Lead Designer, Footwear & Apparel Expression, Nike Basketball Signature Athlete

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

We’re looking for an exceptional Lead Designer, Footwear and Apparel Expression (Color, Graphics, Materials), who can bring experience, creative problem-solving, and a clear point of view to help shape what’s next for Nike Basketball. Inspired by the signature athlete, you’ll help define the visual expression of Nike Basketball across footwear and apparel—bringing together sport, style, and performance in a modern, meaningful way. This role requires broad exploration, thoughtful curation, and a clear creative point of view. The ideal teammate is a visionary designer with exceptional taste, a refined aesthetic perspective, and a deep commitment to craft. They pursue elevated solutions with a sharp eye for detail, proportion, and storytelling, creating products that resonate with consumers on and off the court. With strong cultural awareness and an understanding of emerging trends, they will shape distinctive expressions that raise the bar for creativity, desirability, and aesthetic excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• At least 5-6 years in design or related field.
• Exceptional knowledge of design, art, and fashion, as well as passion for sport and youth culture
• Ability to translate consumer knowledge and insights into creative solutions and narratives.
• Ability to articulate design intent and strategy
• Strong Photoshop, Illustrator skills
• Solid knowledge of manufacturing processes and materials
• Must be able to generate a broad range of concepts and solutions for each project
• Experienced with presentation programs: Keynote, PowerPoint, Acrobat, etc.

Nice To Haves

• Being a hooper is not a requirement but being passionate and curious to learn about basketball and the athlete is.

Responsibilities

• Creating concepts and developments on a range of color, materials, graphic designs for the basketball signature athlete.
• Elevating new techniques and narratives to influence new product expressions.
• Aiming for product excellence by partnering with key stakeholders cross-functionally on the product creations process.
• Helping to bring the vision for the future of Nike Basketball products to life.
• Unleashing creativity with a focus on industry leading design as well as leveraging consumer insights to inform our creative response.
• Contribute and align to shared team culture and behaviors.
• Motivated and hardworking about bringing others along.
• Collaborator with skill in connecting the dots.
• Speaks up with courage for self and the team.
• Open-minded, good listener, receptive to candid feedback and diverse points of view.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior