Senior Digital Designer, Design Systems

Nike • Beaverton, OR

33d

About The Position

The Senior Digital Designer will help drive decision-making, inform strategic thinking, and execute detailed design for Nike’s Podium Design System. The role focuses on creating and developing flexible, reusable UI that supports Nike’s digital products and enables elevated brand experiences for external and internal users. The designer will work independently across several projects while collaborating with design-system partners and product teams that use and implement Podium.

The position covers large-scope initiatives requiring strategic thinking and strong systems craftsmanship. Work includes Podium components, tokens, guidance, AI tooling, and integrations into product domains, as well as polished digital experiences that help businesses choose, plan, order, and sell Nike products. The designer will shape work from initial concepts through final delivery, support user research and testing, communicate design intent, and contribute to Nike’s design culture. The role reports to the Senior Design Manager of the Podium Team.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of relevant end-to-end digital product design experience, including visual and UX design.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in design or a related field, such as UX/UI design or human-computer interaction; suitable combinations of education, experience, and training are also accepted.
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, and execution.
• Ability to deliver high-quality end-to-end design solutions that meet Nike’s quality standards.
• Strong UX/UI/IA design expertise and the ability to think creatively and systematically.
• Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based design process.
• Strong collaboration skills with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers, and marketers.
• Sound design process and strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with consumer research and data.
• Experience launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization.
• Ability to work independently across multiple projects and communicate the thinking behind design work.
• Passion for the Nike brand, sports, and creating high-quality work.
• Fascination with innovation and technology and a solid understanding of digital tools and trends.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with design systems, including tokens, components, and Figma-to-code parity.
• AI fluency, including Cursor or agents and structured content for machine readability; familiarity with Podium AGENTS.md or MCP direction.
• Experience partnering horizontally across Podium and with design-system consumers.
• Experience designing enterprise or high-density internal tooling UIs.
• Experience reconciling subsystem libraries with a core design system.
• Experience authoring documentation sites, beyond Figma-only delivery.
• Motion design experience.
• Lightweight engineering familiarity, including React/TypeScript components, CSS custom properties, and npm publishing patterns.

Responsibilities

• Help drive decision-making, inform strategic thinking, and execute detailed design for the Podium Design System.
• Design Podium components, tokens, guidance, AI tooling, and integrations into product domains.
• Drive design execution and strategic thinking across large-scope project tracks.
• Create polished visual comps, wireframes, flows, and prototypes that represent the Nike brand and product experience.
• Own multiple product features for medium- to large-scale projects.
• Take proactive ownership of ambiguous project areas and design objectives.
• Iterate and refine design concepts from initial briefing through final delivery.
• Collaborate with producers, product managers, design operations, engineers, researchers, fellow designers, and product-team partners.
• Develop solutions using participatory and iterative techniques, including user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, brainstorms, and workshops.
• Explore fresh approaches to design problems and inspire new ways of thinking.
• Mentor and provide feedback to designers and interns.
• Promote the Nike brand and support initiatives that strengthen Nike’s internal design culture.
• Communicate design intentions effectively and establish the importance of ideas.
• Create a holistic look and feel across all parts of large projects.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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