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Jordan Design is where creative possibility meets purpose. It’s a place for builders, boundary-breakers, and vision-setters; people who move with conviction, think originally, and create work shaped by real experience and cultural depth. Our team thrives when imagination, discipline, and collaboration come together. We look for leaders who bring their full creative voice, who understand the communities that inspire us, and who are driven to shape the future for the next generation of Jordan athletes and fans.

***This posting is for both the Director, Energy Ignite Product Design, Global Jordan and Director, Energy Sublabel & BP Product Design, Global Jordan roles***

To excel in our Director, Energy Ignite, Product Design role, you must hold a passion for street, sport and fashion cultures and/or adjacent sub-cultures and communities. Jordan Energy greatly values a keen sense and deep understanding of the communities, worlds and spaces that embody originality, self-expression and a mindset of defiance. Platforming the rhythm, language, icons, and unsung heroes and their global influence, this role will inspire and challenge traditional convention in translating these points of connection into ideas and concepts that honor the past, elevate the present, and ignite the future of sport and style.

To excel in our Director, Energy Sublabel & Brand Partnerships Product Design role, you must hold a passion for action sports, non-traditional sports, and/or adjacent sub-cultures and communities. Jordan Energy greatly values a keen sense and deep understanding of the cultures that embody originality, performance and a mindset of defiance. Platforming the rhythm, language, icons, and unsung heroes and their global influence, this role will inspire and challenge traditional convention in translating these points of connection into ideas and concepts that honor the past, elevate the present, and ignite the future of sport and style.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Director, Energy Ignite, Product Design, Jordan

Based in Beaverton, OR, as the Director, Energy Ignite, Product Design you will be a part of the Global Jordan Energy team. This team is responsible for taking risks that drive relevance for all Jordan Sports, while exploring new spaces to incubate meaningful, net-new growth opportunities.

As the Director, Energy Ignite, Product Design, you have a passion for innovation and an eye for blending sport culture and irreverent style. You should be skilled and experienced at driving a design vision and direction and strategy, while remaining hands-on in product creation, ideation and the product development process. You thrive in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environments and embraces ambiguity and a dynamic workflow. You navigate diverse personalities with ease and can bring a partner’s vision to life while staying true to our brand ethos and identity.

You listen deeply, respond quickly, and step into gaps without being asked. You bring purpose to your craft and take pride in delivering work that is both imaginative and impactful. You know how to rally cross-functional partners around a compelling vision, and do it with clarity, ownership, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. You are a creative leader and teammate who elevates the room.

You know how to push an idea further, clarify what’s missing, and bring structure to ambiguity. You work confidently across disciplines; from trend discovery and experiential direction to product storytelling, graphic language, and moving image. You stay tapped into the communities and cultures that drive the game and bring that fluency into every concept you touch.

• A seasoned Design Director with a proven track record in collaborations and partnerships, fluent across footwear, apparel, accessories, and lifestyle. Comfortable leading complex, high-visibility projects with external collaborators.
• A cultural translator and creative diplomat; equally adept at working with celebrities, entertainers, artists, retailers, and brands, while protecting brand integrity and shaping work that feels authentic and real.
• A leader with exceptional taste and point of view, capable of setting the creative bar, giving clear direction, and knowing when to push, refine, or edit to achieve world-class outcomes.
• A systems thinker who thrives in ambiguity, able to navigate multiple timelines, stakeholders, and constraints while maintaining clarity, momentum, and creative excellence.
• A confident, empathetic people leader who builds trust and develops talent, creating environments where designers feel challenged, supported, and inspired to do the best work of their careers.
• A strategic creative partner who understands how design, culture, and commerce intersect, and can balance long-term brand equity with near-term business impact.
• Naturally curious, well-connected, and deeply plugged into culture, from music and fashion to sport, art, and emerging creative communities, using insight (not trends) to inform decisions.
• Comfortable operating at a senior level, presenting to and influencing executives, and representing the brand externally with clarity, credibility, and conviction.
• Obsessing connection with consumers who thrive in cultural alchemy, taking risks that reflect the mindset of today’s youth, shift the industry and change the world.
• Showcasing an innovative mindset; the ability to think outside the box and drive new ideas from inception to reality.
• Producing outputs that have ‘Never Been Done Before’ within our Industry.
• Partnering with external entities, collaborators, entertainment and key retail partner doors to bring to life,

• Blending ideas with counterparts across functions, and all Jordan Sports; Streetwear, Basketball, American Football, Golf, Training, Global Football, Baseball, etc.
• Providing functional expertise to execute Seasonal Concepts that blur the lines of Streetwear, Sport and New Cultural Spaces for Jordan Brand.

Director, Energy Sublabel & BP Product Design, Jordan

Based in Beaverton, OR, as the Director, Energy Sublabel & Brand Partnerships Product Design you will be a part of the Global Jordan Energy team. This team is responsible for taking risks that drive relevance for all Jordan Sports, while exploring new spaces to incubate meaningful, net-new growth opportunities.

