Expert Designer, Energy Sub-label & Brand Partnerships Apparel Product Design, GLOBAL JORDAN

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Jordan Design is where creative possibility meets purpose. It’s a place for builders, boundary-breakers, and vision-setters; people who move with conviction, think originally, and create work shaped by real experience and cultural depth. Our team thrives when imagination, discipline, and collaboration come together. We look for leaders who bring their full creative voice, who understand the communities that inspire us, and who are driven to shape the future for the next generation of Jordan athletes and fans.

To excel in our Expert Designer, Energy Sub-label & Brand Partnerships Apparel Product Design role, you must hold a passion for action sports, non-traditional sports, and/or adjacent sub-cultures and communities. Jordan Energy greatly values a keen sense and deep understanding of the cultures that embody originality, performance and a mindset of defiance. Platforming the rhythm, language, icons, and unsung heroes and their global influence, this role will inspire and challenge traditional convention in translating these points of connection into ideas and concepts that honor the past, elevate the present, and ignite the future of sport and style.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Based in Beaverton, OR, as the Expert, Energy Sub-labels & Brand Apparel Product Designer you will be a part of the Global Jordan Energy team. This team is responsible for taking risks that drive relevance for all Jordan Sports, while exploring new spaces to incubate meaningful, net-new growth opportunities.

As the Expert, Energy Sub-labels & Brand Partnerships Apparel Product Designer, you are a world-class designer with proven excellence in craft, storytelling, and execution. You bring deep curiosity, taste, and problem-solving rigor to every brief, and are trusted to translate complex ideas into powerful visual narratives that resonate globally. You operate with confidence in ambiguity, lead through example, and consistently raise the creative bar through the quality of your work.

You play a critical role in the conceptualization, design, and development of apparel products in this space. You have a strong affinity for world-building and narrative-driven design, using apparel design know-how and expertise to express culture, emotion, and point of view in a way that feels authentic to the consumer and unmistakably rooted in brand ethos.

You are an expert executor; hands-on, detail-driven, and highly fluent across the end-to-end creative process. From early ideation and visual exploration to final production, you deliver work that is both imaginative and precise. You understand how to bring a vision to life through design systems, storytelling, and craft excellence, while maintaining consistency and intent across platforms and products.

You collaborate seamlessly across disciplines and functions, partnering closely with product design, development, merchandising, marketing, and external collaborators. You listen deeply, respond with clarity, and proactively step into gaps to help move the work forward.

You are deeply connected to culture and the communities that influence sport, style, and creativity. You stay fluent in emerging trends, references, and movements, and bring that cultural intelligence into every concept, apparel aesthetic, and storytelling moment you touch.

You elevate the room through your work ethic, taste level, and creative standards. You influence through craft, mentorship by example, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.

• A high-impact individual contributor who actively designs at the highest level, owning significant bodies of work, seasonal moments, and special projects, while consistently elevating the overall quality of output through example, taste, and executional rigor.
• A trusted creative partner and cultural translator, skilled at collaborating with internal teams and external partners; including collaborators, entertainers, artists, and retail doors, while ensuring work feels authentic, intentional, and grounded in brand and culture.
• A designer with refined taste and a clear point of view, able to translate seasonal concepts into compelling apparel systems and executions, and exercise strong judgment in when to push, refine, or edit to achieve the highest-quality outcomes.
• A disciplined systems thinker, comfortable operating in ambiguity and navigating multiple timelines, workstreams, and cross-functional constraints while maintaining clarity, momentum, and creative integrity.
• A strategic creative contributor who understands how apparel design supports brand equity, storytelling, and commercial impact, and can balance long-term brand vision with near-term seasonal and business needs through disciplined, high-quality execution.
• Deeply curious and culturally fluent, actively plugged into design, music, fashion, sport, and emerging creative communities, using insight, observation, and lived participation; not trend-chasing, to inform apparel design decisions.
• Comfortable operating at a senior level, presenting work with clarity and conviction, incorporating feedback effectively, and partnering closely with the Energy Sublabels & Brand Partnerships Design Director, and cross-functional leaders to bring category-wide creative vision to life through execution.
• An innovative problem solver, capable of translating big ideas into scalable apparel design solutions and executions, moving work from concept through production with rigor, consistency, and attention to detail.
• A trusted executional leader by example, raising the creative bar through taste, craft, and follow-through; setting standards for excellence.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

The future belongs not to those who repeat the past, but to those who dare to reimagine it. To create something that matters. You are a brand guardian who is curious, connected, active participants in various subculture communities. You see unique opportunities to take risks, expand perception, celebrate brand values, accelerate the business and advance the notion of sport culture through thought provoking intersections with cultural influencers.

