Senior Designer, Apparel In-Line Materials Design

Nike•Beaverton, OR

About The Position

NIKE, Inc. designs the future. At NIKE, Inc. designers chase their curiosities and build what’s next, shaping the culture and advancing human potential. The Central Design teams include artists, inventors and specialists, all with different focuses, including experts in color, sustainability and materials, as well as apparel and footwear product designers. Nike designers look to the future, aggressively pursuing ideas and forms that elevate the athlete experience, raise the bar for modern style and reduce environmental impact. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR We’re looking for an Inline Apparel Material Designer to combine their experience, problem solving abilities, and creativity to help create the future of NIKE product. On the Central Apparel Material Design team, you will contribute to NIKE’s long term strategic direction for Inline Apparel Material expression, innovation and design. You will also support & execute the material design of the Global Creative Strategy for Nike Apparel through palettes and narratives, and support the creation of best in class tools (digital and physical). The ideal candidate is a highly creative problem solver, who doesn’t settle for anything less than the best design and material solutions. You are eager to challenge the status quo, embrace the unknown and push boundaries in order to create industry-leading solutions that meet the needs of each athlete. You are motivated to elevate our consumer’s experience by creating new materials and palettes that are innovative, distinct, benefit-driven and athlete-relevant for a range of products. You are passionate about ensuring the emotional connection of our product for the consumer through the use of narrative and storytelling. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON If this is you, you will be working on a range of technical and complex projects using the latest techniques to design concepts and deliver materials that keep NIKE on the vanguard. You will also help to curate, elevate and modernize NIKE’s existing material palettes. Your work will range from trend and market research, insights gathering, concepting and ideation, building physical and digital assets to bring your design and collaboration to life, understand and learn various material types and methods of make, cross-functional communication and collaboration, all the way through to tech pack creation. In this role, you will communicate with a wide range of experts across NIKE, from manufacturing partners, to operations, and at times directly with athletes; the daily responsibilities of this role are wide ranging, challenging, and rewarding. WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH You will closely collaborate with the Apparel Material Design team, Product Design teams, Sustainability Team and Material Developers to bring a material design point of view to briefed projects as well as un-briefed concepts. You will partner with Development, Color Design, Graphic Design, Digital Design and Marketing teams in bringing to life key material concepts and scalable innovation – all the way to our consumer.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Textile, Material, Apparel design, or other relevant design field. Will accept any suitable combination of education and experience, and training.
At least 2-3 years of relevant design experience exemplifying ability to push material design, and/or relevant experience in Design or Design School.
Digital design acumen (design-based software needed: Creative Suite)
Understand and learn product relevant materials solutions; performance, hand-feel, proprioceptive + intuitive applications.
Proficient design skills, brief to presentation to manufacturing
Actively seeks out and creates more sustainable materials
Ability to create concepts and explore new Materials innovations and technologies and ideas.
Experience building inspiration/concept presentations, and mood boards for seasonal concepts and direction.
Experience building 3D samples and creating mockup samples by hand.
Ability to create and edit files using Adobe programs including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign