Senior Director, Running Womens Apparel Product Design & Promo

Nike, Inc.•Beaverton, OR

73d

About The Position

This role will directly report into the VP, Creative Director Running, while regularly partnering with cross functional Apparel product leadership teams across Create and Expression, Apparel Design Excellence, Innovation, Concepts, Brand Design and key downstream business partners to lead driving a culture of creativity that aligns to the broader Nike Running creative direction. We're looking for an outstanding Sr Design Director, Running Women's Apparel Product Design - to combine their Apparel design experience, problem solving abilities, team leadership, relationship building, management skills, critical thinking, and creativity to help lead the future of the Running Apparel industry. The ideal candidate needs to be a highly creative team leader, setting aspirational Running apparel product design directions to inspire and lead the team of design talents at Nike Running. Recognize and build high quality Women's Apparel product designs and lead a multi-disciplinary design teams including concepts, product, 3D, material, color and graphic designers. This person will be passionate about elevating all types of running experience by meeting the needs of both the elite and everyday runners through the impact of "Only-Nike" style & performance experience, culturally connected influences and memorable narratives. As a creative leader, you will motivate the team, celebrate wins, and cultivate a climate that encourages an open collaborative creativity through equity, inclusion and diversity. If this is you, you will establish and nurture the creative vision & design directions for Nike Running, Women's Apparel product creations and PROMO across Racing and Road. You will champion a culturally connected, inspiring creative vision with emphasis on elevating the apparel product designs showcasing the forward thinking innovation, and performance experience that will set the new pace within the Running market to set the trend and lead the industry. You will build, hold, and maintain the best standard of practice and design excellence, ensuring the highest standard of quality, consistency, accuracy while pushing the boundaries of creativity! Seasonally, you will partner closely with Running Expression, Sr Design Director to evaluate consumer trends, macro global insights and marketplace analysis to lead the team in delivering innovative & craft obsessed designs through both physical and digital creative methods to cross pollinate creative team synergy across product, color, materials, and graphics. You'll be deeply involved in developing design strategies and ensuring excellence through advanced concepts. Additionally, you'll manage presentations and communicate design visions to a variety of audiences, ensuring that all projects meet our high standards and timelines. You will lead category design resources, processes and relationships to ensure project standards and timelines are met. You will also build and run your own seasonal/annual project workload and will be asked at times to extend outside of the primary activity of Running to support the larger Nike Design community. In addition, you'll work in conjunction with design leadership to develop design and optimally handle the annual goal-setting and evaluation process of your team.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Apparel Design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
15+ years of relevant work experience in apparel design
In depth experience in the Apparel field, with a focus on performance
Enterprise leadership and experience leading creative teams and managing designers
Proven ability leading large teams with varied strengths with a team first approach crafting a strong team culture and connectivity
Leads as a strategic creative partner to cross-category partners
Ability to think strategically about product relevance, product positioning, timing, and collections
Strong knowledge of fashion, design, and Lifestyle trends
Ability to build seasonal concepts, and provide the team with both short and long-term vision

Responsibilities

Establish and nurture the creative vision & design directions for Nike Running, Women's Apparel product creations and PROMO across Racing and Road.
Champion a culturally connected, inspiring creative vision with emphasis on elevating the apparel product designs showcasing the forward thinking innovation, and performance experience that will set the new pace within the Running market to set the trend and lead the industry.
Build, hold, and maintain the best standard of practice and design excellence, ensuring the highest standard of quality, consistency, accuracy while pushing the boundaries of creativity!
Partner closely with Running Expression, Sr Design Director to evaluate consumer trends, macro global insights and marketplace analysis to lead the team in delivering innovative & craft obsessed designs through both physical and digital creative methods to cross pollinate creative team synergy across product, color, materials, and graphics.
Develop design strategies and ensuring excellence through advanced concepts.
Manage presentations and communicate design visions to a variety of audiences, ensuring that all projects meet our high standards and timelines.
Lead category design resources, processes and relationships to ensure project standards and timelines are met.
Build and run your own seasonal/annual project workload and will be asked at times to extend outside of the primary activity of Running to support the larger Nike Design community.
Work in conjunction with design leadership to develop design and optimally handle the annual goal-setting and evaluation process of your team.

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