Senior Creative Director, Energy, Global Jordan

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

The Senior Creative Director of Jordan Energy shapes and guides the creative vision, collaborative projects, and teams through world-building concepts, Jordan-exclusive products, and collaborator-focused key looks. The role oversees a small, agile team and sets design direction and initiatives that shape the future of Jordan Energy design.

The position manages a team focused on footwear and apparel, product, graphic, color, and material design. It works across design, external partners, product management, global merchandising, brand marketing, and development, and collaborates with wider Jordan Design teams to maintain alignment and support a unified strategic direction. The role requires agility, comfort with ambiguity, prioritization, and the ability to connect across brand, merchandising, geographies, collaborators, and product creation teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in design or a related field; a suitable combination of education, experience, and training will also be accepted.
• 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 setting and driving comprehensive design strategy and creative direction at scale.
• Experience working across multiple enterprise initiatives and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary design teams and effectively influence cross-functional partners.
• Exceptional storytelling, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to operate at visionary, strategic, and tactical levels.
• Strong design intuition, business acumen, and strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Build long-term vision and seasonal creative direction.
• Develop strategy in collaboration with the GM, partnering with the Brand Director and Product Directors.
• Initiate design explorations with teams to establish seasonal direction.
• Create seasonal creative direction, including seasonal concepts and direction for product, colors, graphics, and materials, in collaboration with Jordan design leadership and using brand creative direction from Design Leadership.
• Establish design foundations for Jordan Energy, elevate and uphold product brand standards and design best practices, and apply consumer and retail expertise across footwear and apparel.
• Create an engaging, high-performing design environment and build high-performing teams.
• Ensure an end-to-end design approach from creative direction through products in store, including concepts, products, head-to-toe looks, and cohesive Jordan Energy in-house seasonal collections with new styles and carry-overs.
• Manage a team focused on footwear and apparel, product, graphic, color, and material design.
• Collaborate with colleagues and partners across design, product management, global merchandising, brand marketing, development, and wider Jordan Design teams to maintain consistency, alignment, and unified strategic direction.

What This Job Offers

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