Sr. Designer - Story Design

Title: Sr. Designer - Story Design

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 4 months contract

Nike seeks a Senior Design Expert for Retail Experience Design:
An innovator, who will support and develop experience creative direction for Nike’s Global Direct retail ecosystem, with online to offline connection. A strategic, collaborative and creative team leader, who will develop impactful / scalable creative solutions for immersive retail experiences and how these manifest as worlds. Always looking to expand the possibilities of immersive environments to build creative solutions that reflect Nike’s design ethos and improve the consumer retail experience.

You have a track record of innovative creation of store architecture and environment and emerging technology to build impactful stores, spaces, consumer engagement and interaction. You can work across several design subject areas such as Brand Design, Environmental Design, Engagement Design and store journeys with ease. You ideate creative concepts, illustrate your ideas and be hands on as you lead projects to completion.

• Supports and partners with Global Retail Sr Creative Director to lead retail experience creative direction, design direction, and design continuity.
• Lead a design process of clear ideation. Focusing on strategy and exploration of architecture, environments, materiality and use of the environment.
• Ensures project goals and priorities align with Nike retail store, brand and business strategies (art and science).
• Encourage a studio that is constantly seek new and innovative ways to design consumer experiences through architecture, materials, fixture, environment, experience and 3d mediums.
• Directs the development of presentation materials that effectively communicate creative direction and design concepts to all levels of leadership and partners.
• Collaborate with peers, design counterparts, internal partners (Nike Store, development, Brand, Retail Brand, Brand Creative, Digital, etc.) and external partners to ensure feasibility of designs and functional needs are met.
• Actively gain knowledge and experience regarding Nike’s design ethos, the Nike matrix, products and processes.
• Drives education and inspiration, sharing knowledge and exposure to current and future trends influencing the innovation of consumer experiences and technology.
• Fosters innovative thinking, collaboration, and teamwork.
• Leads design processes to ensure results, timelines and budgets are met.
• Strong ability to work upstream, effectively elevate strategic concerns, assert influence in final outcomes.
• You may travel 10 % of the time.

Under the direction of a Retail Design Sr. Creative Director, and in partnership with peers, you will realize innovative, original experience design, retail experience environments, fixture and displays and spatial solutions from content to application techniques for retail stores. You will collaborate with internal and external design teams to complete multiple projects and ensure the creative intent, design results, timelines and budgets are met.

You will partner with the Architecture, Storytelling design and Geo retail design partners to bring retail design excellence.

• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive, technically sophisticated design experience in architectural, experiential or brand design and a demonstrated ability to apply these skills in ways that elevate brand excellence.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in architecture, industrial, or environmental design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training.
• Showed strength in managing a design project or studio in the delivery of progressively complex projects of scale, budget, and size.
• Proven track record of good judgment and ability to contribute meaningfully to the determination of policy and strategy.
• Proven track record of motivating teams, managing ambiguity, and effectively collaborating in decision-making.
• Tried expert in applying and performing design skills, including concepting, drawing/sketching, architecture, ideation, color theory, materials, texture, and spatial design in…