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.
Who You’ll Work With
Under the direction of a Design Director, and in partnership with Retail Producers and cross-functional peers, you and your team will realize innovative, original retail environments, displays and digital solutions for retail stores with a focus on seasonless storytelling in Sport, Innovation, Brand DNA, and Hyper-localization.
This is a people leadership role responsible for leading, coaching, and developing a team of in-house Story Designers and contract design talent while fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and innovation. Outside of Nike, you will collaborate with creative agency partners and production vendors.
Who We Are Looking For
Nike seeks a Senior Manager-level Story Designer for Retail: an innovator who will lead and develop consumer-led retail concepts and the evolution of the Nike retail business. This is a creative, collaborative, and strategic leader who will develop impactful and scalable design solutions for immersive retail environments and experiences.
- 10+ years of progressive, technically sophisticated design experience in graphic, experiential, spatial, or brand design.
- Bachelor’s degree in architecture, graphic design, or a related field, or a suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
- A passion for the Athlete, Sport, and Culture.
- Experience managing a design studio and delivering complex projects across varying scales, budgets, and timelines.
- Expertise in concepting, ideation, drawing and sketching, typography, color theory, spatial design, visual presentation development, and space planning.
- Knowledge of trends in color, graphic design, art, photography, architecture, experience design, production design, fabrication, materiality, and emerging manufacturing.
- Expert oral and written communication skills, including presenting concepts to executive leaders.
- Strong interpersonal, collaboration, relationship-building, and team leadership skills.
- Experience with SketchUp, Enscape, Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, Figma, Keynote, and Adobe Creative Suite. Motion graphics and video-editing experience is a plus.
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing in-house and contract creative teams.
What You’ll Work On
- Partner with the Design Director to lead seasonless story design and long-term vision, strategic direction, and design continuity.
- Manage team workload, project assignments, and resource planning.
- Lead ideation focused on strategy, color, materiality, texture, spacing, proportion, scale, and environmental use.
- Lead, coach, and develop Story Designers and contract design talent through creative direction, feedback, career development, and day-to-day support.
- Foster creativity, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.
- Develop presentation materials that communicate creative strategy and design concepts.
- Collaborate with producers, Brand, Retail Brand, Visual Merchandising, Brand Creative, Digital, and external partners.
- Attend retail installs across North America.
- Explore storytelling through graphics, styling, lighting, sculpture, photography, video, animation, and more.
- Ensure results, timelines, and budgets are met.
- Identify staffing needs, support hiring efforts, and build a strong and diverse team.
- Create presentation documents and 3D and 2D files to communicate design concepts.
Travel may be required 5–15% of the time.
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.