Senior Director, Concept Excellence Design
NIKE - Beaverton, Oregon, us, 97078![NIKE](/api/image?src=https%3A%2F%2Fgeneral-board-default.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdesk-360x180.webp&w=640&q=75&f=webp)
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We are looking for a Senior Director to join our Concept Excellence team in Nike Global Design. Concept Design is groundbreaking in defining the future of Nike, bridging the worlds of emerging innovation, athlete insights, product design, and brand storytelling to develop the ideas that will define the brand! Concept Excellence is the creative function that ideates, illustrates, and shepherds Nike’s key initiatives to athletes around the world. This Senior Director leads this process, across all consumers and all functions. Candidates for this role must be collaborative, imaginative, and tactical, as they will turn creative strategy and big ideas into visual art direction and storytelling to influence the Nike organization. They should have creative leadership experience that will not only unite multiple design teams but also bring in brand, product and marketplace teams together to bring the creative vision into life as intended.
This Senior Director is both an outstanding leader and a collaborative teammate, focused on both creating concepts and building the materials and experiences to bring them to life, alongside their cross-functional teammates. They are experienced creative leaders and can work across mediums including strategy, art direction, moving image, graphic and spatial design. They have a passion for creativity and are committed to staying on top of current and future trends in design, creative culture and technology!
As a candidate for this role, you have passion for creative leadership, collaborative energy, and the ability to assimilate a range of cultural, athlete, and business insights into creative strategy, brand identity, and world-building that activate the Nike organization around your idea. You are truly a multi-faceted creative who loves both the blue sky thinking and crafting all the materials that will bring that idea to life, from creative strategy art direction to graphic design to styling and marketing storytelling.
What you will work on
As Senior Director your job is build Nike worlds. You’ll be working directly with the Concept Excellence Team, Field of play concept teams as well as product design leaders, consumer insights and brand business leaders to see opportunities, build ideas, visual identities and craft how those ideas can connect with athletes around the world. You will be working closely with the innovation and brand teams to shepherd a concept from creation to delivery, building the world around the product(s) and making sure it is delivered to the consumer as planned. Your primary focus will be Brand Concepts which are the highest-level concepts that define the Nike creatively, strategically and financially. Your vision will have a huge impact on the future of the brand.
A given day can consist of big brainstorms, photoshoots, inspiration travel, meeting with agency partners, gathering athlete insights, or pitching your big idea to Nike leadership. Along with your team, you will concept the ideas themselves and deploy your combination of strategy, creative direction, art direction and world building to illustrate those ideas for the organization.
Who you will work with
The Senior Director reports to the VP, Concept, leads Concept Designers and works with the Creative Concept Stylists. In day-to-day, the Senior Director collaborates with Product Innovation, Product Design, Product Merchandising, the GMs of all categories, and Brand Marketing counterparts. As this is a cross-consumer role, you will get to work with all teams in all fields of plays at different times. This is easily one the most social roles at Nike.
What you will bring
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Design or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
At least 12 years professional experience in design, within product or marketing, brand or agency.
A passion for the Athlete*, Sport* and Culture.
Expertise in all aspects of visual design
Experience in creative strategy and narrative.
Experience managing other creatives as direct reports.
Solid portfolio of relevant work, displaying a passion for inspirational storytelling, photo art direction, brand identity, and world building.
Excellent verbal and visual communication skills; adept at presenting and defending creative ideas.
Ability to take calculated risks to lead the brand into new territories
Ability to work on multiple projects at all times
Ability to envision concepts that will define the future of Nike
Ability to communicate this vision to all partners, fuel their energy and realize the vision.
Ability to lead and manage external/internal creative partners.
Ability to manage expectations within different functions, become a central point of contact in concept delivery.
Ability to orchestrate creative collaboration across a network of creative studios.
A positive mentality with proven ability to flex and adapt to changing business needs while maintaining creative quality.
Laser-sharp focus to work quickly and efficiently under pressure.
Strong interpersonal resourcefulness with the ability to cultivate cross-functional partnerships and an open, positive and collaborative environment.
Highly developed curiosity and in-depth understanding of design culture and youth culture, current and past.
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.