Principal Product Developer, Global Football Footwear

WHO YOULL WORK WITH

As a member of the Global Football Footwear Development team you will inform drive and facilitate decisions throughout the product creation process to meet or exceed the product brief and design vision prioritizing athlete performance and product excellence. You will be an active thought partner with Product Management Design Product Testing Engineering Materials and overseas Product Creation Teams to develop processes and tools that push boundaries and create solutions that support the creation of Global Footballs worldclass footwear products.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a Principal Footwear Product Developer to be an integral part of our Global Footwear Product Development Team and help drive product excellence for the Global Football consumer! As a Principal Footwear Product Developer this person will drive project and process direction within the project team to create highly technical performance product. The ideal candidate needs to have demonstrated strong project management collaboration and problemsolving skills in a product development environment. In addition we are looking for people that are selfstarters quick learners clear communicators great teammates and exhibit strong leadership skills. As a member of the Global Football Development team this person will effectively build relationships lead and interact with teams across Nike Footwear Product Creation and with teams comprising of diverse cultures across various countries.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education experience or training

• A minimum of 8 years directly relevant work experience

• Experience in Marketing Business Industrial Design Engineering Physical Sciences or a combination of relevant education experience and training

• Have a solid understanding of the tools supporting and tactically driving the footwear product creation process best using subject matter experts in footwear lasts upper patterns materials chemistry bottom tooling injection and plates costing test methodologies and manufacturing.

• Demonstrated critical experiences in Adopting and Driving Innovation through the Product Creation Process.

• Outstanding Highprofile communication and influencing skills with the ability to champion sophisticated projects both crossfunctionally and vertically with the organization including senior leaders.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a keen awareness of the audience knowing when to go deep into the details when warranted and when to simplify the sophisticated.

• A highly organized and resilient approach a high tolerance for ambiguity with an outstanding ability to seamlessly balance constantly evolving priorities.

• A tried leadership Identity that nurtures partnership instils trust encourages and empowers teammates/peers to ultimately deliver on product excellence.

• Strong understanding of the creation process including production planning forecasting and scheduling to deliver product quality in a timely efficient and effective way.

• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time

WHAT YOULL WORK ON

As a Principal Footwear Product Developer for Global Football Footwear you will work on new innovation and creation of highly technical performance product across Mens Womens and Kids. You will drive product and process excellence within a collaborative team environment for your assigned projects as well as converting a project brief and 2D design tech pack into a physical footwear sample that meets the needs of the respective athlete consumer and business.

Were looking for you to apply your expert level knowledge and experience to improve product excellence by identifying and addressing key issues and challenges in construction/manufacturing and engage in all phases of the product process to ensure projects are managed according to critical dates and completed on time while meeting design intent performance goals costing/profitability sustainability targets and product integrity requirements.

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.