Brand Creative Production is the center of excellence for production at Nike. Together, with Brand Creative, we are the voice of Nike’s heart and soul. It's about telling powerful, meaningful stories across the entire brand ecosystem, leveraging all existing and new platforms to inspire, enable and engage athletes*, while driving brand distinction and business impact. NA Brand Creative Production is a team of enterprise thinkers who are experts in bringing ideas to life. You will work to up-level the team’s deep industry expertise by learning, inspiring and sharing knowledge with the collective Brand Creative team.

This position is based at our amazing worldwide headquarters location in Beaverton, OR. The work schedule is a “4/1 Hybrid” schedule – Mondays-Thursdays in the office; Fridays based either at the office or at your home office location.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR:
Nike is seeking a Lead Creative Producer to drive world-class productions end-to-end for North America Brand Creative. We’re looking for:

• A high-impact leader with a wealth of production experience across various mediums, including (but not exclusive to) digital, social, out of home, broadcast
• A passionate, exceptionally organized, and solutions-oriented producer
• A creative thinker with outstanding communication skills that thrives under pressure, embracing change and knowing when and where to be flexible
• Someone with hard and soft skills to navigate your projects from initial brief intake and creative development through pre- and post-production
• Ability to collaborate tightly with other production functions and with counterparts across many different teams to help deliver creative in accordance with our Brand Standards

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON:

Whether on set managing live-action production, commissioning an illustrator or animator, or working with an architect to build a space, you work in ambiguity and are energized by the challenge of learning as you go.

You digest, edit and circulate the most important information clearly and effectively to stakeholders. However complex the project, you remain clear on priorities and empower your team. You’re an expert collaborator who knows how to get the best out of everyone. You enjoy sharing knowledge and advising others, proactively helping the team develop skills and our collective creative output. When things change direction or obstacles appear, you speak up and contribute solutions.

You will report to the Sr. Manager of Production, and partner daily with teammates across Portland, Los Angeles, and New York City. While this role has no direct reports, you will act as a lead mentor for Senior Producers and Specialists, providing guidance on best practices and production excellence.

WHAT YOU BRING:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
• 7+ years of directly relevant work experience in in content production and creative project management; strong interest in staying up to date with current and future trends and innovations
• Production Expertise: Deep knowledge of content and creative production best practices with proven ability to work with internal and external creatives, commissioning and managing multiple creative partners ranging from world-renowned agencies to up-and-coming artists and creators to deliver premium and inspirational stories and experiences
• Strategic Thinking: Uplevel the work we do and continuously deliver a premium creative product; shows potential for enterprise thinking across multiple projects/processes
• Strong Communicator: Forward-thinker with exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Negotiation Skills: Expert-level contract negotiation and vendor management with interest in cultivating a broad network of external partners
• Operational Excellence: Expert-level ability to draft SOWs and reconcile complex production budgets; proven ability to prioritize work appropriately, meet deadlines, with multiple projects at one time
• Relationship Management: Ability to build working relationships with core and cross-functional teams; ability to represent brand creative ideas in meetings with Leadership and be able to back the work with sound reasoning
• Mentorship: A willingness to mentor junior team members and elevate the craft of production across the NA team
• Tools: Proficiency in Airtable, Figma a plus
• Travel: Ability to travel approximately 20% of the time domestically

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.