Beaverton, USA
Senior designer – retail fixtures and environments
at Nike
Nike is hiring a senior designer for retail fixtures and environments to join its team in Beaverton, US.
Nike 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.
Nike’s storytellers, marketing and communication sets the brand tone. A creative force of specialists tell Nike’s stories of innovation and sport through advertising, brand strategy, digital engagement and product presentation. Using channels ranging from retail stores to social media, marketing and communication teams connect the science and art of Nike innovations to the hearts and minds of athletes around the world.
The brand creative retail team is the catalyst for retail innovation. We are creative problem solvers, combining strategy and innovation, we craft physical experiences that connect athletes to the future of sport and commerce.
This team crafts the vision for all Nike stores globally by actualising the voice of the brand at retail and obsessing the details of all physical elements across all customer touch points from macro architecture to all micro brand stories within the store.
Who we are looking for
Nike seeks a senior designer for retail fixtures and environments who will support consumer-led global retail concepts and the evolution of the Nike retail business. They will build and develop impactful and scalable design solutions for immersive retail environments. This designer will collaborate with internal and external design teams to complete individual projects by using design processes and standard methodologies to ensure the creative intent, design deliverables, timelines and budgets are met.
What you will work on
If this is you, you will build, refine and evolve the fixture and environmental design components across the full Nike stores portfolio, you will be working across different project stages for interior spaces with a focus on fixture design across multiple concepts. This position requires a forward thinking, detail-oriented and design-minded creative, that builds from the global creative direction for design development and generates implementation standards for consistent execution throughout projects. You will work independently and with a team to develop and lead all fixture and 3D environmental components, factoring in the needs of the consumer, the brand and our business partners. You will communicate and present design concepts to the creative director and build 3D models and details that optimally communicate design intent as well as produce project production.
Who you will work with
Under the direction of a design director, you will collaborate in the development of innovative and original retail fixture programs that reflect Nike’s design ethos and improve the consumer retail experience. You will deliver thoughtful fixture design solutions that meet the business and creative requirements to elevate Nike’s product storytelling and display needs as well as small-scale environmental moments such as pop-ups. In this role, you will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams across Nike as well as external design partners, fabrication agencies, store design and marketing teams.
You may travel five to fifteen per cent of the time.
What you bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in architecture, industrial or product design and eight-plus years design experience
- retail design industry/environments experience preferred; retail environments, concepts and programmes, fixture design
- extensive knowledge of design processes
- advanced knowledge of computer systems (SketchUp, Enscape, Adobe Suite, Grasshopper, ACAD); After Effects, Twin Motion, etc are a plus
- ability to sketch design ideas and visually communicate concept development thoughts ideation
- knowledge and sensitivity to trends influencing design in general, and in furniture design, product innovation, fashion and athletics specifically
- strong oral and written communications skills including meeting facilitation and presentations
- strong ability to optimally communicate concepts and design intent to senior creative team
- proficient in presentation and collaboration tools (Keynote, Miro, Slack, etc)
- ability to expertly screen and lead contractors/external vendors including design and production studios/agencies
- ability to develop collaborative relationships across teams, functions and geographies
- workstream management
- team management and delegation
Nike is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanising mission – to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.
Nike is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status or disability.
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