NIKE
Lead, Global Social Creative Marketing, Basketball
NIKE, Beaverton, Oregon, us, 97078
Nike Digital Marketing exists to serve the athlete at the pace of culture in the spaces that matter most to them. This team is designed to connect the emotion of the Nike Brand, product, and experiences in new and powerful ways. The Digital Marketing offense delivers disruptive digital strategies to maximize brand concepts.
As of the Digital Marketing offense, the Global Social Media team; shaping the strategic vision and implementation across all social media platforms where Nike is engaged. As the paradigm of brands on social media becomes increasingly complex, Nike Global Social Media is responsible for building and deepening the comprehension of the space for the entire organization. This is done by partnering, sourcing and disseminating a variety of industry and platform-specific information to anyone participating or influencing the end-to-end spectrum of content creation and distribution. Additionally, Nike Global Social Media is responsible for the planning, programming and publishing of all global-level channels. As such, marrying the above information with seasonal objectives and audiences is integral to the development and output of efficient and effective briefs and brand behavior.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The Global Social Creative Lead for Nike plays a critical role in leading social creative strategy and creating connected experiences that engage audiences across key platforms. This position will synthesize information from external partners and across the organization to deliver a consistent creative experience for consumers across our channels, demonstrating Nike’s leadership in social media.
In this role you will be visible to senior leaders within Global Brand Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Commerce, and Creative. You want to be a part of this team because you are a passionate creative that is knowledgeable about Global Sport and Sport Culture (basketball focused). You understand the evolving landscape of social media and what it takes to stand out creatively in this space. You lean into social and creative innovation and understand how it will be adopted and brought to life across social. You are a mobile first digital evangelist, a thought partner, and a consumer advocate. You obsess creative trends across Sport and social media and are excited to develop social media creative strategy that provide elevated experiences to our consumers. You have experience working with high profile athletes and external partners. You thrive in a fast paced work environment and are a self starter.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
Does this sound like what you do? In this role, you will be working with our Digital Marketing, Brand Marketing and Creative partners to shape all the creative experiences that live within social media. You will be responsible for developing and coordinating the execution of our channel creative strategy inclusive of tone and voice. You will respond to creative needs across seasonal marketing briefs, lead content creation to deliver social right content, and oversee channel creative standards to ensure they are met across both seasonal and always on marketing executions.
A typical day/week looks like
Partner cross-functionally and with Geo’s to communicate social creative direction and strategy
Write and refine marketing briefs to ensure platform-right, channel-right creative is being driven
Partner with Creative and Brand Marketing to ensure alignment across our channel creative strategy.
Manage and facilitate overarching creative shares with Brand, Digital, Creative, Marketing leadership and GEO partners across the organization
Meet with agency partners and Consumer Services to ensure creative strategy is being properly implemented
Developing plans and creative executions for content capture coming from campaign/marketing shoots
Developing, writing and finessing copy aligned to channels tone and voice
Leading the social creative review process and leading final sign off / alignment with global and geo creative teams
Developing content plans for campaigns and one off marketing shoots aligned to channel’s creative strategy and consumer needs
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
In this role, you will sit in the Digital Marketing team, reporting to the Social Director. You will work with social leads and an agency partner for programming, publishing, and creative needs. You will partner closely with the Digital Marketing and Brand to ensure overall channel strategy, creative strategy and executions align with overarching brand and business goals.
WHAT YOU BRING
5+ years of strategy experience working on a social creative team or at a social creative agency
Bachelors Degree or higher; or equivalent combination of education, experience and training
Functional Expertise across social channels such as Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube and Pinterest
Proven experience working on social creative strategy for large brand campaigns
Expertise in social content capture specifically for large brand activations
Experience with building content capture plans for large productions
Proven experience in managing up, across, and downstream with peers and partners
Confirmed experience working with creative partners on building creative strategies for social platforms (examples of projects encouraged)
Experience working with high profile talent inclusive of athlete, celebrities and/or influencers
Experience working with and managing Agency partners
Comfortable in handling ever-changing platform landscapes while providing clear POV’s and flexibility to align / educate / compromise with partners.
