The Sr. Product Visualization Artist is an experienced creative and technical practitioner responsible for developing high-quality visualizations that bring footwear, apparel, and accessories to life. This role combines strong visualization craft with technical expertise and an understanding of how to communicate design intent, innovation, functionality, performance benefits, and consumer value.
The Sr. Product Visualization Artist independently leads complex visualization work, contributes to team standards and workflows, and collaborates across disciplines to deliver dynamic product experiences that support product understanding and business decision-making. The role also helps advance the team’s capabilities by exploring and applying new visualization approaches, tools, and emerging technologies.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will partner with various producers and cross-functional teams to understand incoming work and translate product, creative, and business objectives into clear visualization solutions.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
- Create high-quality product visualizations that bring footwear, apparel, and accessories to life.
- Develop dynamic visualization experiences that communicate design intent, innovation, functionality, performance benefits, and consumer value.
- Independently lead complex visualization assignments from defined requirements through final delivery.
- Create visualization assets such as Head-to-Toe looks, exploded views, feature storytelling, product demonstrations, interactive visualizations, and other emerging capabilities.
- Apply advanced knowledge of product visualization, 3D workflows, real-time technologies, digital asset creation, and visual storytelling.
- Identify technical or creative dependencies, risks, and gaps that could affect execution, and work with partners to resolve them.
- Balance creative quality, technical requirements, timelines, and scalability when developing visualization solutions.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of team standards, workflows, tools, and best practices.
- Support experimentation with and adoption of new technologies, including GenAI-enabled capabilities, real-time visualization, automation, and emerging ways of working.
- Share knowledge and provide guidance to less experienced artists through collaboration, critique, and mentorship.
- Help improve the quality, consistency, speed, and scalability of visualization work across the team.
What Success Looks Like
- Consistently delivers complex, high-quality product visualization work with minimal direction.
- Products are brought to life in ways that clearly communicate design, functionality, innovation, performance, and consumer benefits.
- Visualization work helps stakeholders better understand products and make more informed decisions.
- Demonstrates advanced creative and technical expertise across product visualization workflows.
- Effectively translates defined business, product, and creative objectives into compelling visualization solutions.
- Anticipates and resolves creative and technical challenges that could affect delivery.
- Contributes to improved team quality, consistency, efficiency, and ways of working.
- Successfully applies new tools, technologies, and techniques to meaningful visualization opportunities.
- Serves as a trusted collaborator and mentor within the team.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor’s degree in Art, Design, or a related field; will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training
- A portfolio is REQUIRED – please submit it with your resume or include a link to it on your resume.
- 5+ years of related professional work experience
- Solid foundation in 3D content creation, using Blender, Maya, or equivalent software.
- Working knowledge of Adobe creative tools, such as Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Designer, Photoshop, Premier, AfterEffects, or similar tools used for texturing, materials, and digital content creation.
- Established skills in modeling, animation, materials, texturing, lighting, and compositing.
- Eye for visual quality and attention to detail.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools and emerging technologies, with an interest in exploring how they can enhance creative workflows.
- Studio experience a plus
- Footwear and/or apparel experience/understanding a plus
Position Location & Schedule
This position is based at our incredibly beautiful worldwide campus headquarters location in Beaverton, Oregon. You'll work a "4/1 hybrid" schedule - Mondays - Thursdays are in the office and it's optional if you'd like to work Fridays from the Nike campus office or your home office.
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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 Art, Design, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training
- Portfolio submitted with the resume or linked on the resume
- 5+ years of related professional work experience
- Solid foundation in 3D content creation using Blender, Maya, or equivalent software
- Working knowledge of Adobe creative tools, including Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Designer, Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects, or similar tools
- Established skills in modeling, animation, materials, texturing, lighting, and compositing
- Strong visual quality judgment and attention to detail
- Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools and emerging technologies
- Studio experience
- Footwear and/or apparel experience or understanding
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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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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