Senior Digital Designer, Design Systems

NIKE, Inc. is looking for a Senior Digital Designer for the Nike Podium Design System team. The team co-creates a design system that translates Nike’s brand into highly flexible, reusable UI for digital products across the company.

Who you’ll work with

You will work alongside two Lead Designers and a Lead Engineer in a collaborative, cross-functional environment. Podium works horizontally across Nike Digital Product Design and partners with product teams that use and implement the system. The role reports to the Senior Design Manager of the Podium Team.

Who we are looking for

• Relevant experience in end-to-end digital product design, with demonstrated visual and UX expertise.
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in design or a related field, or a suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, and execution.
• Ability to deliver high-quality, end-to-end design solutions that uphold Nike’s standards.
• Strong UX, UI, and information architecture expertise with a user-centric, insights-based process.
• Experience collaborating with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers, and marketers.
• Experience with consumer research and data.
• Design systems experience, including tokens, components, and Figma-to-code parity.
• AI fluency, including Cursor or agents and structured content for machine readability.
• Experience with enterprise or high-density internal tooling interfaces, subsystem libraries, documentation sites, motion design, or lightweight React, TypeScript, CSS custom properties, and npm publishing patterns is valuable.

What you will work on

• Designing Podium Design System components, tokens, guidance, AI tooling, and product integrations.
• Driving strategic thinking and design execution across large-scale project tracks.
• Creating polished visual comps, wireframes, flows, and prototypes that represent the Nike brand.
• Owning multiple product features for medium- to large-scale projects.
• Taking ownership of ambiguous project areas and iterating designs from briefing through final delivery.
• Collaborating with producers, product managers, design operations, engineers, researchers, and designers.
• Using user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, design thinking, and workshops.
• Mentoring designers and interns and helping strengthen Nike’s internal design culture.
• Communicating design intent and creating cohesive experiences across large projects.
• Launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization.

NIKE offers a total rewards package, a casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional development. The company is an equal opportunity employer and offers accommodations throughout the interview process.