Director, ICON Production

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WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a passionate and creatively led content production expert with the ability to drive creative excellence and operational scale across diverse production models. You are deeply experienced in building and leading world-class production ecosystems that span ecommerce creative campaign development casting and large-scale seasonal content needs. Your expertise extends from highly efficient studio production models to complex multi-million-dollar integrated campaigns across mediums and platforms.

You bring a strategic lens to creative productionbalancing creativity efficiency and scalabilitywhile staying at the forefront of evolving industry practices and technologies. You have a proven ability to discern when and how to leverage in-house direct production capabilities versus external partnerships to maximize both creative output and operational efficiency. You have successfully led in-house casting functions while also cultivating an expansive and global network of agencies vendors and creative collaborators.

You are a seasoned leaderable to navigate ambiguity simplify complexity and mobilize teams through clarity and inspiration. You are an influential cross-functional partner trusted advisor to creative leaders and a driver of alignment across business-critical functions. You are a people-first leader who fosters resilient inclusive and high-performing teams while championing a culture of collaboration accountability and work-life balance.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

Reporting directly to the Global Sr. Director of Icon Studios and serving as a core member of the Icon Studio Leadership Team you will be accountable for setting and executing the production vision across Nikes Icon Studio network. You will oversee all facets of production and casting globally building scalable models shaping best practices and driving excellence across ecommerce seasonal campaigns athlete integrations and large-scale creative initiatives.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Serving as a strategic partner to Icon Creative leadershiptranslating creative ambition into executable production strategies at scale.

• Partnering with the Global Brand Marketing Production leadership team to establish consistency process alignment rate standardization and best-in-class production practices across all geographies.

• Building strong cross-functional partnerships with Legal Business Affairs Finance Sports Marketing and Global Security to ensure compliance mitigate risk and safeguard Nikes brand and business.

• Overseeing vendor and talent contract negotiations with accountability for financial stewardship and long-term vendor relationship management.

• Partnering with payroll and operational vendors to ensure contracts workflows and budgets are rigorously managed and optimized.

• Continuously improving production processes and scaling models ensuring ICON Studios is at the forefront of operational innovation for production workstreams.

• Providing thought leadership on in-house vs. external production capabilities bringing forward a clear and current point of view on industry trends.

• Partnering with Sports Marketing to strategically integrate athlete and catalyst talent into production streams while balancing creative ambition with scalable execution.

• Designing and standardizing complex production workflows that promote efficiency quality and repeatability at scale.

• Developing mentoring and elevating production talentbuilding the next generation of leaders within the production team.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

• The ICON Studio ecosystemincluding Logistics Planning Studio Facilities Management Equipment Post-Production Creative Operations and Security.

• Nike Creative partnersdesigners art directors creative directors and leadership across geographies and categories.

• Cross-functional business stakeholders including Global Marketing Finance Legal Business Affairs Sports Marketing Nike Direct and Marketplace partners.

• An extensive global network of external production and casting partners agencies and creative collaborators.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelors degree in Marketing Communication or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training.

• Demonstrated expertise in leading scalable ecommerce photo studio production across both still and motion workflows.

• Proven success in overseeing complex multi-million-dollar productions across a variety of mediums channels and geographies.

• A track record of introducing new workflows and approaches that elevate creative output and efficiency.

• 10 years of leadership skills with a strong ability to inspire align and develop high-performing teams.

• Superior negotiation skills and the ability to confidently navigate high-stakes conversations with vendors talent and internal leaders.

• Strong financial acumen with experience managing large-scale budgets contracts and vendor ecosystems.

• A strong communicatorable to partner with cross-functional stakeholders and thrive in a matrixed environment.

• A passion for creativity sports and culture.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for in-person 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.