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Lead Brand Creative Professional Asia - Converse

Yesterday Shanghai, China

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Converse is a place to explore potential, break barriers 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 Converse, it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.

Brand Creative is the Art of Storytelling. We are the storytellers, the voice of Converse's heart & soul. It's about telling powerful stories across the entire brand ecosystem, leveraging all existing and new platforms to inspire, enable and engage creator, while driving brand distinction and business impact through insightful understanding of the creators & consumers. We strive to inspire people with stories rooted in youth culture.

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ABOUT OUR TEAM

The Asia Brand Creative team is the guardian of the brand when it comes down to visual, tone & voice and all things creative. This team leads the conception of verbal and visual expressions of the WHY for Converse in the Asia geo (Greater China and Korea). We enable and tell stories of creativity, self-expression and youth progress through brand, product, innovation, purpose, and style expression narratives. The team does this work through making All Star behavior the core of our creative process via mediums of image, film, experience, relationship curation and writing. The result is our audience understanding that Converse is a brand of purpose, people and products that continually spark progress.

Who we are looking for

You are a multidisciplinary creative with experience implementing across various mediums including Art Direction, Graphic Design, Typography, and Spatial Design. You love to collaborate with other creatives and marketing teams and have a proven ability to deliver emotive and innovative work across multiple platforms.

You have proven experience working at scale and can lead complex work streams independently - managing and prioritizing your time as needed. You're outstanding at crafting the detail all the way to delivery and using this experience to teach others around you.

You have a natural passion for art and design and proactively work to keep abreast of all new trends. You enjoy commissioning external talent and experience in briefing and critiquing the work of others. You continuously look for new talent and work to grow your creative network in all areas. You are passionate about new technology and actively work to understand this constantly evolving landscape.

You help the team implement creative across multiple channels, from photo direction, to understanding and working against a narrative, to graphic design, communication, moving image and environmental design (where needed). A successful candidate is versed in digital and retail storytelling, with a strong understanding of creative and design trends across all social platforms, owned ecommerce platforms and retail environments.

What you will work on

  • Partner with Brand planning team for the development of seasonal brand product stories
  • Develop new/relevant ways to do visual storytelling in digital and retail experience
  • Support the creation and update of all seasonal product marketing assets as well as evergreen brand assets
  • Create seasonal visual centers and toolkits that translate complex technical and business concepts into easy-to-understand communication pieces and executional guidance
  • Collaborate with multiple agency relationships across multiple projects with a clear design voice and an unbending creative rigor

Who you will work with

You'll report to the Sr Manager, Brand Creative Asia and work day to day with your peers in Brand Creative, Brand, Entertainment & Energy marketing team, Digital marketing team and Retail marketing team in Asia geo. You'll be a partner to the Global Brand Creative team. You will also collaborate and guide external partners and agencies, including professionals in your respective field.

What you bring

  • 8+ years of progressive and technically sophisticated graphic design and/or art direction experience in branded content at an agency and brand marketing environment, with ideally a strong focus on consumer brands
  • Strong knowledge of current trends in color, graphic design, art, photography, architecture, and experience design - and their application to the sport industry.
  • Adept at applying and performing design skills including concepting, ideation, drawing/sketching, typography, color theory, texture, spatial design in scale, visual presentation development and space planning layouts.
  • Familiar with co-working with design studios and delivering progressively complex projects of varying scales, budgets, and timelines
  • Passion for reinventing the way we approach traditional ways of working. Not scared to challenge the past and in doing so push new creative ways of thinking and working
  • Experience working in and passionate about youth culture including sport, music, fashion and art
  • Excellent knowledge of photographers, stylists, artists and filmmakers
  • Ability to concept and art direct photo shoots at the highest level

Qualifications

  • Business level proficiency in both Mandarin and English language
  • Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design or design-related equivalent
  • Master of PS, AI, Basica knowledge of Sketch-up, 3D

Client-provided location(s): Shanghai, China
Job ID: nike-21272_R-67964
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2025-08-26T18:41:24

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • HSA
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Fertility Benefits
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Sabbatical
    • Leave of Absence
    • Volunteer Time Off
    • Summer Fridays
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Company Equity
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Veteran founded/led