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
Nike Global Digital Marketing is a diverse, inclusive, innovative, and passionate team. Our role is to serve the athlete at the speed of digital in the spaces & places that matter to them. Delivering disruptive digital strategies to maximize brand concepts in service of our greater vision of making athlete dreams real.
This role will report to the Global Digital Marketing Director for Nike Football. You will work closely with Global Brand Management, Integrated Media, Social, Comms, Sports Marketing, Creative, and Business leads, in Global as well as with Geography partners in EMEA, North America, APLA, and Greater China. You will also manage agencies and partners to bring strategies to life, as needed.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The Global Digital Marketing Lead for Nike Football will lead distinctive and disruptive digital strategies and plans that expand Nike’s brand connection & influence with Gen Z football athletes*. They should have a passion for Football, as well as a strong pulse on what’s happening in Football culture, the community, and competitor landscape online and offline.
The ideal candidate will bring a desire to be part of a fast-paced, high-energy team of digital marketers who are hungry to spearhead the industry. The ability to think creatively, take calculated risks, and have a passion to crafting breakthrough, impactful and innovative digital marketing strategies & plans is a must.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education, experience and training.
- 5+ years of experience driving digital marketing at a global, geo and/or city level.
- A deep passion for Gen Z football culture and Nike Football product, paired with a clear perspective on how digital experiences and Nike-only distinctions can inspire, educate, and serve this next generation of players
- Proven track record of leading transformative innovative marketing initiatives in digital consumer engagement, preferably within football.
- Effective communicator, both written, verbally and through formal presentation of plans.
- Great interpersonal skills and team first attitude across everything they do. A strong sense of personal accountability, a bias for action, and an ability to work autonomously.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
You will lead & oversee seasonal digital marketing plans for Nike Football, delivering both disruptive ideas to ignite the brand as well as orchestrating digital experiences to drive growth for Nike Football footwear and apparel. Additionally, you will:
- Help cultivate relationships with footballers where they are off-platform and create compelling hooks to bring them on-platform to experience football products, athletes, stories, and communities in new ways
- Manage the end-to-end execution of the integrated, global digital marketing plan from brief to completion
- Leverage deep marketplace and consumer insights to shape the seasonal brief, as well as the disruptive ideas that ladder into the objectives & outcomes of the plan
- Establish clear objectives and outcomes with our global cross-functional and geo digital marketing partners to help drive and influence the work
- Drive strong internal cross-functional and external agency partnerships that helps foster positive communication and a collaborative work environment.
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.
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.
