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Nike SENIOR PRINCIPAL ADVANCED ATHLETE FOOTWEAR CONCEPTS INNOVATION 
United States, Oregon, Beaverton 
504911483

02.07.2024

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