Nike SENIOR PRINCIPAL ADVANCED ATHLETE FOOTWEAR CONCEPTS INNOVATION 

United States, Oregon, Beaverton 

504911483

Proven Experience

• 6+ years of experience in in footwear product creation, human-centered research, innovation or a design-related field
• Excellent portfolio of accomplishments for creating and delivering early-stage briefs or concepts
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills with the ability to present and communicate to senior, high-profile leaders
• History of project line management expertise preferred
• Management experience preferred

Approach & Behaviors

• A global innovative approach, entrepreneurial spirit, inspires others to action through a passion for creation without a roadmap
• Energy giver and great teammate with a desire to make a difference
• Deep passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion with a proactive attitude
• Influential and able to collaborate across a matrix organization
• Strong teammate and successful collaborator, who embraces differences, values perspectives, and acts with courage
• Resilient, agile, and optimistic; embraces ambiguity and the fluid nature of early innovation and keep teammates and projects moving
• Understands that failure is part of the creative innovation process and as much will lead self and team reflection to capture and apply findings
• Well informed and stays connected to sport & culture on the international stage

Skills

• Ability to lead teammates by example, setting the standard for the collective team
• Creatively agile and adept in innovative thinking, vision and problem solving
• Ability to build a vision, and uphold creative and strategic direction end-to-end to ensure that vision carries through project transitions
• A networker who is adept at building passionate teams, attracting and seeking talent to get after the work
• A listener and synthesizer who can make the complex simple and find clarity in ambiguity
• Thinks holistically, finding opportunities for radical enterprise solutions
• Ability to build a portfolio of focused, future opportunity whilst driving existing projects and programs
• A seasoned leader, ability to self-manage, can work
• Can partner with internal and external parties (consumer insights, agencies, athlete science/sports research, design, testing, development, engineering, manufacturing)
• Advanced project management skills, proactively partnering to facilitate effective meetings and manage key dates and deliverables with project partners
• Expert-level narrative development and communication skills, including the ability to prepare and deliver project presentations to senior leadership

Other

• 20% travel