Director, North America Media Relations 

Nike North America Communications — New York, NY 

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, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game. 

At Nike, the Global Communications function is responsible for creating authentic connections with audiences around the globe through sport and athletes. We are a community-minded and purpose-driven team focused on delivering breakthrough innovative brand stories. Together, we inspire action, drive conversation, craft new and engaging ways to motivate athletes* and communities, and protect our corporate reputation and Nike’s brand equity. 

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR 

We’re looking for a Director of Media Relations, North America who will be responsible for building audience-right media strategies, and creating and leading engaging communications storytelling and experiences to help Nike reach new audiences and amplify the brand’s reach. 

This role is responsible for media relations and communications with audiences and communities across the United States and Canada, with a sharp focus on Nike’s lifestyle business — including the brand’s many lifestyle-oriented partnerships and design collaborations — carving resonant storytelling and influence for the Nike brand. 

In addition to building cut-through media strategies, the role will help lead, redefine, cultivate, and develop expressions of sport and style that challenge convention and permeate culture in new and inventive ways. The output of this work should ignite purposeful conversations around Nike’s most powerful stories and help build new, innovative and creative networks. This person will also be responsible for cultivating a forward-looking approach to communications strategies that leverage the ever-changing media and highly engaged consumer landscape. 

The candidate would benefit having a passion for sport and training, an ability to deliver new ways of thinking, and a desire to deepen and evolve Nike's sport-culture relationship with media and consumers. The individual should be proactive, creative, and solutions oriented. Being culturally curious, sport obsessed, having an eye for design and trends, and an appreciation for art and understanding of popular culture is a must. 

Successful candidates will bring a positive, team-oriented mindset, be curious, have strong strategic instincts and exceptional relationship skills, and be able to handle ambiguity to work across a global, corporate matrix. 

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON 

Our work encompasses written, oral, visual, and digital communication. We focus on information and connection — what is created and how it is managed, distributed and consumed to accelerate brand growth. Our audiences include athletes, business partners, consumers, employees, catalysts, collaborators, institutions, retailers, investors, media, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). 

We work across North America and the globe to drive energy through inspiration, innovation and growth stories centered around sport and athletes. We are looking for individuals with the ability to expand the boundaries of communications and define the future, and who can connect, influence and deliver new levels of creative and strategic thinking. 

As a member of the media relations team you’ll contribute at every stage of the planning process and help shape the direction of the broader communications team’s work from the beginning to ensure that strategy and execution move together as part of one integrated approach.