Senior Designer, Field Sports Footwear Graphic Design

Nike • Beaverton, OR

4d

About The Position

As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will help drive footwear collections that bring together sport, storytelling, and innovation. You will execute a collaborative vision informed by Nike and athlete insights across American Football, Baseball, and Cricket. The work involves translating authentic insights into a visual center of graphics, typography, prints on footwear shell patterns, and logos through modern executions designed to stand out on major stages. A strong understanding of culture and trends is essential.

You will contribute to the creative vision, lead team meetings, communicate critical information, ensure design progress and deadlines, and present design concepts and seasonal initiatives to internal and external audiences while maintaining Nike’s best interests. You will collaborate with athletes and teams and partner with material, color, and footwear design, as well as cross-functional teammates and external partners.

The role calls for a motivated, collaborative designer who can conceptualize, curate, and create performance product stories for athletes and fans across game time, practice, and lifestyle. You will contribute across multiple sports, develop perspectives and narratives from athlete and market insights, and manage multiple projects effectively.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design or a related field, or a suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in Graphic Design, Color Design, or Product Design.
• Submit a creative design portfolio showcasing varied projects and a strong methodology for research, inspiration, design development, problem solving, process, and final execution.
• Strong sketching, illustration, typography, brand identity, and color theory skills.
• Proficiency in digital design software, including a high degree of proficiency in Adobe Illustrator.
• Deep understanding of make and manufacturing processes.
• Strong connection to sports and current and emerging cultural design trends.
• Knowledge of apparel creation, including ideation, development, specification, and final design execution that balances innovation, performance, and style.
• Ability to inspire and drive creative direction through production execution.
• Collaborative spirit and flexibility to manage multiple projects and work efficiently with internal and external partners and cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Adobe InDesign, Keynote, and Adobe Photoshop.
• Openness to working in a new digital space.

Responsibilities

• Drive and contribute to footwear collections across American Football, Baseball, and Cricket, combining sport, storytelling, and innovation.
• Translate athlete and market insights into graphics, typography, prints on footwear shell patterns, and logos.
• Contribute to the creative vision and lead team meetings.
• Communicate critical information, track design progress, and help ensure deadlines are met.
• Present design concepts and seasonal initiatives to internal and external audiences while maintaining Nike’s best interests.
• Conceptualize, curate, and create performance product stories for athletes and fans across game time, practice, and lifestyle.
• Collaborate with athletes, teams, material, color, and footwear design partners, cross-functional teammates, and external collaborators.
• Inspire and drive creative direction through production execution.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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