WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a Senior Designer, Women's Training, to create seasonal design concepts for Nike Women's Apparel. In this role, you will utilize your outstanding design skills to create original, innovative designs that accurately reflect Nike's design philosophies and lead the industry. Through consumer connection you will identify leading trends and translate them into meaningful products that resonate with our consumers.
You have a passion for innovation, performance apparel and sport, with a strong aesthetic sense, and experience in Women's Training. You have experience in material development, performance technologies, and performance garment build. You are a self-starter, highly motivated with a problem-solving approach, and focused on producing high-quality work on a deadline.
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You will bring your design mind, creativity, and technical skills to our design community to create compelling apparel solutions fueled by athlete/consumer insights. You'll need strong communication skills with teammates across the organization, including active listening, collaborative problem solving, and deep emotional intelligence. The role demands big picture thinking, with regards to product relevance, product positioning, timing and collections. You'll need to constantly demonstrate process proficiency through best practices, visualization and communication of ideas.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
If this is you, you'll be working in a collaborative design community, to create original product designs reflecting Nike's design philosophy. You will lead trend, concept, sketch, and present designs within seasonal collections from initial concept to completion. You'll execute all product details including construction, form, style, fit, performance, materials, etc. In this role you will work closely with the entire design team to deliver head-to-toe looks that are focused on sport innovation, with a strong eye for style and trend.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
This designer will report into a Senior Director, and work alongside a team of designers in across multiple women's sport apparel collections. Additionally, you will partner internally and cross-functionally with our Product Management, Sourcing, Material Development, and Tech Development teams across the organization. The role will have no direct reports.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor's degree in Apparel/Fashion Design or related. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- 3 plus years in Apparel Design, ideally with an emphasis on sport performance
- Outstanding ability to apply and perform foundational design skills, including illustrating, creating technical sketches, understanding of pattern making, materials selection, tech pack and BOM creation, etc
- Passion and understanding of current and emerging design trends in sport and bra markets
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, with well-developed visual presentation skills (3D design knowledge a plus)
- Strong knowledge of peformance materials, trims, fit, garment construction, and manufacturing processes
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively communicate to a wide range of audiences
- Strong ability to collaborate across teams
- Ability to exercise high degree of professionalism
- Accustomed to working in a rapidly changing, high growth environment and to lead multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes
- Embody the passion to work on innovation and style
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.