Senior Creative Director, Tennis

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

In this position, you will report directly to the VP Creative Director of Sport and manage a team focused on footwear & apparel, product, graphic, color, and material design. You'll work closely with colleagues in design, product management, global merchandising, brand marketing, and development across various business areas to maintain consistency and alignment. Additionally, you'll collaborate with the wider sport design teams to support a unified strategic direction. We are seeking a Senior Creative Director to shape, inspire, and guide the creative vision and teams through world-building concepts, Nike-exclusive products, and athlete-focused key looks, ensuring a comprehensive approach from start to finish. In this role, you will oversee a small, agile team and be responsible for setting the design direction and implementing initiatives that will shape the future of design for Nike Tennis. This role requires agility, managing ambiguity, a prioritization mindset, and the ability to connect across multiple functions including brand, merchandising, geos and product creation teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training
• 10+ years of professional creative experience in footwear, apparel, or product creation.
• Prior senior design leadership experience in design, brand, innovation, and/or leading a creative team at scale.
• Expertise in setting and driving comprehensive design strategy and creative direction at scale.
• Experience working across multiple initiatives and objectives across the enterprise.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary design teams and influence cross-functional partners effectively.
• Exceptional storytelling, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to operate at visionary, strategical and tactical levels.
• Strong design intuition combined with business acumen and strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Build long term vision and seasonal creative direction.
• Develop a 3-5 year strategy in collaboration with the GM, while partnering alongside the Brand Director and Product Directors.
• Build and land the design innovation roadmap for Tennis in partnership with NXT design leaders.
• Initiate design explorations with teams to build seasonal direction.
• Create seasonal creative direction including seasonal concept(s), product creative direction, colors, graphics and materials direction in collaboration with the Tennis design leadership team and leveraging Brand creative direction from Design Leadership.
• Build design foundations for Nike Tennis: elevate and hold brand standards on products, design best practices and ground in fundamentals for Tennis across footwear & apparel (science) and blend with end-in-mind expertise (athlete and retail).
• Create an engaging & high-performing design environment: build best-in-class environment for designers and build high performing teams.
• From creative direction to products in store: ensure end to end design approach through concept, products, head to toe looks and cohesive Tennis seasonal collections (new styles + carry-overs).

What This Job Offers

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