WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a member of the Global Football Footwear Development team, you will inform, drive, and facilitate decisions throughout the product creation process to meet or exceed the product brief and design vision, prioritizing athlete performance and product excellence. You will be an active thought partner with Product Management, Design, Product Testing, Engineering, Materials, and overseas Product Creation Teams to develop processes and tools that push boundaries and create solutions that support the creation of Global Football’s world-class footwear products.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a Principal Footwear Product Developer to be an integral part of our Global Footwear Product Development Team and help drive product excellence for the Global Football consumer! As a Principal Footwear Product Developer, this person will drive project and process direction within the project team, to create highly technical performance product. The ideal candidate needs to have demonstrated strong project management, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a product development environment. In addition, we are looking for people that are self-starters, quick learners, clear communicators, great teammates, and exhibit strong leadership skills. As a member of the Global Football Development team, this person will effectively build relationships, lead, and interact with teams across Nike Footwear Product Creation and with teams comprising of diverse cultures across various countries.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training

• A minimum of 8 years directly relevant work experience

• Experience in Marketing, Business, Industrial Design, Engineering, Physical Sciences or a combination of relevant education, experience, and training

• Have a solid understanding of the tools supporting and tactically driving the footwear product creation process, best using subject matter experts in footwear lasts, upper patterns, materials, chemistry, bottom tooling, injection and plates, costing, test methodologies, and manufacturing.

• Demonstrated critical experiences in Adopting and Driving Innovation through the Product Creation Process.

• Outstanding High-profile communication and influencing skills, with the ability to champion sophisticated projects both cross-functionally and vertically with the organization, including senior leaders.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a keen awareness of the audience, knowing when to go deep into the details when warranted, and when to simplify the sophisticated.

• A highly organized and resilient approach, a high tolerance for ambiguity, with an outstanding ability to seamlessly balance constantly evolving priorities.

• A tried leadership Identity that nurtures partnership, instils trust, encourages, and empowers teammates/peers to ultimately deliver on product excellence.

• Strong understanding of the creation process, including production planning, forecasting, and scheduling to deliver product quality in a timely, efficient, and effective way.

• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

As a Principal Footwear Product Developer for Global Football Footwear, you will work on new innovation and creation of highly technical performance product across Men’s, Women’s, and Kids. You will drive product and process excellence, within a collaborative team environment, for your assigned projects as well as converting a project brief and 2D design tech pack into a physical footwear sample that meets the needs of the respective athlete, consumer, and business.

We’re looking for you to apply your expert level knowledge and experience to improve product excellence, by identifying and addressing key issues and challenges in construction/manufacturing and engage in all phases of the product process to ensure projects are managed according to critical dates and completed on time, while meeting design intent, performance goals, costing/profitability, sustainability targets, and product integrity requirements.

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.