Lead Product Developer - Energy Footwear (Multiple Openings)
About the role
The Footwear Energy Team creates culturally relevant, groundbreaking footwear that surprises our most discerning consumers. The team delivers Nike’s pinnacle expressions across collaborations, fashion collections, and athlete-led initiatives. We routinely partner with athletes and influencers to create performance and lifestyle products through dynamic, evolving processes. This role sits within Nike’s Product Creation Team—a collective of developers, engineers material experts, and testing analysts obsessed with raising the bar of footwear product excellence. The Lead Developer partners closely with Design, Marketing, Product Creation and Innovation teams, and collaborates daily with both onshore and offshore manufacturing partners to bring bold ideas to life.
Responsibilities
The Lead Footwear Product Developer drives product creation from concept through commercialization. This role provides project and process direction within fast-paced, close-to-market development environments while ensuring each project meets design intent, quality, performance, cost, sustainability, and timing expectations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, material development, engineering, physical sciences or related field.
- Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- 6+ years of Footwear Product Creation experience
Qualifications
- Background in engineering, material development, and footwear manufacturing is a plus.
- Lead footwear product development projects at an accelerated pace, through all phases of product creation.
- Leverage deep technical knowledge across lasts, uppers, materials, tooling, costing, engineering, testing, and manufacturing.
Skills
- Motivated and driven self-starter who can exhibit strong project management