WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH  
This role will directly report into the VP, Creative Director Running, while regularly partnering with cross functional Apparel product leadership teams across Create and Expression, Apparel Design Excellence, Innovation, Concepts, Brand Design and key downstream business partners to lead driving a culture of creativity that aligns to the broader Nike Running creative direction.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR   
We’re looking for an outstanding Sr Design Director, Running Women’s Apparel Product Design - to combine their Apparel design experience, problem solving abilities, team leadership, relationship building, management skills, critical thinking, and creativity to help lead the future of the Running Apparel industry.

The ideal candidate needs to be a highly creative team leader, setting aspirational Running apparel product design directions to inspire and lead the team of design talents at Nike Running. Recognize and build high quality Women’s Apparel product designs and lead a multi-disciplinary design teams including concepts, product, 3D, material, color and graphic designers.

This person will be passionate about elevating all types of running experience by meeting the needs of both the elite and everyday runners through the impact of “Only-Nike” style & performance experience, culturally connected influences and memorable narratives.

As a creative leader, you will motivate the team, celebrate wins, and cultivate a climate that encourages an open collaborative creativity through equity, inclusion and diversity.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON  

If this is you, you will establish and nurture the creative vision & design directions for Nike Running, Women’s Apparel product creations and PROMO across Racing and Road.

You will champion a culturally connected, inspiring creative vision with emphasis on elevating the apparel product designs showcasing the forward thinking innovation, and performance experience that will set the new pace within the Running market to set the trend and lead the industry.

You will build, hold, and maintain the best standard of practice and design excellence, ensuring the highest standard of quality, consistency, accuracy while pushing the boundaries of creativity!

Seasonally, you will partner closely with Running Expression, Sr Design Director to evaluate consumer trends, macro global insights and marketplace analysis to lead the team in delivering innovative & craft obsessed designs through both physical and digital creative methods to cross pollinate creative team synergy across product, color, materials, and graphics.

You’ll be deeply involved in developing design strategies and ensuring excellence through advanced concepts. Additionally, you’ll manage presentations and communicate design visions to a variety of audiences, ensuring that all projects meet our high standards and timelines.

You will lead category design resources, processes and relationships to ensure project standards and timelines are met. You will also build and run your own seasonal/annual project workload and will be asked at times to extend outside of the primary activity of Running to support the larger Nike Design community. In addition, you'll work in conjunction with design leadership to develop design and optimally handle the annual goal-setting and evaluation process of your team.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Apparel Design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 15+ years of relevant work experience in apparel design
• In depth experience in the Apparel field, with a focus on performance
• Enterprise leadership and experience leading creative teams and managing designers
• Proven ability leading large teams with varied strengths with a team first approach crafting a strong team culture and connectivity
• Leads as a strategic creative partner to cross-category partners
• Ability to think strategically about product relevance, product positioning, timing, and collections
• Strong knowledge of fashion, design, and Lifestyle trends
• Ability to build seasonal concepts, and provide the team with both short and long-term vision

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.