WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Nike seeks a Lead Experience Designer passionate about crafting end-to-end branded experiences and believes in design’s power to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. You embrace storytelling and world-building to connectemotionally with your audience. You think about the big picture AND the details because that is how unforgettable retail experiences come to life. You’re equal parts strategic and creative, because you are always aiming to evolve services and experiences that improve the consumer retail experience and reflect Nike’s design ethos. You leverage design thinking and consumer insights to inform your solutions while having your finger on the pulse of future trends to define new opportunities for retail experiences.

Ideally, you bring deep expertise in branded environments but have breadth across brand design, retail design, graphic design or digital design. You are comfortable being a hands-on designer and confident working across all phases of design including creating consumer journeys, defining experience principles, ideating creative concepts, engaging with agencies, and knowledgeable with fabrication, construction, and other creative production methods.

You will work across multiple projects, partnering closely with our internal Global Brand Retail Design teams and our cross-functional partners, Global Retail Marketing and Store Development, to deliver 365 and seasonal signature services, develop foundational retail experiences, and define experience journeys and narratives. We are looking for someone who shares our drive and agility to explore the new, and who is passionate and eager to create boundary-breaking experiences.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

· Support and partner with Global Brand Retail Design Sr Creative Director and Design Director to develop and drive innovative solutions for consumer experiences at Retail.

· Define consumer journeys for discrete services, foundational experiences, and/or overall store concepts.

· Leverage consumer insights and design research to fuel ideation for meaningful, tangible retail experiences.

Ensures project goals and priorities align with Nike retail brand and business strategies.

· Design with the versatility to bring innovative seasonal experiences to life, combining spatial design, storytelling, and digital and tech-enabled mediums.

Develops presentation materials that effectively communicate strategy, concepts, and design to all levels of management and partners.

· Create playbooks and guidelines for Geo teams.

Collaborate with peers, design counterparts, internal partners (Brand, Retail Brand, Brand Creative, Digital, Brand Comms etc.) and external partners to ensure feasibility of designs and functional needs are met.

· Have your finger on the pulse of future trends, technologies, and consumer habits and how

· Understand design processes to ensure results, timelines and budgets are met.

You may travel 10-20% of the time.

WHAT YOU BRING

· Experience creating consumer journeys to communicate experience intent, design intent, and desired outcome.

· Exceptional design skills, including concepting, ideation, sketching, spatial design, and space planning layouts.

Minimum of 7+ years of progressive, technically sophisticated design experience in architectural, experiential or brand design and a demonstrated ability to apply these skills in ways that elevate brand excellence.
Bachelors/master’s degree in graphic design, architecture, industrial, or environmental design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Demonstrated design-thinking and human-centered design approach applied to projects/work.
Confidence in operating in a design studio that delivers progressively complex projects of scale, budget, and size.
Expert oral and written communication and presentations skills, including meeting facilitation, brainstorms, and presentations to senior management.
Ability to work cooperatively across streams and territories to share ideas and develop effective responses and feedback.
Proven ability to work on your own in a constantly evolving, high-growth environment.
Positivity and eagerness to do great work in a team environment
Ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes.
Demonstrated expertise using computer design applications including SketchUp, Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, Figma, Keynote and Adobe Creative Suite.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. 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.

Lead – Brand Creative Retail Signature Experience Designer Global

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