In this expert role you will develop the tools to grow and maintain Jordan’s presence in the zeitgeist and ensure that we are always at the center of the intersection of court, culture and community. These responsibilities include:

• Shape and drive the Apparel design direction within Jordan Energy’s Sub-labels and Brand Partnerships division, translating seasonal vision into cohesive apparel collections and emerging product expressions with high-quality execution.
• Act as a hands-on creative executor, designing and owning key apparel executions and seasonal moments and projects, consistently elevating the work through expert craft, attention to detail, and strong creative direction while ensuring brand integrity and consistency.
• Lead the execution of Apparel concepts, ensuring product integrity, innovation, and performance while overseeing multiple initiatives across timelines and platforms, always with a keen focus on the long-term cultural relevance and impact of the designs.
• Develop and apply advanced Apparel design strategies that elevate storytelling across categories, ensuring excellence in conceptual thinking, craft, and attention to detail throughout the design process.
• Manage design presentations and communicate concepts effectively to cross-functional partners, ensuring projects maintain creative intent while meeting business timelines, operational requirements, and brand standards.
• Serve as a key creative driver, identifying opportunities to push Apparel expression into new cultural spaces, while ensuring alignment with Jordan Energy’s overarching principles and Jordan Brand’s core identity.
• Partner closely with external collaborators and internal stakeholders, translating partner narratives into compelling Apparel storytelling collections that are both authentic and culturally relevant across consumer touchpoints.
• Act as a senior creative partner to internal teams, navigating complexity, balancing creative ambition with operational realities, and always ensuring alignment with brand integrity and standards.
• Contribute to the identification and cultivation of external creative talent, supporting collaborations with designers, artists, studios, and cultural partners to elevate the creative output of the team and the broader category.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

This role reports to Energy Design Director Sub-lables & Brand Partnerships, Global Jordan. You will partner closely with cross-functional leads across Brand and Brand Creative, Entertainment Marketing, Product Management and Merchandising. Additionally, you will partner with leads across Streetwear and Sport Fields of Play, leading and fostering relationships with both internal and external partners to create a cohesive vision across all Energy categories. Building strong partnerships within the design community and cross-functional teams will be central to your success. You will work amongst a talented team of Apparel, Footwear and Graphics designers across various levels; fostering a culture of collaboration and championing the exploration of new ideas and taking calculated risks to generate unseen possibilities.

WHAT YOU BRING TO JORDAN

A successful candidate will be expected to clearly demonstrate and articulate experience in the essential requirements below, to be considered. Candidates that meet these criteria will then be assessed based on the competencies also outlined below.

Essential Requirements:

• A strong, well-curated Apparel design portfolio is required, demonstrating excellence across research, concept development, visual storytelling, process, and final execution. Portfolio must show both individual craft and collaborative work across complex projects.
• Minimum 8+ years of relevant Apparel design experience, with demonstrated progression in responsibility and scope.
• Bachelor’s degree in Apparel design, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
• Expert-level Apparel design skills, including ideation, design development, specification, and final execution.
• High proficiency in Adobe Illustrator is required; working knowledge of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop strongly preferred. Familiarity with 3D design tools is a plus, with curiosity and willingness to learn expected.
• Demonstrated experience translating research, cultural insight, and narratives into compelling Apparel collections, balancing innovation, performance, and style.
• Strong storytelling and communication skills, both visual and verbal, with the ability to clearly present, defend, and evolve design concepts with cross-functional partners, senior leadership, and external collaborators.
• Experience working across multiple timelines and levels of complexity, effectively prioritizing workload across short and long-term projects while maintaining creative excellence and attention to detail.
• Comfort collaborating across disciplines and functions, with the ability to influence diverse perspectives and personalities to achieve high-quality, aligned outcomes.
• A culturally fluent mindset, well-informed and connected to sport, streetwear, graphic design, music, and emerging creative communities, using insight, not trend-chasing, to inform work.
• A resilient, solutions-oriented approach, thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments while adapting quickly to shifting business needs without sacrificing creative integrity.
• A passion for mentorship and team development, demonstrating self-awareness and the ability to reflect on strengths, growth areas, and learnings; both personally and in support of others.
• Deep passion and knowledge of fashion, design and pop culture and the Jordan brand
• Strong inter-personal, communication and organizational skills required
• Ability to work collaboratively and influence cross-functional teams
• Strong knowledge of industry-leading Apparel executions most-relevant to our Jordan Energy Consumer Muses
• Strong knowledge of the collaboration and Energy landscape across Industries is a plus.

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.