Who You’ll Work With
You will join the Jordan 3D Design Studio, reporting to the Sr. Director of 3D Excellence and working in close partnership with footwear design, product creation, engineering, and development teams. You will serve as the dedicated 3D expert for Sport footwear, collaborating with cross-category 3D peers and contributing to shared digital assets, workflows, and standards across Jordan Brand.
Who We Are Looking For
We are seeking an experienced and highly specialized Expert 3D Designer to drive digital creation within the Sport Team (Basketball, FBAT, Golf) — Jordan’s performance product category. This role demands advanced modeling capability, a performance-driven design mindset, and the ability to turn athlete insight and creative intent into expressive digital form with speed and rigor.
You bring strong sculptural instincts, fluency across modern 3D workflows, and the ability to move confidently between rapid exploratory modeling and refined digital prototypes. You thrive in early-stage creation, navigate through ambiguity, build clarity through iteration, and produce compelling renderings and animations that help teams see direction and make decisions faster.
You elevate digital craft by developing reusable assets, documented workflows, and high-bar examples that future teams inherit as Jordan continues scaling its digital creation muscle.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in in Industrial Design, Product Design, Footwear Design or relevant design degree or a combination of relevant education, experience, and training
7+ years in performance footwear or hard-surface 3D design
Mastery in 3D tools (e.g., Rhino, Grasshopper, Alias, Blender, Maya, ZBrush, Modo)
Strong rendering and animation skills for communicating form, material, and performance narrative
Experience with digital-to-physical workflows, including 3D printing and functional prototyping
Familiarity with USD or scene-graph workflows and interest in building scalable libraries
Portfolio demonstrating precision, form literacy, iterative thinking, and modern digital craft
Curiosity about emerging tools such as procedural workflows and responsible AI-assisted creation
Collaborative mindset with the ability to work fluidly alongside design, engineering, and development partners
What You’ll Work On
You will translate athlete informed concepts into high quality 3D assets that accelerate design clarity and decision making while contributing to repeatable digital systems that scale with the team.
Lead 3D creation for performance footwear from early sculpting to refined digital prototypes
Develop digital assets that balance ergonomic performance with Jordan’s identity and narrative
Produce renders and lightweight animations to communicate design intent and functional story
Build and maintain reusable digital bucks/lasts, underlays, and modeling templates
Create and document rapid concept-to-print workflows for prototyping and testing
Deliver USD-ready assets and support growth of Jordan’s digital asset library
Explore procedural, simulation, and AI-enhanced workflows where they provide meaningful creation value
Partner with footwear design, engineering, and development to solve complex form and manufacturing challenges
Share methods, resources, and workflows that elevate digital craft across the studio
Why This Matters
This role advances the way Jordan creates performance product in 3D. You drive digital clarity, speed, and quality while building foundational assets and workflows that strengthen the offense for seasons to come.
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.
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.
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