Nike Senior Director Innovation GFB Footwear Product Design 

United States, Oregon, Beaverton 

653266409

As a creative leader, you will motivate the team, celebrates wins, and cultivate a climate that encourages an open collaborative creativity through equity, inclusion and diversity.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you will establish and feed the creative vision & design directions for
new Footwear creations.

You will champion a culturally connected, encouraging creative vision with emphasis on elevating the product designs showcasing the forward-thinking innovation, and performance experience that will set the new pace within the Global Football market to set the trend and own the industry.

You will build, hold, and maintain the best standard of practice and design excellence, ensuring the highest standard of quality, consistency, accuracy while pushing the boundaries of creativity!

You will lead category design resources, processes and relationships to ensure project standards and timelines are met. You will also build and run your own seasonal/annual project workload and will be asked at times to extend outside of the primary activity of Global Football to support the larger Nike Design community. In addition, you'll work in conjunction with design leadership to develop design and optimally handle the annual goal setting and evaluation process of your team.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in product creation, or design and development or Combination of relevant education, experience and training.
• Minimum of 10 years Footwear Product Creation (Design and Development) experience and knowledge.
• Creative future visioning, Setting aspirational Design Directions, High taste-level and critical thinking.
• Innovation, consumer experience, and deep performance rooted product creation knowledge.
• Championing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Project Management experience.
• Team oriented mentality and willingness to partner with others.
• Successful experiences in working efficiently with cross-functional and cross-enterprise teams.
• Possesses digital capabilities and competence.
• Strong communication and relationship management skills.
• Presentation/Communication style: Clear, Concise, and Thoughtful (strong verbal and written skills). Ability to present new ideas or seasonal concepts to small and large groups, including addressing executive leaders, and external partners or customers.
• Passion and high awareness for sustainability.