Director, Basketball Brand Marketing, NYC

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $157,600.00 in our lowest geographic market to $332,300.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience.

Information about benefits can be found here.

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for an experienced Brand Director to lead our lead our Basketball Brand Marketing team in New York City as well as play a key role in shaping the future of Nike Basketball from the epicenter of hoops. To be considered for this role, you must have an unrivaled understanding of the New York City basketball consumer and city landscape, be a consumer and hoops obsessed marketer, a team-first collaborator, energy-giving partner, and brand innovator with an openness to learn.

As part of our New York City Brand Management team, you will live and breathe New York hoops and be the voice and advocate for our consumer.  You will leverage your deep basketball knowledge and relationships across New York City grassroots programs, leagues, and communities to activate the stories we tell and the moments we create.  Reporting directly to the Senior Director of NYC Brand Management, this role will be a critical pillar of our city offense, helping to drive brand relevance and create lasting connections with athletes* in the city and beyond. You will be on the cutting edge of driving innovative strategies for NYC sport and culture that will have an impact and influence on the global stage.

Qualified candidates should have experience leading brand strategy, orchestrating cross-channel marketing plans, navigating partnerships with athletes, leagues, and community organizations, brilliantly executing seasonal activations across the city, and managing diverse teams. They should also have a comprehensive grasp of the NYC sport landscape, particularly basketball  a keen sense of nuances and intricacies of the NYC basketball communities and key figures along with the ability to lead multiple projects across a matrixed organization.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will partner with our North America Men’s Brand Management team and marketing functional partners to bring a NYC dimension to brand marketing plans, inclusive of marketing briefs, storytelling, marketing initiatives and activations that fuel our seasonal priorities and long-term community goals.

You will work with Geo & City Brand and functional partners to drive a robust plan for NYC Basketball and continually build new consumer experiences that accelerate basketball brand and business growth opportunities internally and externally, setting the stage for from NYC basketball to the world.

You will champion our NYC consumer and regularly share insights to teams in NA and Global.

As the NYC Basketball Brand Director, you will:

• Obsess the New York City basketball consumer and their needs, consistently delivering experiences that connect with their communities

• Drive and deliver the NYC basketball brand strategy, delivering consistent consumer experiences and activations designed for the NYC consumer

• Manage collaboration from idea to execution, engaging with our key cross-functional and cross-sport partners in the city and Geo

• Lead strategic partnerships to extend Nike brand priorities through key teams, programs and communities across professional and grassroots basketball

• Develop, plan and execute NYC seasonal basketball grassroots platforms in conjunction with Nike EYBL teammates to create inspiration and aspiration for NYC hoopers

• Authenticate NYC’s voice in key NBA and WNBA moments and campaigns

• Lead, manage, and develop the NYC Basketball Brand Marketing team

• Build and nurture relationships with the NYC basketball leagues, athletes, communities, grassroots partners

• Strategically drive basketball business growth through city marketing

• Find new innovative ways to connect with the NYC hooper on the court and in their communities and playground

• Partner with Sports Marketing to elevate athlete storytelling and integration into New York City programming and activations

• Support an end-to-end process to gain insight from consumers including cultural trends and share insights regularly with the organization

• Identify integrated opportunities between basketball and other lifestyle or sport teams to build the strongest end-in-mind experience for the consumer across performance and culture

• Track and manage seasonal campaign progress, including recapping and teardowns and have a pulse on the city consumer to feed insights back

• Ensure that the marketplace is at our brand standards in partnership with functional teams.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

As the NYC Basketball Brand Director, you will report directly into the NYC Senior Brand Director.  

You will lead the NYC basketball team to orchestrate the  marketing offense that drives brand storytelling and activations, fuels consumer demand and builds authentic connections with our basketball communities. Key internal and external partners include:

• NYC, NA and Glbl Brand Management

• Digital & Retail Marketing

• Energy Marketing

• Brand Creative

• Sports Marketing

• Communications

• Integrated Media

• Sales & Merchandising

• NBA/WNBA partners

•  Agency & Production partne

WHAT YOU BRING

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Marketing, Business, Communications or a closely related field.

• 10+ years of experience in brand marketing or related experience with  a deep understanding of the basketball ecosystem in NYC, across elite and everyday athletes

• Demonstrated genuine passion and deep understanding of basketball, culture, fashion, trends and growing the sport across underserved communities.

• Extensive knowledge of Nike basketball product and athlete portfolio

• Experience leading and managing teams, with a team-first mentality and ability to influence decision makers

• External facing experience with league and retail partners

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to balance creativity with organization and discipline in fast moving, ambiguous environment.

Functional Competencies:

Team Leadership: Leads by example, with the ability to instill trust & confidence in the team. Brings energy and confidence into every room

Creativity & Inspiration:  Creative strategist that drives bold, insight-led ideas and inspires and motivates others to be fearless in their thinking

Expert Communicator: Quarterbacks the cross functional offense and represents Nike Basketball across the Nike matrix and externally

Marketing Expertise: Expert in leading brand and idea-led cross channel marketing that targets specific consumers with the most impactful levers across our owned and partner ecosystems.

Product Knowledge: Obsessed with product innovation and differentiation. Expert at shaping and communicating the most relevant Nike Basketball product construct and offerings to create differentiation in our marketplace and delivering premium, cohesive retail journeys that differentiate our product online to offline.

Passion: To create new generation of Nike Basketball for the future NYC hooper

Leadership Competencies:

Grow Yourself. Constantly pushing yourself to learn, expand and grow through a curious and infinite mentality.

Instills Trust. You listen, understand and collaborate. Always embracing diverse points of view.

Acts with Courage. You take informed risks and showcase a bold, creative and innovative mentality.

Grow Together. You focus first and foremost on helping your team grow by investing time in them and advancing the common objectives.

Champions Effective Partnership. This role will be the driver of collaboration with a process-oriented approach and finding ways to drive efficient work.

Grow the Business. You think as an enterprise leader, always making decisions based on our strategic priorities and aiming to grow our brand and business.

Thinks Strategically. You envision a future that doesn’t exist. You translate consumer insights into opportunities that can be converted into clear strategic direction.

Cultivates Innovation. You are a driver of learning agility, encouraging failure in pro of progress and learning. You embrace disruption to create.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.