers

Quiksilver began in Australia in 1969, built on boardshorts, wetsuits and snow clothing for surfers and riders, and grew into the flagship of the Boardriders group alongside Billabong, Roxy and DC Shoes. Its design language — technical boardshorts, bold prints, team-rider surfers and snowboarders — defined a generation of surf retail, and its American base in Huntington Beach, California, housed design, marketing and corporate teams for the group. Many older careers pages still describe that single-company world. Roxy, the group's women's brand, followed the same corporate arc, so the careers story here is really about a boardsports portfolio rather than one label.

That world ended in stages. Authentic Brands Group acquired Boardriders in 2023 and now owns the Quiksilver brand, running it through licensees by category and territory rather than as one employer. Liberated Brands operated the brand's retail stores and e-commerce in the United States and Canada until its licences ended in late 2024; it filed for Chapter 11 in February 2025 and its stores closed. Trade reporting placed Quiksilver's North American wholesale and e-commerce business with O5 Apparel. There is no single Quiksilver hiring desk, so this guide explains who actually employs people on the brand.

Working for the Brand Owner: Authentic Brands Group

Authentic owns the trademark and decides what the brand means: its positioning, its marketing direction, which categories exist and which partners may use the name. Its own roles connected to Quiksilver sit in brand management, licensing, business development and marketing, largely within its wider sports and lifestyle organisation. Staff in these jobs manage licensee relationships, approve product and campaigns against brand standards, and plan how a surf name extends into new categories or countries without losing credibility with core riders.

These are stewardship jobs rather than garment jobs. A brand manager here might spend the week reviewing a licensee's range plan, negotiating a territory extension and checking that a campaign still looks like Quiksilver rather than generic beachwear. Applications for this side belong to Authentic's own careers channels, and the strongest candidates combine licensing or brand experience with genuine knowledge of surf culture — the company can teach the licensing model more easily than it can teach the difference between a core surf account and a fashion chain. Athlete roster and event work sits near this layer too, since its team-rider surfers and snowboarders remain the brand's most credible media channel.

Working for Licensees: Where the Product Jobs Live

The people who design, make and sell Quiksilver product today mostly work for its licensees. In North America, O5 Apparel took on the brand's wholesale and e-commerce business after the Liberated Brands collapse, including apparel design, product development, sales and digital roles, and it hired staff from the previous operator. Elsewhere, category specialists hold their own pieces: wetsuit and technical partners, footwear and accessory licensees, and regional companies that run the brand in Europe, Australia, Japan and Latin America under their own agreements.

In practice that means a Quiksilver job advertisement may carry a licensee's name, a partner's office and a contract describing work on the brand rather than employment by it. Product roles remain recognisably surf-industry work — boardshort and rashguard development, print and graphic design rooted in surf art, fabric choices judged in salt water — but the employer, the benefits and the career ladder belong to the licensee. Read postings for the operating company's name before assuming anything about who is hiring. Boardshorts and wetsuits are the technical heart of the range, and licensees recruit people who can argue about stretch fabrics, seam construction and water temperature as fluently as colour and print.

Retail and E-Commerce After the Store Closures

The most visible change for jobseekers is retail. The North American Quiksilver, Billabong and Roxy stores run by Liberated Brands closed with its 2025 wind-down, so the store careers older guides describe — surf shop selling, store management in beach towns and outlet locations — no longer exist under that operator. Quiksilver product still reaches shoppers through wholesale accounts: independent surf shops, sporting goods chains, department stores and online sellers, whose own staff sell it alongside other brands.

E-commerce work likewise sits with the operators and retailers who run the brand's online sales in each territory, covering site trading, content, customer service and fulfilment. Surfers with retail experience are not locked out of the brand — they are hired by the surf shops and chains that stock it, or by licensees for account and field roles — but the application goes to those companies. Outside North America, partner-run stores continue in some markets, each advertised by its local operator. Seasonal surf retail experience still counts as evidence in applications to those operators and accounts; what changed is whose name appears on the payslip.

Applying in a Licensed-Brand World

Apply through the official careers channels listed in the References below, and check which company each posting names: Authentic for brand and licensing roles, O5 Apparel and other licensees for North American product and wholesale work, and regional partners elsewhere. Treat any listing that promises a job with a standalone Quiksilver company as out of date. In applications, lead with surf-industry substance — boardshort, wetsuit, swim or snow product knowledge, core surf retail relationships, or athlete and event marketing — because every operator in the chain is buying exactly that credibility.