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Lead Designer, Footwear NXT Space Jobs in Beaverton, OR at Nike
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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, Inc. designs the future. At NIKE, Inc. designers chase their curiosities and build what’s next, shaping the culture and advancing human potential. The Design teams include artists, inventors and specialists, all with different focuses, including color and material experts, and apparel, footwear and graphic designers. Nike designers look to the future, aggressively pursuing materials, ideas and forms that further elevate the athlete experience, raise the bar for modern style and reduce environmental impact.
NXT Space explores the future of sport through radical imagination and barrier breaking innovation. We exist to cultivate extraordinary possibility for athletes.
Formerly known as Nike’s Innovation Kitchen, NXT Space is one of the world’s foremost innovation laboratories exploring revolutionary platforms and strategic products. A playground where a diverse cohort of designers, engineers, risk takers and innovators draft impactful futures for product performance, experience and manufacturing.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for an exceptional Product Design Innovator with proven design excellence and an entrepreneurial approach. This person champions diversity, sustainability and collaboration while thriving in ambiguity. They are driven by curiosity and lead with optimism; consciously nurturing progressive thinking!
This designer can create future forward footwear, apparel and experience designs that revolutionize benefit and capture the imagination of athletes*. They have played key roles in developing proof of concepts and their powerful narratives and presentation skills rally teams and win over audiences. We are looking for someone who is inspired to unite the world through sport, create a healthy planet, enable active communities and elevate the holistic athlete* experience!
What you will work on
If this is you, you’ll be collaborating with cross-functional teams in a matrix environment. Your days and weeks will consistently look different, based on the diversity of your project portfolio. Your workload will include driving self-generated future concepts and supporting team priority programs.
Using performance and cultural insights originating from athletes* along with the Nike Sport Research Lab (NSRL), you will identify growth opportunities and create competitive advantages. You’ll effectively communicate and present concepts to various internal and external audiences by sharing your vision, capturing feedback, aligning with and building momentum. You’ll champion and influence new ways of strategic thinking and visioning to build and initiate research for product Innovation and design concepts.
Who you will work with
As a key member of the Design Innovation team, you’ll help strengthen and shape the collective as a positive force of creativity and curiosity by engaging and uplifting your Design Innovation peers. You will collaborate with portfolio leads, concept c…
Title: Lead Designer, Footwear NXT Space
Company: Nike
Location: Beaverton, OR
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