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.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $97,200.00 in our lowest geographic market to $217,700.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience.

Information about benefits can be found here.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Nike’s Global Brand Design team is seeking a visionary and seasoned Styling Lead to lead styling daily photo and motion production at our Los Angeles studio. As part of the Global Brand Design team, you will have a directly visible impact on the public face of one of the world’s most coveted and recognizable brands. The Styling Lead will partner with a team of on-figure and still life stylists, driving creative excellence, teamwork and collaboration. You will be responsible for styling all seasonal product assortments and creating visual assets across all Nike Fields of Play to be featured in Nike.com product detail pages, seasonal campaigns, and marketing materials across Nike’s website, apps, stores and social media initiatives. You are passionate and connected to the creative industry and this ever expanding knowledge, network and interest both inspire and drive your creative thinking.

The exceptional candidate will have a diverse and well-rounded skill set across fashion image-making for both stills and video, creating inspirational, contemporary content while collaborating with a team.

This candidate starts with the Brand and athlete, is innovative, understanding that styling is critical in the design of an inspirational brand experience. They will possess a high taste level and sharp eye, with well-rounded experience with model imagery.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

  • Driving the styling and quality standards of all creative assets produced by Nike’s Icon Studio Los Angeles through day-to-day styling in studio. As a champion of a premium brand experience, you will ensure all the content we produce is authentic, distinctive, and 100% Nike.

  • Upholding a premium brand styling POV consistently across platforms, channels, and marketplaces.

  • Orchestrates styling across multiple studio teams with complexly diversified business demands across all product categories.

  • Provide clear, concise styling direction; bring expert experience to shoot productions and effectively direct a styling team from start to finish, including the building of mood-boards, developing styled looks, overseeing on-set dressing and styling for on-figure and still life styling.

  • You inspire and engage a team of stylists, providing daily on-set supervision as well as mentoring their growth over the long term.

  • In addition to all external consumer-facing assets, the Styling Director will maintain the internal visual identity of styling, designing and laying out business-critical communications to internal partners on the status of key Imaging projects and seasonal directives.

  • Close partnership with Icon Los Angeles Creative & Production teams.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

Your primary daily interactions will be with the creative, styling and production teams at Icon Los Angeles, and your Global Brand Design and Global Brand Digital Marketing partners at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Will Report directly to the Senior Creative Director of Icon Studios.

WHAT YOU BRING

  • 4-7 years in commercial styling management roles, with specific creative oversight responsibility for the ongoing daily styling of merchandise detail pages for digital

  • Bachelor’s Degree or higher in related field; or equivalent combination of education, experience or training

  • Deep subject matter expertise in styling for photography and video, focused on eCommerce photography

  • Proven, exceptional talent for understanding both performance and lifestyle sportswear styling and the ability to make those ideas a reality on set every day

  • Online portfolio that demonstrates broad experience in styling for both on-figure apparel photography and still-life (off-figure) photography

  • Deep and demonstrable experience with on-set standards, best practices, and demands

  • An instinctual devotion to trends and emerging brands, with an insider’s perspective on the apparel and footwear markets

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. 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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