Lead Basketball Footwear Product Developer

Who You’ll Work With

As a member of the Nike Basketball FW Development team, you will work to deliver the world’s greatest basketball footwear for our Nike Signature Athletes and all other athletes*. You’ll collaborate with key footwear functional partners across the globe and help ensure that performance, quality and business needs are always considered. You are the key point of contact between our PCC/PMO partners and PHK product team and must ensure that communication during the product development process is complete, clear, and accurate.

The environment of Nike Basketball is as dynamic as the game itself and the ideal candidate will be comfortable with changes, ambiguity and passionate about obsessing performance quality in every decision they make.

This role reports to the Director, Nike Basketball FW Product Development.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for a Lead Footwear Product Developer to be an integral part of our Nike Basketball Team to help create pinnacle performance footwear for the highest performing athletes in the game of basketball. The ideal candidate needs to have demonstrated project management, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a product development environment. They will interact with athletes and the product creation teams across the globe to apply insights while also ensuring the projects hit key measurables for both business and performance.

• Be a self-starter, quick learner, clear communicator, great teammate, and exhibit strong leadership skills.
• Build relationships, lead, and interact with teams across Nike Footwear Product Creation and with teams comprising of diverse cultures across various countries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, industrial design, business, marketing, physical sciences, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• A minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience.
• Directly applicable Footwear Development or Engineering work experience across multiple footwear sports/styles.
• Experience or training in Marketing, Business, Industrial Design, Engineering, Physical Sciences preferred.

What You’ll Work On

• Work on new creation of technical product as well as expression of color, material, and graphic applications.
• 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.
• Apply your expert level knowledge and experience to improve product excellence.
• Identify and address 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.
• Meet design intent, performance goals, costing/profitability, sustainability targets, and product integrity requirements.