Senior Digital Designer, Design Systems

Nike•Beaverton, OR

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Digital Designer for the Nike Podium Design System team. Our mission is to Co-create the design system that translates Nike’s magic into the world’s most loved digital experiences. We do this by designing and developing highly flexible reusable UI that can be used across Nike’s portfolio of digital products and accelerate team’s abilities to create elevated brand experiences for external and internal users. We believe a design system is never done and pour our creativity into inspiring and empowering digital innovation at Nike. On the Nike Podium Design Systems team, you will be working side by side with 2 Lead Designers and a Lead Engineer in a fluid collaborative manner. We hustle, we sweat the details and we constantly collaborate in and outside our team. Podium is a horizontal team that works across Nike Digital Product Design, has a strong focus on serving as a catalyst and is focused on helping drive Nike digital to move at the speed of sport. You will be working horizontally with product team partners who are using and implementing Podium. With these partners you will collaborate, support and user test. The role will report directly to the Senior Design Manager of the Podium Team. You're a critical team member helping drive decision making, inform strategic thinking and executing detailed design for the Podium Design System. You confidently apply your knowledge and craft, working independently on several projects at a time. You seek out opportunities to round out your skills and always present the thinking behind your work. You bring a wide-range of concepts to the table and are constantly pushing your team’s view of what’s possible.

Requirements

6+ years of relevant experience with end-to-end digital product design with proven experience in visual and UX
A bachelor’s degree or higher in design or related field (UX/UI design, human-computer interaction, etc.). Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design and execution
Ability to deliver high-quality, end-to-end design solutions that uphold Nike's quality standards
Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise
Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based design process
Strong collaborator with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers and marketers
Solid design process and strong attention to detail
Experience working with consumer research and data
Design systems experience: Tokens, components, Figma ↔ code parity
AI fluency: Cursor/agents, structured content for machine readability (Podium AGENTS.md / MCP direction)
Horizontal partnership: Works across Podium and with design-system consumers
Enterprise / high-density internal tooling UIs
Reconciling sub-system libraries with a core design system
Documentation site authoring, not Figma-only delivery
Motion design
Lightweight engineering familiarity: React/TypeScript components, CSS custom properties, npm publish patterns
Passion for the Nike brand, sports and for creating high-quality work
A fascination with innovation and technology and a solid understanding of digital tools and trends

Nice To Haves

Experience launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization

Responsibilities

Co-create the design system that translates Nike’s magic into the world’s most loved digital experiences.
Design and develop highly flexible reusable UI that can be used across Nike’s portfolio of digital products and accelerate team’s abilities to create elevated brand experiences for external and internal users.
Drive decision making, inform strategic thinking and execute detailed design for the Podium Design System.
Work independently on several projects at a time.
Seek out opportunities to round out your skills and always present the thinking behind your work.
Bring a wide-range of concepts to the table and are constantly pushing your team’s view of what’s possible.
Work on large scope initiatives that require a blend of strategic thinking and superb systems craftsmanship.
Deliver digital experiences that make Nike's products the most inspiring and effortless for businesses to choose, plan, order and sell.
Work on Podium Design System components, Tokens, Guidance, AI tooling and integrations into product domains.
Drive design execution across large scope project tracks.
Design incredibly polished work that represents the Nike brand and product experience through visual comps, wireframes, flows and prototypes.
Own multiple product features for medium to large projects.
Take proactive ownership at edges of projects where requirements and design objectives can be more ambiguous.
Rapidly iterate and refine design concepts from initial briefing through final delivery.
Work closely and collaboratively with a cross-functional team of producers, product managers, design operations, engineers, researchers and fellow designers.
Develop design solutions using participatory and iterative techniques including user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, and design thinking brainstorms and workshops.
Inspire new ways of thinking and explore the unknown using fresh and unique approaches to design problems.
Mentor and provide helpful feedback to fellow designers and interns to uplevel their craft and skills.
Evangelize the Nike brand and drive initiatives that strengthen Nike's design culture internally.
Effectively communicate design intentions and establish the gravity around ideas.
Produce a holistic look and feel between all pieces of a large project.
Launch software at scale in a fast-paced product organization.

Benefits

Accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.

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