Columbia Sportswear hires new Directors of Toughness

By

Jennifer Braun

Published
Dec 1, 2016

Columbia Sportswear announced on Wednesday that it has hired Faith Briggs and Mark Chase as the brand’s newest Directors of Toughness.
 
In this position, Faith and Mark will spend the next nine months testing Columbia’s sports gear in extreme conditions around the globe.
 
“The Directors of Toughness are integral employees at Columbia and help showcase the lengths that many of our employees go to in order to test our gear,” explains Columbia Sportswear Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Richelle Luther, in a news statement.

 
For the full-time, paid position, Columbia’s HR team fielded more than 4,000 applicants from the US, Canada and the UK. The applicants literally had to scale mountains, hike and kayake during the interview process for the job.
 
Faith Briggs is an accomplished runner and documentary film maker from Brooklyn, New York, while Mark Chase is a former semi-professional rugby player, joining the company from Gloucester, England.

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Last year, Columbia Sportswear launched a similar job hunt where two directors were hired for the then six-month position, where they traveled to places like Chile, Uganda and Ecuador.
 
Columbia Sportswear Company, has been creating apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment for outdoor enthusiasts since 1938. The company is based in Oregon, Portland.