As the Director, Energy Sublabel & Brand Partnerships Product Design, you have a passion for innovation and an eye for blending sport culture and irreverent style. You should be skilled and experienced at driving a design vision and direction and strategy, while remaining hands-on in product creation, ideation and the product development process. You thrive in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environments and embraces ambiguity and a dynamic workflow. You navigate diverse personalities with ease and can bring a partner’s vision to life while staying true to our brand ethos and identity.

You listen deeply, respond quickly, and step into gaps without being asked. You bring purpose to your craft and take pride in delivering work that is both imaginative and impactful. You know how to rally cross-functional partners around a compelling vision, and do it with clarity, ownership, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. You are a creative leader and teammate who elevates the room.

You know how to push an idea further, clarify what’s missing, and bring structure to ambiguity. You work confidently across disciplines; from trend discovery and experiential direction to product storytelling, graphic language, and moving image. You stay tapped into the communities and cultures that drive the game and bring that fluency into every concept you touch.

• A seasoned Design Director with a proven track record in partnerships, fluent across footwear, apparel, accessories, and lifestyle. Comfortable leading complex, high-visibility projects with internal and external collaborators.
• A cultural translator and creative diplomat; equally adept at working with celebrities, entertainers, artists, retailers, and brands, while protecting brand integrity and shaping work that feels authentic and real.
• A leader with exceptional taste and point of view, capable of setting the creative bar, giving clear direction, and knowing when to push, refine, or edit to achieve world-class outcomes.
• A systems thinker who thrives in ambiguity, able to navigate multiple timelines, stakeholders, and constraints while maintaining clarity, momentum, and creative excellence.
• An entrepreneurial thinker and builder with experience creating and scaling categories from the ground up; able to define vision, establish design language, and bring new product platforms to life with limited precedent, high ambiguity, and strong creative conviction.
• A confident, empathetic people leader who builds trust and develops talent, creating environments where designers feel challenged, supported, and inspired to do the best work of their careers.
• A strategic creative partner who understands how design, culture, and commerce intersect, and can balance long-term brand equity with near-term business impact.
• Naturally curious, well-connected, and deeply plugged into culture, from music and fashion to sport, art, and emerging creative communities, using insight (not trends) to inform decisions.
• Comfortable operating at a senior level, presenting to and influencing executives, and representing the brand externally with clarity, credibility, and conviction.
• Obsessing connection with consumers who thrive in cultural alchemy, taking risks that reflect the mindset of today’s youth, shift the industry and change the world.
• Showcasing an innovative mindset; the ability to think outside the box and drive new ideas from inception to reality.
• Producing outputs that have ‘Never Been Done Before’ within our Industry.
• Partnering with external entities, collaborators, entertainment and key retail partner doors to bring to life,

• Blending ideas with counterparts across functions, and all Jordan Sports; Streetwear, Basketball, American Football, Golf, Training, Global Football, Baseball, etc.
• Providing functional expertise to execute Seasonal Concepts that blur the lines of Streetwear, Sport and New Cultural Spaces for Jordan Brand.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

Director, Energy Ignite, Product Design, Jordan

The future belongs not to those who repeat the past, but to those who dare to reimagine it. To create something that matters. You are a brand guardian who is curious, connected, active participants in various subculture communities. You see unique opportunities to take risks, expand perception, celebrate brand values, accelerate the business and advance the notion of sport culture through thought provoking intersections with cultural influencers.

In this leadership role you will develop the strategy to grow and maintain Jordan’s presence in the zeitgeist and ensure that we are always at the center of the intersection of court, culture and community. These responsibilities include:

• Own the vision and design execution for all brand collaborations and partnerships, leading end-to-end design across footwear, apparel, accessories and future product expression types, ensuring every partnership feels intentional, culturally relevant, and unmistakably on-brand.
• Shaping and driving design direction across this Ignite division of Jordan Energy.
• Functioning in a player/coach capacity, both designing and leading your design team to execute product concepts that push boundaries and carve out new spaces for both Jordan Energy and the Jordan Brand at large.
• Driving vision, championing product integrity, innovation, and performance as you oversee key initiatives from concept through execution.
• Developing design strategies and ensuring excellence through advanced concepts.
• Managing presentations and communicating design visions to a variety of audiences, ensuring that all projects meet our high standards of excellence and timelines.
• Be the driving force behind bringing strategic innovation into the category, always looking to pioneer new spaces and drive forward-thinking design, all while continually elevating the superior caliber of leadership behaviors and team player mindset we hold ourselves accountable to, daily.
• Own the vision and design execution for all brand collaborations and partnerships, leading end-to-end design across footwear, apparel, accessories and future product expression types, ensuring every partnership feels intentional, culturally relevant, and unmistakably on-brand.
• Translate partner narratives into compelling product storytelling systems, collaborating closely with external creatives, celebrities, entertainers, key retailers, and brands etc. to co-author concepts that feel authentic to both parties while elevating the brand’s cultural point of view.
• Lead and inspire cross-category design teams, setting creative direction, design standards, and ways of working that enable cohesive, high-impact collaboration stories across multiple product platforms and timelines.
• Act as a senior creative partner to internal stakeholders and external collaborators, navigating complexity, aligning vision, and balancing creative ambition with commercial realities, operational constraints, and brand integrity.
• Push the boundaries of collaboration as a cultural and business lever, identifying new partnership opportunities, emerging creative voices, and unconventional formats that expand the brand’s reach, relevance, and long-term equity. 
• Build and steward a network of external creative talent, from designers and artists to studios and cultural operators; cultivating long-term relationships that continuously feed the brand’s collaboration pipeline and creative relevance.

