Lead, Brand Creative Producer, North America

Nike • Beaverton, OR

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Brand Creative Production is the center of excellence for production at Nike. Together, with Brand Creative, we are the voice of Nike’s heart and soul. It's about telling powerful, meaningful stories across the entire brand ecosystem, leveraging all existing and new platforms to inspire, enable and engage athletes, while driving brand distinction and business impact. NA Brand Creative Production is a team of enterprise thinkers who are experts in bringing ideas to life. You will work to up-level the team’s deep industry expertise by learning, inspiring and sharing knowledge with the collective Brand Creative team. This position is based at our amazing worldwide headquarters location in Beaverton, OR. The work schedule is a “4/1 Hybrid” schedule – Mondays-Thursdays in the office; Fridays based either at the office or at your home office location.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 7+ years of directly relevant work experience in content production and creative project management.
• Strong interest in staying up to date with current and future trends and innovations.
• Deep knowledge of content and creative production best practices with proven ability to work with internal and external creatives, commissioning and managing multiple creative partners ranging from world-renowned agencies to up-and-coming artists and creators to deliver premium and inspirational stories and experiences.
• Potential for enterprise thinking across multiple projects/processes.
• Forward-thinker with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Expert-level contract negotiation and vendor management with interest in cultivating a broad network of external partners.
• Expert-level ability to draft SOWs and reconcile complex production budgets; proven ability to prioritize work appropriately, meet deadlines, with multiple projects at one time.
• Ability to build working relationships with core and cross-functional teams; ability to represent brand creative ideas in meetings with Leadership and be able to back the work with sound reasoning.
• Proficiency in Airtable, Figma a plus.

Nice To Haves

• A high-impact leader with a wealth of production experience across various mediums, including (but not exclusive to) digital, social, out of home, broadcast.
• A passionate, exceptionally organized, and solutions-oriented producer.
• A creative thinker with outstanding communication skills that thrives under pressure, embracing change and knowing when and where to be flexible.
• Someone with hard and soft skills to navigate your projects from initial brief intake and creative development through pre- and post-production.
• Ability to collaborate tightly with other production functions and with counterparts across many different teams to help deliver creative in accordance with our Brand Standards.
• A willingness to mentor junior team members and elevate the craft of production across the NA team.

Responsibilities

• Drive world-class productions end-to-end for North America Brand Creative.
• Manage live-action production, commission illustrators or animators, or work with architects to build spaces.
• Digest, edit and circulate the most important information clearly and effectively to stakeholders.
• Remain clear on priorities and empower your team, regardless of project complexity.
• Share knowledge and advise others, proactively helping the team develop skills and collective creative output.
• Speak up and contribute solutions when changes occur or obstacles appear.
• Act as a lead mentor for Senior Producers and Specialists, providing guidance on best practices and production excellence.

Benefits

• Accommodations to complete the interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees