Who we are looking for

We are looking for a Creative Concept Director to join our Concept Design team in Nike Global Design. Concept Design is the leading edge of defining the future of Nike, bridging the worlds of emerging innovation, athlete insights, product design, and brand storytelling to develop the ideas that will define the brand. Concept Design is the creative function that ideates, illustrates, and shepherds Nike’s key initiatives to athletes around the globe. Creative Concept Directors lead this process for a Nike field of play. Candidates for this role must be collaborative, imaginative, and tactical, as they will turn creative strategy and big ideas into visual art direction and storytelling to influence the Nike organization!

This posting is for multiple Director positions within the Global Creative Concept function within Men’s and Women’s including Running, Lifestyle, and Team Sports.

Concept directors are both outstanding leaders and collaborative teammates, focused on both creating concepts and building the materials and experiences to bring them to life, alongside their cross-functional teammates. They are experienced creative leaders and can work across mediums including strategy, art direction, moving image, graphic and spatial design. They have a passion for creativity and are committed to staying on top of current and future trends in design, creative culture and technology!

As a candidate for this role, you have passion for creative leadership, collaborative energy, and the ability to assimilate a range of cultural, athlete, and business insights into creative strategy, brand identity, and world-building that activate the Nike organization around your idea. You are truly a multi-faceted creative who loves both the blue sky thinking and crafting all the materials that will bring that idea to life, from creative strategy art direction to graphic design to styling and marketing storytelling.

What you will work on

As Creative Concept Director your job is build Nike worlds. You’ll work directly with the Creative Concept team, product design leaders, consumer insights and brand business leaders to find opportunities, build ideas, visual identities and craft how those ideas can connect with athletes around the globe.

A given day can consist of big brainstorms, photoshoots, inspiration travel, meeting with agency partners, gathering athlete insights, or pitching your big idea to Nike leadership. Along with your team, you will concept the ideas themselves and deploy your combination of strategy, creative direction, art direction and world building to illustrate those ideas for the organization.

Who you will work with

The Creative Concept Director reports to the Senior Creative Concept Director, manages Concept Designers, and works with the Creative Stylists. In your day-to-day you collaborate with Product Design, Product Merchandising, the GM, and Brand Marketing counterparts.

What you will bring

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Design or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 8 years professional experience in design, within product or marketing, brand or agency.
• A passion for the Athlete*, Sport* and Culture.
• Expertise in all aspects of visual design
• Experience in creative strategy and narrative.
• Experience managing other creatives as direct reports.
• Solid portfolio of relevant work, displaying a passion for inspirational storytelling, photo art direction, brand identity, and world building.
• Excellent verbal and visual communication skills; adept at presenting and defending creative ideas.
• Ability to collaborate with and effectively manage external creative partners.
• Ability to orchestrate creative collaboration across a network of creative studios.
• A positive mentality with proven ability to flex and adapt to changing business needs while maintaining creative quality.
• Laser-sharp focus to work quickly and efficiently under pressure.
• Strong interpersonal resourcefulness with the ability to cultivate cross-functional partnerships and an open, positive and collaborative environment.
• Highly developed curiosity and in-depth understanding of design culture and youth culture, current and past.