Senior Manager, Olympics Footwear & Apparel Color & Materials Design

Who We Are Looking For

We’re looking for an exceptional Sr Manager Olympics, Footwear Apparel Color & Materials Designer to combine their experience, problem solving abilities, and creativity to help create the future of Olympic Sport. The ideal candidate needs to be a highly creative problem solver, who doesn’t settle for anything less than the best design and materials solutions, to meet the needs of the consumer on and off the field of play. This person will be focused on elevating the consumer experience by creating materials that are performance and trend-relevant for a range of products, while driving an emotional connection to materials for the consumer using narrative and storytelling as well as pushing the edges of sustainable footwear material design.

What You Will Work On

• Create concepts and new material designs on a range of products for Nike Olympic Footwear
• Work on elevating new technologies that influence brand new models, and seasonal narratives
• Work on Athlete signature products and manage that relationship to help guide the team to creative executions and evolutions
• Aim for product excellence by partnering with key stakeholders cross-functionally on the product creation process and help bring the vision for the future of Olympic Sport products to life
• Unleash creativity with a focus on sustainability, leveraging consumer insights to inform our creative response
• Drive innovation and embed cultural connections into our designs to create separation from our competition

Who You Will Work With

• Work hand in hand with a large project team of different professionals (engineers, researchers, scientists, marketing, product testing, sustainability, materials development, costing, etc.)
• Collaborate within the design community (industrial designers, materials, color, graphics, computational, etc.)
• Mentor other designers

Experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher in textiles design or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• To be considered, you must submit a creative design portfolio. Please provide website links or attach PDF when you apply.

Qualifications

• TO BE CONSIDERED, YOU MUST SUBMIT A CREATIVE DESIG PORTFOLIO. PLEASE PROVIDE WEBSITE LINKS OR ATTACH PDF WHEN YOU APPLY

Benefits

• Number of accommodations available during the interview process
• Accessible and single location for in-person interviews
• Screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed