Lead, Digital Product Designer

About the position

Nike does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It's a place to explore your potential, obliterate boundaries, and push 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. Nike Digital Product Design executes thoughtful design solutions for business and consumer problems at scale. We craft the overall form and function of our digital products - defining the user experiences and interfaces for Nike's internal and consumer-facing experiences.

Responsibilities

• Thinking big, innovating and driving design execution across a complex product domain, taking ownership of large, ambiguous initiatives
• Designing incredibly polished work that represents the Nike brand and product experience through wireframes, visual comps, flows and prototypes
• Inspiring new ways of thinking and exploring the unknown using fresh approaches to design problems while applying your knowledge of standard methodologies and user-centered design principles to build simple, beautiful and seamless workflows
• Developing design solutions using participatory and iterative techniques including user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, and design thinking brainstorms and workshops
• Rapidly iterating and refining design concepts - from initial briefing through final delivery
• Mentoring and providing helpful feedback to fellow designers and interns to uplevel their craft and skills
• Evangelizing the Nike brand and driving initiatives that strengthen Nike's design culture internally

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience with end-to-end digital product design with proven experience in visual design and UX
• A bachelor's degree or any combination of education, training and experience in design, UX/UI design, human-computer interaction or a related field
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, data science, experimentation and execution (expert in one or more areas)
• Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise
• Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based design process
• Proven collaborator with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers and marketers
• Strong design process; ability to contribute new processes or enhancements to cross-functional teams
• Experience working with consumer research and data
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Exceptional time management skills - providing accurate estimations and often helping the team deliver early
• Ability to influence or create design patterns or standards that are adopted by other teams
• Highly proficient with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Principle and Keynote
• Cross-platform design experience (enterprise platforms, web, Android, iOS, email, etc.), and ability to approach problems from the consumer perspective-internal or external
• Ability to communicate a vision for the work in a way others can relate to and buy into
• Ability to establish a holistic look and feel between all pieces of a large project
• Experience launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization
• Passion for the Nike brand, sport and for creating high-quality work
• A fascination with innovation and technology and a solid understanding of digital tools and trends

Benefits

• Generous total rewards package
• Casual work environment
• Diverse and inclusive culture
• Electric atmosphere for professional development