NIKE, Inc. is seeking a visionary design leader to elevate Partners Seasonless Retail across North America. This role partners with NA Retail Accounts Marketing, Retail Brand, Nike Direct Seasonal and Seasonless Retail, and external agencies to deliver unified, premium marketplace executions.
Who We Are Looking For
The ideal candidate is a consumer-first design leader who can push the boundaries of immersive retail while staying grounded in retail realities. You bring deep experience across environmental design disciplines, including materials and fixture systems, spatial design, and graphic and digital integration.
You are a senior retail design leader with expertise across wholesale partners, franchise, licensed stores, department stores, concession environments, and shop-in-shop concepts. You can lead concept design, design development, FF&E, fixture systems, environmental graphics, and brand governance.
Key Qualifications
- 10+ years of retail design, architecture, interior design, or experiential design leadership.
- Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interior design, spatial design, or a related field. Any suitable combination of education, experience, and training will be accepted.
- Awareness of trends in color, art, architecture, experience design, and graphic design, and their application to the sport industry.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex projects across varying scales, budgets, and timelines.
- Expertise in fixture and production design, materiality, fabrication, and emerging manufacturing trends.
- Deep experience with partner doors, franchise, license, department store, and concession retail environments.
- Expertise in concept design, design development, FF&E, fixtures, materials, and environmental graphics.
- Ability to create and govern retail design standards and implementation guidelines.
- Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills.
- Ability to lead multiple complex retail design initiatives in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
What You Will Work On
You’ll oversee the design of Partners Seasonless Retail, leading North American partner-door retail design through a seasonless 365 lens while ensuring Nike’s brand standards elevate the retail experience across the marketplace.
- Partner with the Design Director to define seasonless and long-term Partners marketplace design strategy.
- Review designs across each creative stage, providing direction on concept, materiality, scale, FF&E, branding, story design, and environmental integration.
- Collaborate with Nike Direct Seasonless Retail to align design across Nike Direct and Partners executions.
- Build presentations that communicate creative strategy to leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Work with Accounts Marketing, Retail Brand, Visual Merchandising, Brand Creative, Operations, and external agencies.
- Identify value-engineering opportunities while staying within budget.
- Contribute to Nike’s brand standards, design ethos, and operational practices for Partners Retail.
- Explore storytelling through lighting, sculpture, motion, environmental graphics, and emerging technologies.
- Develop and maintain Partner Door Retail Design Guidelines.
- Create scalable design frameworks, toolkits, and playbooks for architecture, fixtures, graphics, materiality, and digital integration.
- Travel 5–10% as needed to support high-priority marketplace installs.
NIKE, Inc. offers a generous total rewards package, a casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional development. NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.