Designing sporting goods for a new era.
Product Experience Design Lead Stephan Lintner believes the future of sporting goods depends on uniting creative skills and cross-industry knowledge.
Do what you design.
Culture
Living at the base of Mount Untersberg, nature invites us to move. Before work, during work, after work, or on the weekends. There’s a lot of passion packed into KISKA, and it has a habit of finding its way into our work.
We’ve got alpine climbers, RC World Championship competitors, ultra-endurance athletes, Olympians, rugby players, skiiers, snowboarders, kite surfers, and almost every type of motorcycle rider in-house. Then there are the passions that have nothing to do with competing: yoga, meditators, gamers (with controller or dice), dancers, and one person who goes to a “silence retreat” every year who ironically has the loudest laugh in the studio.
Mathis Maerten, Junior Apparel & Footwear Designer, climbing the Nago-Torbole in Arco, Italy.
We love having all of it around…because doing things gives you a unique perspective.
And all those interests have a habit of following us into work. In a place so passion-driven, inspiration culture is catching. Our MX riders know what hours on a bike actually feel like. Our ultrarunners understand their kit after one hundred kilometres, not just kilometre five. And someone who sews knows the difference between an idea for a garment and something that works on their body.
Danny Slinger, Engineer, building his RC crawler.
“RC racing takes me everywhere. Arizona, Vietnam, all around Europe. The competitions are very hard but also very fair which makes them insanely fun. Competing at the top means everyone you face is highly skilled and every millisecond counts.”
Danny Slinger | Engineer
Danny won 2nd place at the 2025 World Radio Controlled Crawler Association (WRCCA) World Championships. Photo credits by: European RC Crawling Association
“Ski-touring up mountains which are minutes away from where I live is another level of joy. It’s freedom and silence and adventure. Sitting at work and looking out the window gives me a very special feeling of happiness and gratitude to live in such a beautiful place.”
Rebecca Papistock | Marketing Project Manager
Rebecca Papistock ski-touring in the Birgkar gully, Hochkönig.
“Going for a run is like a reset. I’m able to think about nothing and totally relax (like meditation) and the next second I’ll be thinking about every topic that was in the background of my brain. And that’s when ideas come!!”
Corentin Bricout | Senior Footwear & Apparel Designer
Corentin Bricout at the Mozart 100 by UTMB. An ultra-trail race in the Austrian Alps around Salzburg.
“There’s something humbling about spending 15+ hours on a bike, alone with your thoughts, discovering that your limits are often further away than you imagined. Much like the creative process, progress comes through patience and resilience. The journey itself can be just as rewarding as the outcome.”
Quang Pham | Senior Content Designer
Quang Pham at the Traka 360, a 360km ultra-endurance gravel race. Photocredits by: The TRAKA
“I started Taekwondo because I watched Power Rangers as a kid. Every kid wanted to kick like that! The sport gives me as much mentally as it does physically and it has taken me to (almost) every continent around the globe.”
Franka Anic | Senior Experience Designer
Franka Anic competed in the 2012 London Summer Olympics and fought in the bronze medal match. She was Slovenia’s flagbearer during the closing ceremony. Photocredits by: Aleš Fevžer
“I just [REDACTED] love it. It’s passion, pushing yourself, learning, and looking for a little bit more. I love the whole cycle behind it: sketch it, prepare it, ride it, clean it…and design the next one!”
Maxime Lefebvre | Transportation Design Director
Maxime Lefebvre basically lives on the motocross track and races in the Austrian Motocross Series on the weekends.
Some of our team enjoying a long lunch ride.
This niche expertise (on many topics) is why we work with so many high-performance brands. We’re our own best test group!
So, for us, lifestyle isn’t separate from work – it’s the foundation of it. We believe that by living the experiences we design for, we create more authentic and impactful products and experiences.
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