Early adopter and problem solver for digital platforms (Comfortable trying new tools and adapting to process improvements)
Experience working and leading teams within Sprinklr, AirTable, Asana, Figma (or other)
Excellent oral and written communication skills (experience writing social and/or digital marketing campaign copy
NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, protected veteran status, or disability. NIKE is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call +1 503-671-4156 and let us know the nature of your request, your location and your contact information.
As of the Digital Marketing offense, the Global Social Media team; shaping the strategic vision and implementation across all social media platforms where Nike is engaged. As the paradigm of brands on social media becomes increasingly complex, Nike Global Social Media is responsible for building and deepening the comprehension of the space for the entire organization. This is done by partnering, sourcing and disseminating a variety of industry and platform-specific information to anyone participating or influencing the end-to-end spectrum of content creation and distribution. Additionally, Nike Global Social Media is responsible for the planning, programming and publishing of all global-level channels. As such, marrying the above information with seasonal objectives and audiences is integral to the development and output of efficient and effective briefs and brand behavior.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The Global Social Creative Lead for Nike plays a critical role in leading social creative strategy and creating connected experiences that engage audiences across key platforms. This position will synthesize information from external partners and across the organization to deliver a consistent creative experience for consumers across our channels, demonstrating Nike’s leadership in social media.
In this role you will be visible to senior leaders within Global Brand Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Commerce, and Creative. You want to be a part of this team because you are a passionate creative that is knowledgeable about Global Sport and Sport Culture (basketball focused). You understand the evolving landscape of social media and what it takes to stand out creatively in this space. You lean into social and creative innovation and understand how it will be adopted and brought to life across social. You are a mobile first digital evangelist, a thought partner, and a consumer advocate. You obsess creative trends across Sport and social media and are excited to develop social media creative strategy that provide elevated experiences to our consumers. You have experience working with high profile athletes and external partners. You thrive in a fast paced work environment and are a self starter.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
Does this sound like what you do? In this role, you will be working with our Digital Marketing, Brand Marketing and Creative partners to shape all the creative experiences that live within social media. You will be responsible for developing and coordinating the execution of our channel creative strategy inclusive of tone and voice. You will respond to creative needs across seasonal marketing briefs, lead content creation to deliver social right content, and oversee channel creative standards to ensure they are met across both seasonal and always on marketing executions.
A typical day/week looks like
Partner cross-functionally and with Geo’s to communicate social creative direction and strategy
Write and refine marketing briefs to ensure platform-right, channel-right creative is being driven
Partner with Creative and Brand Marketing to ensure alignment across our channel creative strategy.
Manage and facilitate overarching creative shares with Brand, Digital, Creative, Marketing leadership and GEO partners across the organization
Meet with agency partners and Consumer Services to ensure creative strategy is being properly implemented
Developing plans and creative executions for content capture coming from campaign/marketing shoots
Developing, writing and finessing copy aligned to channels tone and voice
Leading the social creative review process and leading final sign off / alignment with global and geo creative teams
Developing content plans for campaigns and one off marketing shoots aligned to channel’s creative strategy and consumer needs
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
In this role, you will sit in the Digital Marketing team, reporting to the Social Director. You will work with social leads and an agency partner for programming, publishing, and creative needs. You will partner closely with the Digital Marketing and Brand to ensure overall channel strategy, creative strategy and executions align with overarching brand and business goals.
WHAT YOU BRING
5+ years of strategy experience working on a social creative team or at a social creative agency
Bachelors Degree or higher; or equivalent combination of education, experience and training
Functional Expertise across social channels such as Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube and Pinterest
Proven experience working on social creative strategy for large brand campaigns
Expertise in social content capture specifically for large brand activations
Experience with building content capture plans for large productions
Proven experience in managing up, across, and downstream with peers and partners
Confirmed experience working with creative partners on building creative strategies for social platforms (examples of projects encouraged)
Experience working with high profile talent inclusive of athlete, celebrities and/or influencers
Experience working with and managing Agency partners
Comfortable in handling ever-changing platform landscapes while providing clear POV’s and flexibility to align / educate / compromise with partners.
Early adopter and problem solver for digital platforms (Comfortable trying new tools and adapting to process improvements)
Experience working and leading teams within Sprinklr, AirTable, Asana, Figma (or other)
Excellent oral and written communication skills (experience writing social and/or digital marketing campaign copy
NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, protected veteran status, or disability. NIKE is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call +1 503-671-4156 and let us know the nature of your request, your location and your contact information.