Senior Creative Director, Tennis

Beaverton, OR - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

WHO YOULL WORK WITH

In this position you will report directly to the VP Creative Director of Sport and manage a team focused on footwear & apparel product graphic color and material design. Youll work closely with colleagues in design product management global merchandising brand marketing and development across various business areas to maintain consistency and alignment. Additionally youll collaborate with the wider sport design teams to support a unified strategic direction.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a Senior Creative Director to shape inspire and guide the creative vision and teams through world-building concepts Nike-exclusive products and athlete-focused key looks ensuring a comprehensive approach from start to this role you will oversee a small agile team and be responsible for setting the design direction and implementing initiatives that will shape the future of design for Nike Tennis.

Key experiences we are seeking for this position:

Bachelors degree in design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training
10 years of professional creative experience in footwear apparel or product creation.
Prior senior design leadership experience in design brand innovation and/or leading a creative team at scale.
Expertise in setting and driving comprehensive design strategy and creative direction at scale.
Experience working across multiple initiatives and objectives across the enterprise.
Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary design teams and influence cross-functional partners effectively.
Exceptional storytelling communication and presentation skills.
Ability to operate at visionary strategical and tactical levels.
Strong design intuition combined with business acumen and strategic thinking.

WHAT YOULL WORK ON

This role requires agility managing ambiguity a prioritization mindset and the ability to connect across multiple functions including brand merchandising geos and product creation teams.

Build long term vision and seasonal creative direction.
Develop a 3-5 year strategy in collaboration with the GM while partnering alongside the Brand Director and Product Directors.
Build and land the design innovation roadmap for Tennis in partnership with NXT design leaders.
Initiate design explorations with teams to build seasonal direction.
Create seasonal creative direction including seasonal concept(s) product creative direction colors graphics and materials direction in collaboration with the Tennis design leadership team and leveraging Brand creative direction from Design Leadership.
Build design foundations for Nike Tennis: elevate and hold brand standards on products design best practices and ground in fundamentals for Tennis across footwear & apparel (science) and blend with end-in-mind expertise (athlete and retail).
Create an engaging & high-performing design environment: build best-in-class environment for designers and build high performing teams.
From creative direction to products in store: ensure end to end design approach through concept products head to toe looks and cohesive Tennis seasonal collections (new styles carry-overs).

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.

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WHO YOULL WORK WITHIn this position you will report directly to the VP Creative Director of Sport and manage a team focused on footwear & apparel product graphic color and material design. Youll work closely with colleagues in design product management global merchandising brand marketing and develo...