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.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
The Footwear Energy Team creates culturally relevant, groundbreaking footwear that surprises our most discerning consumers. The team delivers Nike’s pinnacle expressions across collaborations, fashion collections, and athlete-led initiatives. We routinely partner with athletes and influencers to create performance and lifestyle products through dynamic, evolving processes.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The Lead Footwear Product Developer drives product creation from concept through commercialization. This role provides project and process direction within fast-paced, close-to-market development environments while ensuring each project meets design intent, quality, performance, cost, sustainability, and timing expectations.
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, material development, engineering, physical sciences or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- 6+ years of Footwear Product Creation experience
- Background in engineering, material development, and footwear manufacturing is a plus.
- Lead footwear product development projects at an accelerated pace, through all phases of product creation.
- Leverage deep technical knowledge across lasts, uppers, materials, tooling, costing, engineering, testing, and manufacturing.
- Motivated and driven self-starter who can exhibit strong project management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Communicate effectively across functions, geographies, and leadership levels.
- Demonstrate resilient leadership with high tolerance for ambiguity and changing priorities.
- Build strong partnerships across global, culturally diverse teams.
- Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution to deliver product excellence.
- Travel up to 10% as needed.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
This role sits within Nike’s Product Creation Team—a collective of developers, engineers material experts, and testing analysts obsessed with raising the bar of footwear product excellence. The Lead Developer partners closely with Design, Marketing, Product Creation and Innovation teams, and collaborates daily with both onshore and offshore manufacturing partners to bring bold ideas to life.
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.