Director, Energy Sublabel & BP Product Design, Jordan

The future belongs not to those who repeat the past, but to those who dare to reimagine it. To create something that matters. You are a brand guardian who is curious, connected, active participants in various subculture communities. You see unique opportunities to take risks, expand perception, celebrate brand values, accelerate the business and advance the notion of sport culture through thought provoking intersections with cultural influencers.

In this leadership role you will develop the strategy to grow and maintain Jordan’s presence in the zeitgeist and ensure that we are always at the center of the intersection of court, culture and community. These responsibilities include:

• Own the vision and design execution for sublabel and brand partnerships, leading end-to-end design across footwear, apparel, accessories and future product expression types, ensuring every partnership feels intentional, culturally relevant, and unmistakably on-brand.
• Shaping and driving design direction across this Sublabel and Brand Partnerships division of Jordan Energy.
• Functioning in a player/coach capacity, both designing and leading your design team to execute product concepts that push boundaries and carve out new spaces for both Jordan Energy and the Jordan Brand at large.
• Driving vision, championing product integrity, innovation, and performance as you oversee key initiatives from concept through execution.
• Developing design strategies and ensuring excellence through advanced concepts.
• Managing presentations and communicating design visions to a variety of audiences, ensuring that all projects meet our high standards of excellence and timelines.
• Be the driving force behind bringing strategic innovation into the category, always looking to pioneer new spaces and drive forward-thinking design, all while continually elevating the superior caliber of leadership behaviors and team player mindset we hold ourselves accountable to, daily.
• Translate both internal sublabels and brand partner narratives into compelling product storytelling systems, while also collaborating closely with external brand(s), to co-author concepts that feel authentic to both parties while elevating the brand’s cultural point of view.
• Lead and inspire cross-category design teams, setting creative direction, design standards, and ways of working that enable cohesive, high-impact collaboration stories across multiple product platforms and timelines.
• Act as a senior creative partner to internal stakeholders and external collaborators, navigating complexity, aligning vision, and balancing creative ambition with commercial realities, operational constraints, and brand integrity

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

Director, Energy Ignite, Product Design, Jordan

Director, Energy Sublabel & BP Product Design, Jordan

These roles report to the Sr. Global Creative Director of Jordan Energy. You will partner closely with the General Manager of Ignite and Sublabels & Brand Partnerships, respectively, along with cross-functional leads across Brand and Brand Creative, Entertainment Marketing, Product Management and Merchandising. Additionally, you will partner with leads across Streetwear and Sport Fields of Play, leading and fostering relationships with external partners to create a cohesive vision across all categories. Building strong partnerships within the design community and cross-functional teams will be central to your success. You'll foster a culture of collaboration, encouraging your team to explore new ideas and take calculated risks to generate unseen possibilities.

WHAT YOU BRING TO JORDAN

A successful candidate will be expected to clearly demonstrate and articulate experience in the essential requirements below, to be considered. Candidates that meet these criteria will then be assessed based on the competencies also outlined below.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• Strong inter-personal, communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and influence cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of industry-leading executions most-relevant to our Jordan Energy Consumer Muses.

• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in a design-related role, including 2 years in a management/leadership role preferred.
• Footwear design experience preferred.
• Passion for and/or knowledge of action sports, non-traditional sports, and adjacent sub-cultures and communities.
• Experience exploring new technical and aesthetic innovations across performance and style.
• Self-starter with innovation mindset who thrives in fast-paced, agile culture, embraces change, and can navigate ambiguity.
• Track record working with a broad range of collaboration partners across industries and ability to influence different personalities and perspectives to achieve high-quality results.
• Clear and persuasive communication skills, both visual and verbal, with the ability to present and stand behind your concepts.
• Ability to orchestrate creative work across a network of studios and teams, keeping alignment without losing momentum.
• A resilient, solutions-oriented mentality with the flexibility to adapt quickly as business needs shift, without sacrificing creative integrity.

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