Every successful team at NIKE, Inc. needs a brilliant game plan. Strategy teams shape and drive the company’s long-term growth agenda, setting direction on the opportunities that matter most, aligning senior leadership, and accelerating impact across a complex, global organization. Within Innovation, Strategy helps NIKE, Inc. navigate future-facing questions and turn emerging possibilities into bold strategic choices that create advantage and fuel growth.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH:
You will be part of the Innovation, Design, and Product (IDP) Strategy team, collaborating across the Innovation Creation Division at NIKE, Inc. You will partner closely with the Chief Innovation Officer and Innovation Leadership Team, strategy leaders, and cross-functional partners to tackle key Innovation questions, shape strategic choices, and set clear direction.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
We are seeking an accomplished leader with strong strategy craft and a track record of turning complex questions into clear strategic direction. You bring analytical rigor to frame challenging business questions, creativity to see multiple paths forward, and influence to shape choices and catalyze action with senior leaders. You create structure from ambiguity and use constraints to sharpen possibilities, synthesizing diverse inputs, connecting across strategic priorities, and developing clear options and recommendations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science, Innovation, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- 9+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, corporate or business-unit strategy, or strategic planning
- Demonstrated experience leading complex strategy work from problem framing through executive decision-making and action.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree
- Experience in complex, global, matrixed organizations
- Experience working at the intersection of strategy and creation
- Experience building strategic frameworks that drive decisions and action
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders and build alignment
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive storytelling skills
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON:
As the Innovation Strategy Director, you will lead strategic planning, author strategies and plans, and serve as a critical thought partner to senior and executive leaders on complex innovation opportunities. As a player-coach, you will personally lead critical strategy work while managing and growing a direct report. Your work will span four core areas:
- Develop Future Strategies: Bring internal, external, and future-oriented perspectives together to identify possibilities, shape strategic choices, and set direction.
- Build Integrated Growth Plans: Translate strategy into integrated plans that align priorities, actions, and investments.
- Activate Strategy: Partner with leaders and teams to clarify ownership, enable decisions, and mobilize action against the strategy.
- Assess Impact: Define the KPIs that matter, assess progress, and translate insights into what comes next.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science, Innovation, or a related field; suitable combinations of education, experience, and training accepted
- 9+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, corporate or business-unit strategy, or strategic planning
- Experience leading complex strategy work from problem framing through executive decision-making and action
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree
- Experience in complex, global, matrixed organizations
- Experience at the intersection of strategy and creation
- Experience building strategic frameworks that drive decisions and action
- Ability to influence senior leaders and build alignment
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive storytelling skills
Nike Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nike and has not been reviewed or approved by Nike.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is complemented by options such as a Mega Backdoor Roth and deferred compensation for eligible earners. Financial coaching and structured savings programs support long-term financial security.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a stock discount sits alongside broad-based equity vehicles like RSUs and non-qualified stock options. These avenues expand wealth-building opportunities beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes maternity and paternity time, recently expanded in the U.S. to 16 weeks and extended to part-time retail teammates. Additional supports include childcare assistance at select locations and family-building benefits such as fertility, surrogacy, and adoption.
Nike Insights
What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., we innovate to serve athletes*. Every teammate - from coder to creator - plays a role in making these athletes’ dreams real. Our tech, data, and digital teams push limits every day, building the future of sport and the tools that drive it. Here, curiosity is fuel. Innovation is the game plan. Different perspectives keep us on the offense. You’ll solve challenges worth tackling, grow fast and belong to a team that backs you to do the right thing. Bring your drive. Bring your bold. Let’s move the world, together. Take your first step at nike.com/careers * If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
Why Work With Us
At NIKE, Inc., your dedication fuels the future of sport. There is a sense of pride that comes from representing an iconic brand and shaping its future. Here, we treat every day as a new opportunity to push boundaries, ask tough questions and share whole-hearted convictions. We are a team – united by the belief that anything is possible.
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