Jobs at Nike in United States, Boston

The Product Merchandising team manages the Chuck Footwear Porfolio for men's, women's, and kids. This role will lead multiple teammates through the product creation process, obsessing over the needs of consumers our consumers, and partnering with cross functional peers. You will lead the product offense. This includes ensuring profitability while delivering fresh solutions for our consumer needs. Managing the sports line, you will work on lifestyle and performance product management teams across the genders to ensure alignment and drive a complete footwear portfolio offense. You will also collaborate with merchanding, design, development, and marketplace planning on the footwear creation process from line planning through final product approval. You will research our product, consumer, and marketplace, manage product creation workflow and data, maintain product tools, and effectively collaborate across functional partners. You will deliver on critical dates and hold yourself accountable to be a great teammate.

• Bachelor’s degree in Merchandising or a related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 3+ years Leadership of multiple direct reports in a fast pace, agile work environment.
• 8+ years' relevant experience in Footwear Product-Creation related roles. Women’s Footwear a plus.
• Influencing skills. Ability to drive vision and strategy across functions while respecting the balance of competing interests.
• Experience managing and developing a team of direct reports
• Keynote presentation building and presenting along with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proven experience translating a footwear vision into a multi-year line plan.
• Relationship management and professional athletes
• Passion for skateboarding and sneaker culture.
• Able to demonstrate a deep understanding of and streetwear consumers (tastes, habits, preferences, interests & behaviors)
• Optimism. Dedication to bring hopefulness and confidence about the future.
• Franchise, Classification, and Lifecycle Management
• Media Event Presenting and interviews
• Attention to detail and deadlines.
• Ability to travel globally up to 20% of the time.
• This role is based in our Converse HQ in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lead, Footwear Sourcing

Boston, MA

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

We are looking for someone who can operate effectively within a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a consistent focus on meeting deadlines and achieving key milestones. The role entails managing ambiguity and establishing robust processes and decision-making frameworks to support seasonal sourcing activities. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills to optimize allocation procedures, evaluate capacity trends each season, and develop practical solutions for routine operational issues.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, engineering or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 5+ years of procurement, sourcing, costing, or relevant experience in supply chain
• Strong material expertise in the Footwear or Apparel industry preferred
• Great knowledge of suppliers landscape
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to go the extra mile to find solutions
• Must be comfortable with navigating ambiguity, and have the ability to navigate through a complicated stakeholder matrix to achieve results and drive strategic decision-making

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You will act as the primary point of contact for all cross-functional teams regarding in-season sourcing timelines, leading and executing the forecast allocation and capacity management processes for each seasonal milestone in collaboration with the Converse Liaison office and manufacturing partners. Your key responsibilities will include overseeing seasonal model allocations by considering cost, capacity, and delivery objectives across the manufacturing network to ensure cost efficiency and on-time delivery.

Forecast Allocation

• Drive the seasonal allocation process to align the buy to source strategy while optimizing for cost, E2E lead times, and supplier performance.

Capacity Management

• Establish centralized capacity data source & capacity decision framework that spans across all time horizons that will enable timely and efficient capacity decision making

Utilization/Loading

• Utilize forecast optimization methodologies to align source strategy with proper loading and utilization rate targets for factory partners across seasonal time horizons

Model Optimization:

• Seasonal model planning activities related to model source assignment + optimized model shifts and new allocations based on costing RFQs.

Reporting

• Present reports & serve as sourcing main point of contact for cross functional teams for in season supplier performance (Model allocation, capacity, loading, seasonal strategy, capabilities, costing)

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Converse Retail Marketing develops marketing strategies to accelerate how we serve consumers and drive conversion in both owned doors and with our retail partners. We drive the vision and seasonal direction for Converse retail through brand defining and 365 storytelling. We lead marketing plan development and execution that connects the consumer experience across the integrated marketplace.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5+ years of experience in a marketing role, preferably with a focus on retail brand/account marketing, brand marketing, or digital direct marketing.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• Experience developing retail consumer journeys and programming in both digital and physical retail.
• Strong understanding of retail, visual merchandising, marketplace, consumer experience, and multi-channel marketing.
• Experience managing direct reports.
• Solid understanding of digital platforms including Apps, Email, SEO, Performance Marketing and Social Media.
• Ability to lead and manage multiple projects while remaining detail oriented and able to deliver against functional deadlines.
• Experience with managing budgets, authoring marketing briefs and working with external agencies.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen. Proven capability to use data to drive business decisions & marketing optimization.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 20% of the time.
• Position located at Converse HQ (Boston, MA).

