Director Advanced Athlete Apparel Concepts Innovation

WHO YOULL WORK WITH

You will work closely with the Advanced Athlete Concepts team that spans Apparel Footwear Sustainability and the Kitchen/Explore team as well as integrate into the Advanced Innovation Apparel leadership team. You will work crossfunctionally with design development testing Nike Sports Research Lab materials 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 and Design Concepts teams inline business partners across Fields of Play as well as other downstream functions when appropriate.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a seasoned concept creation leader at the Director level to join the Advanced Athlete Concept team leading Apparel. 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 experience leading a creative team and an interest in mentorship and collaboration.

What you bring:

Proven Experience:

8 years of experience in apparel product creation creative strategy humancentered research innovation or a designrelated field and identification of future areas of opportunity
Bachelors degree 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
Experience leading creative product or research teams
Ability to navigate complex matrixed environments champion ideas and opportunity across stakeholder levels
Experience developing consumercentric narratives

Approach & Behaviors

A global innovative mindset entrepreneurial spirit inspires others to action through a passion for creation without a roadmap
Deep understanding of how to investigate the future conduct ethnographic research synthesize opportunity areas and galvanize a creative team
Energy giver and team player with a desire to make a difference
Passion for diversity equity and inclusion with a proactive attitude
Influential and able to collaborate across a matrix organization
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 will lead self and teamreflection to capture and apply learnings
Wellinformed and stays connected to sport culture on the international stage

Skills

A seasoned leader with ability to develop high performing teams and manage with courage
Ability to build a portfolio of focused future opportunities whilst driving existing projects and programs
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 and across a portfolio of complex programs
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
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

20 travel

WHAT YOULL WORK ON

In this role you will lead the team charged with investigation creation and storytelling for industrydefining apparel concepts. You will work collaboratively with team of creative thinkers to define a vision landscape for futureoriented apparel concepts. You will build an apparel concepts strategy and portfolio that must ladder up to the greater Advanced Athlete Concepts mission and vision alongside our larger Advanced Innovation 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 be responsible for setting the vision strategy and team culture for Advanced Athlete Concepts Apparel and directing a portfolio of futurefacing product concepts.

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.