Nike, Global Sports Apparel, Advanced Concepts, Sustainability Designer




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 diversitv and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and
constantly evolving game.

NIKE, Inc. designs the future. At NIKE, Inc. designers chase their curiosities and build what's next, shaping the culture and advancing human potential. The Design teams include artists, inventors, and specialists, all with different focuses, including color and material experts, and apparel, footwear, and graphic designers. Nike designers look to the future, aggressively pursuing materials, ideas, and forms that further elevate the athlete experience, raise the bar for modern stle, and reduce environmental impact.

Global Sports Apparel (GSA) delivers product design to Athletes around the world, at every level of sport. Creating solutions that solve against Athlete insights to enhance pertormance and define the future of sport.




WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As our Apparel designer 2, Sustainable Product in GSA, you'll create the future ot sports performance through innovative aesthetic execution and with a solution-oriented sustainability focus. Bringing to life the seasonal category creative direction through advanced apparel design with solutions that are fueled by athlete/consumer insights and a considered environmentally friendly approach. The candidate needs to have a passion for sustainability, innovation, performance apparel & sport. Deep knowledge of 2D & 3D digital tools, including CLO or a similar program. You'll need strong communication skills with teammates across the organization, including expert listening, collaborative problem solving, & deep emotional intelligence. The role demands big picture thinking, with regards to product relevance, product positioning, timing & collections. We're looking for a candidate who's curious, inquisitive, and motivated to discover new sustainable design processes and methods of make. You'll need to consistently demonstrate process proficiency through best practices, visualization and communication of ideas.




WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you'll be working with Design Directors & Senior Design Innovators to create original Sustainable product designs and concepts or refresh existing products reflecting Nikes Move to Zero design philosophy. You'll execute all product details including construction detail, form, style, fit, performance, trims, etc. You'll need to communicate across functions such as Design, Development and Product management. At times you will present internally and externally, with mentorship from Senior designers. Producing presentation materials that optimally communicate the concept behind the line and the intended Sustainable value proposition. This role will require you to build awareness of current sustainability and consumer trends, color, and sports-related products through market research to stay ahead of consumer needs and expectations. Daily/weekly support for the design team, as needed, outside of assigned product workload.




WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

This designer will report into a Senior Design Innovator and will collaborate closely with technical design, product management & multiple design and Sustainable product teams. The role will have no direct reports.




WHAT YOU BRING

Bachelor's Degree in Apparel Design and 1-5 years equivalent combination of education and experience and training.

Ability to apply and perform design skills such as: drawing/sketching, ideation, digital product creation and visual presentation development.

Familiarity with current sustainability and consumer trends.

Basic understanding of pattern making, draping, materials, trims, garment fit, garment construction, and manufacturing.

Basic knowledge of the apparel industry, circular product creation, marketing principles, and development process.

Driven to create meaningful performance led innovation and willingness to adapt through a continuous learning mindset.

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Hand made Norris Lake, Tennessee red clay.

Digging red mud out from the shore of Norris Lake, a reservoir in Tennessee and working it into a cone 04 firing body. Step by step transforming the clay by soaking, mixing, sifting, drying, and kneading. Developing a concept for the final collection of pots to compliment the natural beauty of the clay paired with the hand built uniqueness.