Director, Core Studio Footwear Materials Design

NIKE, Inc. designs the future. At NIKE, Inc. designers chase their curiosities and build what’s next, shaping the culture and advancing human potential. The Central Design teams include artists, inventors and specialists, all with different focuses, including experts in color, sustainability and materials, as well as apparel and footwear product designers.

Nike designers look to the future, aggressively pursuing ideas and forms that elevate the athlete experience, raise the bar for modern style and reduce environmental impact. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are looking for an exceptional leader to join the team as the Materials Design Director for the Nike Core Footwear design team.

The ideal designer is a curious observer, eager participant and a cultural sponge – seeking insights to solve problems. You leverage your expert design skills along with your deep material knowledge in highly creative problem solving to create material design direction for a range of categories across performance, lifestyle and solar.

You will use your design knowledge to create seasonal direction to align your functional team, and your crossfunctional business partners to consumer and trend relavant solves. You manage and mentor your team to success and work with the Senior Director to ensure Product, color and materials are all telling a cohesive and compelling story through industry-leading product.

You leverage your versatility and creativity to lead our material design team across the wide range of product in the sport performance and sport lifestyle footwear landscape. You will partner with innovation, materials development and our vendors to keep our product on the leading edge of performance and culture.

The ideal candidate thrives on team collaboration and building new working relationships, project management skills, strategic thinking and the ability to work through ambiguity to lead your teams to successful project completion - from concept to reality.

You challenge the status quo