Lead, Footwear Color & Materials Designer, Local Creation GC

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create.

Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Nike Local Creation GC is one of the fastest product engines at Nike, enabling designers to connect with geo-specific consumers quickly and effectively. Reporting to the Local Creation Design organization, this role focuses on creating inspiring products tailored to specific marketplaces and geographic audiences, capturing fast-moving trends and delivering regionally relevant narratives with flexibility and speed.

Local Creation team's mission is to amplify and incubate new ideas while driving and extending consumer favorites, serving local consumers with executions that offer greater relevance and immediacy. We seek a candidate who embodies our values of authenticity, accountability, collaboration, and courage—someone eager to grow, challenge themselves, and act independently as a self-driven contributor.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are looking for a Lead Designer, Footwear Color & Materials, Local Creation GC to lead color and material expression across sportswear footwear opportunities for the Greater China marketplace. The ideal candidate combines advanced color and material craft with a strong understanding of sportswear product expression, consumer behavior, local marketplace needs, and Nike design direction.

They can turn Greater China consumer and marketplace insights into relevant product stories without losing sight product integrity, or Nike brand standards. They can work across franchises, consumer constructs, city stories, cultural moments, and locally identified marke