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You will be the driver of the strategy and overarching plan for fashion account marketing at Converse. You’ll lead account marketing plans from inception, to sell-in, and to execution, and coach your team throughout that process to ensure alignment. Your seasonal marketing approach will support larger brand and product priorities, create brand distinction and contribute to connected storytelling across the integrated marketplace.

• You will consistently collaborate with your retail marketing counterparts, commercial, brand marketing, direct, creative, external account marketing teams, and agency partners to ideate and bring your marketing plans to life in the marketplace.
• You will create omni-channel consumer journeys that connect the integrated marketplace experience, both across fashion and department store accounts, and in collaboration with other channels of wholesale distribution, owned retail and digital direct. Your point of view will consider the current marketplace, consumer insights and consumer trends.
• You will develop long-term, annual and seasonal retail fashion segment and key account marketing plans and strategies based on an understanding of brand, retail brand, merchandising, account and marketplace priorities. Your integrated plans will include in-store, digital, social, and branded experiences.
• You will establish and maintain relationships with your account counterparts, building trust season-over-season.
• You’ll develop deep expertise in the retail landscape of the fashion and department store account base, traveling the market regularly and continuously challenging how to improve our brand presence.
• You will be highly detail oriented, managing and maximizing your budget, and tracking/processing purchase orders and credit memos for your marketing tactics.

You’ll report to the Sr Director, Global Brand Creative and work day to day with your peers in Brand Creative, Brand Management, Sports Marketing, Consumer Engagement, Digital Direct, Brand Planning and Brand Operations. You’ll also work closely with the Brand Creative and Brand

We’re looking for a Global Brand Creative Senior Principal Designer to lead our Basketball and Catalyst categories. As an integral member of the Global Brand Creative team, you will be responsible for the development of world class seasonal integrated marketing creative that creates brand and business impact for the Converse brand. Through cross functional and cross geo collaboration you will help drive the future of the brand as an authentic street-style brand that serves youth.

You have experience when it comes to directing other creatives and are familiar with working in close partnership with writers, strategists, and producers. You are able to both understand and participate in strategic conversations and can lead others through creative conception, development, and execution.

You have proven experience working at scale and can lead complex work streams independently – managing and prioritizing your time as needed. Youre outstanding at crafting the detail all the way to delivery and using this experience to teach others around you.

You help the team implement creative across multiple channels, from photo direction, to understanding and working against a narrative, to graphic design, communication, moving image and environmental design (where needed). A successful candidate is versed in digital platforms and digitally native storytelling, with a strong understanding of creative and design trends across all social platforms and owned commerce platforms.

• Absolute respect, proactivity and deep appreciation for diversity and equality in the workplace. You must embody Nike’s culture and embrace the maxims that it stands for.

• A minimum of 10 years+ creative experience in art direction and/or design, with ideally a strong focus on consumer brands.

• Bachelor's degree in Design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

• Great human and communication skills. This includes a strong ability to listen, and coach.

• Proven exceptional ability to apply and perform design skills, including drawing/sketching, typography, ideation, color theory, use of texture, art direction, visual presentation development and layout

• Demonstrated ability to apply these skills in innovative ways that elevate brand excellence, with a comprehensive knowledge of design processes.

• Experience directing photography (talent and product), illustration, and external agencies.

• Knowledge and sensitivity to trends influencing design in general, and in graphic design, lifestyle specifically.

• You will have a strong foundation of technical knowledge when it comes to digital and innovative practices.

