Footwear Designer

Work options: Hybrid

Onsite: Mon-Thurs

Title: Footwear Designer

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 6-month contract

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.

Who You’ll Work With

As a footwear designer in WOMEN’S TRAINING, you will be working hand-in-hand with a large project team of different professionals (engineers, researchers, scientists, marketing, testing, sustainability, materials, costing, etc.) and collaborating within the design community (product designers, materials, color, graphics, computational, etc.). You will work under the direction of our Senior Design Director, as well as other functional leaders, to ensure alignment across all sectors.

Who We Are Looking For

As a Footwear Designer in Nike WOMEN’S TRAINING, you will help bring industry-leading innovative footwear designs from concept to reality. We value strong, style forward insights and passion for our consumers in providing them with style forward iconic designs to serve their performance needs.

• Bachelor's degree in industrial design, a related field or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• Previous experience designing and developing innovative footwear
• Positive personality and energy
• Ability to translate consumer knowledge and insights into product solutions and narratives
• Knowledge of form, color, materials, human factors, related to elevating the consumer experience
• Motivated and hardworking while bringing others along
• Ability to drive a vision and lead/influence others
• Open minded, good listener, receptive to candid feedback and diverse points of view
• Ability to action against feedback to explore and deliver a wide range of options
• Speaks up with courage for self and the team
• Collaborator with a skill in connecting the dots
• Extraordinary teammate, and humble leader
• Catalyst to make connections with other Design groups
• Contribute and align to shared team culture and behaviors
• Lead + drive partnerships beyond the Design function (Marketing, Engineering, Development, etc.)
• Strong Photoshop, Illustrator skills
• Must be able to build accurate 2D technical drawings (tech packs)
• Cobbling and prototyping skills are a plus
• 3D design programs experience is a plus
• Strong sketching, illustration, and rendering skills
• Solid knowledge of manufacturing processes and materials
• Knowledge and experience with sustainable design and manufacturing are a plus
• Experienced with presentation programs: Keynote, PowerPoint, Acrobat, etc.
  
  

What You’ll Work On

In WOMEN’S TRAINING, you will design innovative footwear to meet consumers’ performance as well as style needs. You will collaborate with many project teammates in areas like development, engineering, marketing, testing, color design, material design/development, and graphic design to bring the shoe from concept to market. With each project, you are encouraged to also participate and present the work in formal and informal reviews.