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.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a member of the Footwear Development team, you will work with key multi-functional team partners like: Product Design, Product Management, Manufacturing, Operations, etc. You will also be the key partner to our teams in Asia including our factory partners to ensure we are creating the product that exceeds our consumer expectations.  You will need to work within the Nike matrix to ensure our products meets our Footwear Development standard methodologies for product excellence. You will also be a key point of contact for our manufacturing partners and ensure that communication during the product development process is clear and accurate.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Do you have a passion for sports, footwear, and delivering amazing product for athletes all around the world? We are looking for a Footwear Product Developer II who will work with cross functional partners to create and drive our product process. You will be an integral part of our Footwear Product Team to help drive product excellence! You will convert a project brief and a 2D design rendering into a 3D sample that meets the needs of our consumer. The candidate needs to be curious, team focused, have a passion for learning, solution orientated, and demonstrate a positive approach to creative problem solving.

As a member of the Global Football Development team, you will help drive product excellence for the Global Football consumers and elite level athletes across Men’s, Women’s and Kids. You will provide project and process direction within the project team to create highly technical performance product. As a member of the Global Football Development team, you will effectively build relationships and interact with teams across Nike Footwear Product Creation and with teams comprising of diverse cultures across various countries.

We are looking for people to join our team who are self-starters, quick learners, clear communicators, team players and that exhibit strong leadership skills.  If that sounds intriguing to you, we’d love to hear from you.

WHAT YOU BRING

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Industrial Design, Engineering, Marketing, Information Technology, or a related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience or training

  • A minimum of 2 years directly relevant work experience

  • Proven verbal and written communication skills with an ability to clearly articulate goals and objectives

  • Strong team-first mentality that instills trust to deliver product excellence

  • Excellent organizational skills with a strong attention to detail

  • Experience in project management, with an ability to prioritize multiple workstreams with competing priorities to deliver on tight timelines

  • Creative problem-solving skills from concepts to application

  • Knowledge of product construction concepts, materials, and the product creation life cycle

  • Demonstrates base level understanding of Consumer Product or Hardgoods

  • Ability to read technical drawings, sketches and/or 3D digital files is a plus

  • Knowledge of footwear pattern engineering, tooling or manufacturing processes is a plus

  • Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You will lead product teams through the creation process to bring to life high-level footwear and ensure on-time delivery of product according to critical dates and performance/profitability goals. You will develop and utilize footwear knowledge to drive results and appropriately achieve project designs. You will work with multi-functional teammates to ensure manufacturability of product concepts. You will apply fundamental understanding of multiple sports and standard methodologies to identify product and testing requirements and assure product performance through physical and field-testing (fit). You will recommend and specify material, component and construction options to meet key features and product performance goals. In summary, you will engage in all phases of the creation process to ensure projects hit performance, design, costing, and sustainability goals, and can be commercialized, manufactured, and delivered on time.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.

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What You Can Expect

OUR HIRING GAME PLAN

01 Apply

Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.

02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment

If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete.  No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.

03 Interview

Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.

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