Product Design and Development - Art Director 4
About The Position
The Art Director will support and develop consumer-led retail concepts and the evolution of the retail business. This strategic, collaborative creative leader develops impactful, scalable design solutions for immersive retail environments and experiences that reflect the organization’s design ethos and improve the consumer retail experience. The role drives design excellence and collaboration across multiple projects while delivering holistic creative work aligned with a long-term strategy. It calls for innovative use of emerging technology to build engaging spaces and consumer interactions, along with the ability to work across environmental graphic design, fixtures, materials, and digital design. The Art Director will ideate and illustrate concepts and remain hands-on through project completion, leading work from connection through delivery. Under the direction of a Senior Director for Story Design, this position leads projects to realize original retail displays and digital solutions, provides design direction and leadership development to junior designers, and collaborates with internal and external teams to meet creative intent, timelines, and budgets. The role creates, refines, and evolves non-seasonal retail storytelling across the full store portfolio; establishes creative direction and implementation standards; and manages a team in developing approaches that address consumer, brand, and business-partner needs. The Art Director communicates and presents concepts, creates presentation materials that clearly convey design intent, and produces project production files when required. The assignment is listed as a 3+ month assignment in Beaverton, Oregon, and is onsite. A portfolio is required for team review.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of brand design experience demonstrating creative sophistication in concepts and design/visual communications.
- At least 3 years of management experience.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in graphic design, architecture, interior design, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience; the candidate profile notes a bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including meeting facilitation and presentations.
- Ability to communicate complex and/or sensitive topics and concepts effectively to senior creative teams.
- Ability to sketch design ideas and visually communicate concept development through ideation.
- Ability to adapt to changing business needs while maintaining creative quality.
- Proficiency with Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Keynote.
- Retail story design/storytelling experience.
- Portfolio required for team review.
Nice To Haves
- Retail industry experience, including retail environments, concepts, and programs.
- International experience.
- Experience with After Effects, Premiere, Miro, Figma, SketchUp, or Unreal Engine.
- Previous Nike or industry experience.
Responsibilities
- Support and develop consumer-led retail concepts and the evolution of the retail business.
- Develop impactful, scalable design solutions for immersive retail environments and experiences.
- Drive design excellence and collaboration across multiple projects, delivering holistic creative work aligned with long-term strategy.
- Use emerging technology to create engaging spaces and consumer interactions.
- Work across environmental graphic design, fixtures, materials, and digital design; ideate, illustrate, and help deliver projects hands-on.
- Lead projects from connection through delivery under the direction of the Senior Director for Story Design.
- Lead projects to realize original retail displays and digital solutions.
- Provide design direction and leadership development to junior-level designers.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to meet creative intent, timelines, and budgets.
- Create, refine, and evolve non-seasonal retail storytelling across the full store portfolio.
- Develop creative direction for design development and implementation standards for consistent execution.
- Manage a team in developing project approaches that consider consumer, brand, and business-partner needs.
- Communicate and present design concepts, create presentation materials that convey design intent, and produce production files when required.