• You will be able to distil briefs down in a way that allows you to showcase your thinking in creative ways

• Experience of collaborating effectively with other functions, departments and external stakeholders –the ability to embrace when not directly owning key workstreams

• Passion for reinventing the way we approach traditional ways of working. Not scared to challenge the past and in doing so push new creative ways of thinking and working

• Great sense of judgment and decision-making. Emotionally intelligent with a growth mindset

• Strong verbal and written communication in English & relationship management skills

• Experience working in and passionate about sport, the sports lifestyle and the culture around it

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Drives the development of seasonalbrand product stories across the Basketball and Catalyst categories

• Works with Sr Director, Global Brand Creative and Global Creative Production team to research photographers, talent and collaborators for seasonal objectives. Distill and collate to create mood boards that will lead to setting the seasonal photographic and style direction

• Supports team to develop new/relevant ways to do visual/digital storytelling

• Responsible for the creation and update of all seasonal assets across imagery, copy, and design systems

• Works with our Global Brand Creative team to developseasonal creative briefs and own the working documents for asset delivery overview

• Createseasonal visual centers and toolkits that translate complex technical and business concepts into easy-to-understand communication pieces and executional guidance

• Manage and direct multiple agency relationships across multiple projects with a clear design voice and an unbending creative rigor

• Management teams in North America, Western Europe, China and Global Partner Markets. You’ll also work cross-functionally with Innovation, Design and Consumer Insights.

**WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES IN ATLANTA or BOSTON AREA, WITH PREFERENCE OF ATLANTA.

We need a senior-level engineer who can lead complex cross-cloud projects without direct people management responsibilities, balancing hands-on development with technical mentorship. The ideal candidate pairs deep SFMC build skills (AMPscript, SSJS, SQL) with DevOps fluency (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS Lambda/S3) and a product mindset oriented toward privacy-first consumer experiences.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.

• 5+ years of hands-on engineering in SFMC or comparable martech stacks, including Journey Builder and API integrations.

• Expert-level coding in AMPscript, SSJS, SQL, JavaScript; strong Git workflow discipline; experience automating CI/CD with GitHub Actions or Jenkins.

• Proven record leading project workstreams or acting as feature owner in agile squads (Level-35 IC).

• Working knowledge of AWS services (Lambda, S3) and REST/SOAP integrations.

• Familiarity with consent-management concepts and tag-management platforms (Tealium, TrustArc); no deep GDPR/CCPA specialization required.

• Salesforce Marketing Cloud and/or Tealium/TrustArc certifications is preferred.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to simplify complex technical topics for non-technical partners.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Design and build new SFMC capabilities across Journey Builder, Email Studio, Mobile Studio, and Marketing Cloud APIs.

• Engineer and maintain consent and preference flows that pass data bi-directionally between Tealium tags, TrustArc CMP, and SFMC audiences in near real-time.

• Write performant AMPscript, SSJS, and SQL to drive dynamic content and segmentation.

• Automate deployments and testing pipelines via GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and serverless functions in AWS.

• Serve as feature lead on sprint-scale initiatives, providing design reviews and mentoring junior contractors while partnering with Product, Privacy/GRC, and Consumer Marketing stakeholders.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this ideal candidate is you, you’ll be working with our Kid’s Design Director, the Kids’ Design Team and other functions such as product merchandisers and developers to create a line of kids shoes four seasons per year. You’ll be receiving and interpreting briefs, coming up with creative solutions that hit the brief, sharing your ideas via drawings, presentations and mood boards and working to make those solutions a reality through Illustrator documents, material exploration and responsible costing.

Most days involve self-directed design with check-ins as needed with various team members. Your typical day is a mix of creative design ideation, designing new creation and seasonal collection, and creating the technical specifications to hand off to our Development Team to prepare product for manufacturing. You need to be able to direct your own workflow to a certain extent and will need to be a proactive, organized and goal-oriented designer, but you will always have the support you want and need from your director and your teammates.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

TO BE CONSIDERED, YOU MUST SUBMIT A CREATIVE DESIGN PORTFOLIO. PLEASE PROVIDE WEBSITE LINKS OR ATTACH A PDF FILE WHEN YOU APPLY.