Expert Designer, Basketball Apparel Graphic Design

Who You’ll Work With

You will be driving graphic strategy and vision while working with multiple teams of designers, developers, and product managers to deliver creative in line with the Nike Design Ethos. This opportunity will require strong collaborative skills to meet deadlines, ensure feasibility of designs, hit price points, while talking your partners through the thinking behind your work.

Who We Are Looking For

• Exceptional Product Design Storyteller with proven design excellence, curiosity, problem-solving tenacity, and a passion for making those around them better.
• Key role in authoring powerful narratives that inspire athletes, franchises, and fans worldwide.
• Thrives in ambiguity, driven by curiosity, leads with optimism, champions groundbreaking thinking, and thinks strategically.
• Key role in conceptualizing, designing, and developing uniform graphics and branding elements.
• World-building and storytelling through uniform design, integrating narrative elements that resonate with fans and athletes.
• Key role in mentoring and developing junior designers, fostering their growth and skills within the design team and Nike Design community.

What You’ll Work On

• Conceptualizing narratives across multiple NBA and WNBA Uniforms through Graphic Visual Centers and Presentations.
• Working closely with your Uniform Design teammates to ensure the creation of the future of sport across Licensed Basketball Uniforms.
• Collaborating with Internal and External Product and Design partners on construction, development, insights, and various presentation gates.
• Engaging in brainstorm sessions on creative strategies and meetings designed to review uniform designs achieving the desired goal.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, 8 years or more of graphic design experience at agency or in-house setting, or equivalent combination of relevant education, experience, and training.
• Passion and understanding of current and emerging design trends and visual culture.
• Master at translating insights into authentic narratives and visual storytelling.
• Ability to adapt to change and handle multiple, competing priorities.
• Mastery of design craft, innovation, graphic applications, prints, processes, and tools.
• Master of apparel product creation.
• Digital design acumen in Adobe CC and comfort working within digital tools/3D.
• Able to embrace diverse points of view while fostering an environment of inclusivity.
• Passion for empowering our Athletes/Teams and making their dreams come true.