Senior Principal Advanced Athlete Footwear Concepts Innovation
Senior Principal Advanced Athlete Footwear Concepts Innovation
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Job Description
NXT Advanced Athlete Concepts explores the future edges of sport through radical imagination and barrier breaking innovation. This team exists to cultivate extraordinary concepts that serve athletes by unlocking human potential for all athletes*.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will work closely with the Advanced Athlete Concepts team that spans footwear across various Fields of Play Apparel and the Kitchen/Explore team. You will work crossfunctionally with design development testing Nike Sports Research Lab engineering and capabilities teams. You will need to be knowledgeable and influential across other groups/teams within Nike including but not limited to Cultural & Societal Insights Brand Concepts inline business partners in the global football category as well as other downstream functions when appropriate.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a seasoned concept creation expert at the Senior Principal Level to join the Advanced Athlete Concept team focused on global football footwear. They must be collaborative comfortable to execute and lead in an ambiguous environment and must always be looking for opportunities that define what could be versus what is. This role requires a passion for storytelling with a need to be able to speak to a variety of audiences. They must have an interest in team collaboration and mentorship.
What you bring:
Proven Experience
- 8 years of experience in in footwear product creation humancentered research design or a innovationrelated field
- Bachelors degree or higher or equivalent combination of education experience or training.
- Excellent portfolio of accomplishments for creating and delivering earlystage briefs or concepts
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills with the ability to present and communicate to senior highprofile leaders
- History of Design or project line management expertise preferred
- Management experience preferred
Approach & Behaviors
- A global innovative mindset entrepreneurial spirit inspires others to action through a passion for creation without a roadmap
- Energy giver and team player with a desire to make a difference
- Deep passion for diversity equity and inclusion with a proactive attitude
- Influential and able to collaborate across a matrix organization
- Strong team player and successful collaborator who embraces differences values perspectives and acts with courage
- Resilient agile and optimistic; embraces ambiguity and the fluid nature of early innovation and keep teammates and projects moving
- Understands that failure is part of the creative innovation process and as much will lead self and team reflection to capture and apply learnings
- Well informed and stays connected to sport & culture on the international stage
Skills
- Ability to lead teammates by example raising the bar for the collective team
- Creatively agile and adept in innovative thinking vision and problem solving
- Ability to build a vision and uphold creative and strategic direction endtoend to ensure that vision carries through project transitions
- A networker who is adept at building passionate teams attracting and seeking talent to get after the work
- A listener and synthesizer who can make the complex simple and find clarity in ambiguity
- Thinks holistically identifying opportunities for disruptive enterprise solutions
- Ability to build a portfolio of focused future opportunity whilst driving existing projects and programs
- A seasoned leader with ability to selfmanage
- Can partner with internal and external parties (consumer insights agencies athlete science/sports research design testing development engineering manufacturing)
- Advanced project management skills proactively partnering to facilitate effective meetings and manage key dates and deliverables with project stakeholders
- Expertlevel narrative development and communication skills including the ability to prepare and deliver project presentations to senior leadership
Other
- Travel up to 20 domestically and internationally
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
In this role you will lead the investigation creation and storytelling for industrydefining concepts focused on global football footwear. You will work collaboratively with a team of creative thinkers to evolve a vision and landscape for Football concepts. You will build strategy for the future of Football that must ladder up to the greater Advanced Athlete Concepts mission and vision.
You will deliver concept pitches world class briefs and inspiring presentations that peak interest and excitement from the brand and inline business partners. Youll integrate diversity equity and inclusion into your areas of investigation. Youll contribute to strategically placing programs on a future focused footwear Youll be the knowledgeable expert in the global football industry and footwear marketplace as a whole.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for inperson interviews closed captioning and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover as you navigate our application process that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
