ACG, “All Conditions Gear,” leads Nike in considered design for outdoor sport. With a focus on distinct innovation, location-based research, and a commitment to sustainability, ACG inspires athletes around the world to chase their dreams on the trail. This is your opportunity to help shape the future ACG and be part of a leading brand in the outdoor industry.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for an outstanding Sr Design Director to combine their Footwear design experience, problem solving abilities, team leadership, relationship building, management skills, critical thinking, and creativity to help lead the future of the industry.
The ideal candidate needs to be a highly creative designer and team leader, have the ability to recognize and build high quality designs, and lead a multi-disciplinary design team which includes product designers, material designers, color designers, and graphic designers.
This person will be passionate about elevating the consumer experience by meeting the needs of the ACG consumer through the impact of culturally connected influences and narratives. They will be crafting, developing and implementing design direction by demonstrating the overarching seasonal creative direction of the performance division.
As a leader, you will motivate the team, celebrates wins, and cultivate a climate that encourages an open collaborative mentality through equity, inclusion and diversity.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
If this is you, you will lead and participate in Key ACG initiatives - design through execution. You will champion a culturally connected vision with emphasis on product design integrity, forward thinking innovation, and performance right solutions within the category portfolio. Seasonally, you will evaluate consumer trends, macro global insights and marketplace analysis to drive a connected experience across all models and styles within Basketball.
You will communicate and build on design vision, results, and stories to a variety of audiences and run presentation projects at all stages. You will bring innovation into the category through strategy and execution with the advanced concept groups and confer with others to ensure outstanding design excellence!
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 may be asked at times to extend outside of the primary activity of ACG 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
This role does have direct reports and reports directly to the ACG Creative Director, while regularly partnering with functional product leadership teams and key downstream business partners to encourage a culture of creativity that aligns to the broader creative direction.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor's Degree in product creation, or design and development, or equivalent combination of education, experience or training.
- Minimum of 10 years Product Creation (Design and Development) experience and knowledge.
- Creative future visioning, High taste-level and critical thinking.
- Innovation, consumer experience, and product creation knowledge.
- Champion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Project Management experience.
- Team oriented mentality and shown willingness to partner with others.
- Shown experience working in 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 awareness for sustainability.
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.
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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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