Senior Digital Visualization Artist

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The Sr. Product Visualization Artist is an experienced creative and technical practitioner responsible for developing high-quality visualizations that bring footwear, apparel, and accessories to life. This role combines strong visualization craft with technical expertise and an understanding of how to communicate design intent, innovation, functionality, performance benefits, and consumer value.

The Sr. Product Visualization Artist independently leads complex visualization work, contributes to team standards and workflows, and collaborates across disciplines to deliver dynamic product experiences that support product understanding and business decision-making. The role also helps advance the team’s capabilities by exploring and applying new visualization approaches, tools, and emerging technologies.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will partner with various producers and cross-functional teams to understand incoming work and translate product, creative, and business objectives into clear visualization solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Create high-quality product visualizations that bring footwear, apparel, and accessories to life.
• Develop dynamic visualization experiences that communicate design intent, innovation, functionality, performance benefits, and consumer value.
• Independently lead complex visualization assignments from defined requirements through final delivery.
• Create visualization assets such as Head-to-Toe looks, exploded views, feature storytelling, product demonstrations, interactive visualizations, and other emerging capabilities.
• Apply advanced knowledge of product visualization, 3D workflows, real-time technologies, digital asset creation, and visual storytelling.
• Identify technical or creative dependencies, risks, and gaps that could affect execution, and work with partners to resolve them.
• Balance creative quality, technical requirements, timelines, and scalability when developing visualization solutions.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of team standards, workflows, tools, and best practices.
• Support experimentation with and adoption of new technologies, including GenAI-enabled capabilities, real-time visualization, automation, and emerging ways of working.
• Share knowledge and provide guidance to less experienced artists through collaboration, critique, and mentorship.
• Help improve the quality, consistency, speed, and scalability of visualization work across the team.

What Success Looks Like

• Consistently delivers complex, high-quality product visualization work with minimal direction.
• Products are brought to life in ways that clearly communicate design, functionality, innovation, performance, and consumer benefits.
• Visualization work helps stakeholders better understand products and make more informed decisions.
• Demonstrates advanced creative and technical expertise across product visualization workflows.
• Effectively translates defined business, product, and creative objectives into compelling visualization solutions.
• Anticipates and resolves creative and technical challenges that could affect delivery.
• Contributes to improved team quality, consistency, efficiency, and ways of working.
• Successfully applies new tools, technologies, and techniques to meaningful visualization opportunities.
• Serves as a trusted collaborator and mentor within the team.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in Art, Design, or a related field; will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training
• A portfolio is REQUIRED – please submit it with your resume or include a link to it on your resume.
• 5+ years of related professional work experience
• Solid foundation in 3D content creation, using Blender, Maya, or equivalent software.
• Working knowledge of Adobe creative tools, such as Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Designer, Photoshop, Premier, AfterEffects, or similar tools used for texturing, materials, and digital content creation.
• Established skills in modeling, animation, materials, texturing, lighting, and compositing.
• Eye for visual quality and attention to detail.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools and emerging technologies, with an interest in exploring how they can enhance creative workflows.
• Studio experience a plus
• Footwear and/or apparel experience/understanding a plus

Position Location & Schedule 
This position is based at our incredibly beautiful worldwide campus headquarters location in Beaverton, Oregon. You'll work a "4/1 hybrid" schedule - Mondays - Thursdays are in the office and it's optional if you'd like to work Fridays from the Nike campus office or your home office. 

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