Lead, Digital Product Designer, Marketplace Partners

Nike • Beaverton, OR

17h

About The Position

The Lead, Digital Product Designer will join Nike’s Marketplace Partners Digital Product Design team, which creates commerce experiences for Nike’s network of multi-brand retail partners. The team works to make it easy and inspiring for partners to choose, plan, order, and sell Nike products. The designer will build expertise in partner and account executive workflows and incorporate customer and competitor insights throughout the design process.

Working closely with product, engineering, program, content strategy, the Podium design system team, Sales, Geographies, and other business partners, this role will lead complex design initiatives and shape digital experiences that support growth and create value for Nike and its customers. The designer will own product spaces or contribute to large, cross-team projects; create and refine concepts from initial brief through delivery; and design polished experiences, including AI-assisted and agentic products. The role also includes mentoring designers and interns and helping strengthen Nike’s internal design culture.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience in end-to-end digital product design, including visual design, UX/UI, and prototyping.
• Bachelor’s degree in design or a related field; suitable combinations of education, experience, and training will be accepted.
• Proven experience leading design for complex B2B, e-commerce, enterprise, or workflow-heavy products.
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, data, experimentation, and execution, with expertise in one or more areas.
• Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise.
• Demonstrated user-centric, insights-based design process.
• Proven ability to collaborate with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers, and business operations.
• Strong design process and ability to contribute new processes or enhancements to cross-functional teams.
• Experience working with user research and data.
• Impeccable attention to detail.
• Exceptional time management, including providing accurate estimates and often helping the team deliver early.
• Ability to influence or create design patterns or standards adopted by other teams.
• High proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Cursor and Figma.
• Cross-platform design experience across web, mobile web, and email.
• Ability to communicate a vision in a way others can relate to and support.
• Ability to establish a holistic look and feel across all elements of a large project.
• Experience launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization.
• Passion for the Nike brand and sport, and for creating high-quality work.
• Interest in innovation and technology and a solid understanding of digital tools and trends.
• Proven ability to define workflows for wholesale, marketplace, sales enablement, order management, or planning tools.
• Fluency in designing AI-assisted and agentic experiences, from concept through shipped product.
• Comfort extending and evolving shared systems alongside a design system team.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing best-in-class commerce experiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of partner and account executive needs and workflows, and translate them into differentiated experience concepts.
• Rapidly visualize, prototype, and explore multiple product design directions in response to hypotheses, considering business and technical impacts.
• Create polished Nike-branded experiences through wireframes, flows, visual comps, and prototypes.
• Design AI-assisted and agentic experiences and contribute to the design system.
• Own an entire product space or work on large projects involving broad or undefined features.
• Innovate and drive execution on cross-team products or a domain.
• Iterate and refine design concepts from initial briefing through final delivery.
• Facilitate and lead brainstorms and workshops.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, program, content strategy, the Podium design system team, fellow designers, and cross-functional business partners.
• Encourage new ways of thinking and explore unfamiliar design problems with fresh approaches.
• Mentor designers and interns and provide helpful feedback to develop their craft and skills.
• Promote the Nike brand and drive initiatives that strengthen Nike’s internal design culture.

Benefits

• Interview accommodations are available, including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single-location in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.

What This Job Offers

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