Product Designer - Specialized

Title: Product Designer - Specialized 2

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 4 months 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.

The nature of the work is focused on research and development of products from conception to retail to meet the needs of accounts and consumers.

• Ideation & Visioning - Supports new ways of thinking about aspects of performance based products that result in growth opportunities and competitive advantages in the marketplace.
• Develops ideas that are consistent with the vision for new products by collaborating with product creation on the genesis of new product concepts for all Nike business units.
• Research/Engineering - utilizes developing research skills and methodology, along with knowledge of the consumer, business, and performance requirements, to develop insights which feed into the development of advanced product concepts.
• Utilizes these insights to elevate product through the use of new technologies or construction processes.
• Participates in delivery of proof of concept. Identifies key elements of product construction Materials and processes.
• Engineers prototypes.
• Demonstrates a high level of initiative driving ideation independently.
• Project Management - Participates in innovation projects turning concept ideation into reality by working in, or with, multi-disciplinary teams to include product creation, manufacturing, and 3rd party vendors.
• Communication - assists in preparation of reports and presenting results/new ideas at the department level.

• Bachelors Degree
• Minimum of 2-4 years directly relevant work experience
• Note:
  
  One of the following alternatives may be accepted:
• PhD or Law + 1 yr;
• Masters + 0-3 yrs;
• Associates degree + 1-3 yrs;
• High School + 3-5 yrs.