Senior Manager, Olympics Footwear & Apparel Color & Materials Design
Nike
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 If this is you, you will be creating concepts and new material designs on a range of products for Nike Olympic Footwear. You will work on elevating new technologies that influence brand new models, and seasonal narratives.
You will also work on Athlete signature products and manage that relationship to help guide the team to creative executions and evolutions. Your goal will be to 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.
You will unleash creativity with a focus on sustainability, leveraging consumer insights to inform our creative response. Your focus will help drive innovation and embed cultural connections into our designs to create separation from our competition.
The daily responsibilities of this role are wide ranging, ambitious, and exciting! WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH As a Sr Manager Footwear Expression Designer in Olyympic Sport you will be working hand in hand with a large project team of different professionals (engineers, researchers, scientists, marketing, product testing, sustainability, materials development, costing, etc.
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