The annual base salary for this position ranges from $97,200.00 in our lowest geographic market to $217,700.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience.
Information about benefits can be found here.
Lead Footwear Product Developer, NA Express Lane
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
As a member of the North America, Global Express Lane team, you will collaborate with key footwear functional partners: Color/Material Design, Material Development, Product Management, Partner PCC and PMO Teams, Global Lifestyle Product Teams, Global Sourcing and Planning, and Operations Teams. You’ll need to navigate the Nike matrix to ensure that our processes model and match Global Footwear Development standard methodologies for product excellence. You are the key point of contact between our PCC/PMO partners and WHQ product team and must ensure that communication during the product development process is complete, clear, and accurate. This role reports to the Footwear Development Director for North America, Global Express Lane.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a Lead Footwear Product Developer to be an integral part of our North America, Global Express Lane Footwear Product Creation Team and help drive product excellence for the North America consumer! As a Lead Footwear Product Developer, this person will provide project and process direction, within the project team, at an accelerated pace and close to market. The ideal candidate needs to have demonstrated project management, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a product development environment. In addition, we are looking for people that are self-starters, quick learners, clear communicators, great teammates, and exhibit strong leadership skills. As a member of the North America, Global Express Lane team, this person will effectively build relationships, lead, and interact with teams across Nike Footwear Product Creation and with teams comprising of diverse cultures across various geographies.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
As a Lead Footwear Product Developer for North America, Global Express Lane, you will work on Lifestyle footwear models through color, material, and graphic applications, across Men’s, Women’s, and Kids. You will drive product and process excellence, within a collaborative team environment, for your assigned projects as well as converting a project brief and 2D design tech pack into a 3D footwear sample that meets the needs of the North America consumer and Express Lane business.
We’re looking for you to apply your expert level knowledge and experience to improve product excellence, by identifying and addressing key issues and challenges in construction/manufacturing and engage in all phases of the product process to ensure projects are managed according to critical dates and completed on time, while meeting design intent, performance goals, costing/profitability, sustainability targets, and product integrity requirements.
WHAT YOU BRING
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Bachelor's degree or higher in Marketing, Business, Industrial Design, Engineering, Physical Sciences, or combination of relevant education, experience, and training
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Minimum of 6+ years directly applicable Footwear Development or Engineering work experience across multiple footwear sports/styles.
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Have a solid understanding of the tools supporting and tactically driving the footwear product creation process, best using subject matter experts in footwear lasts, upper patterns, materials, chemistry, bottom tooling, costing, test methodologies, and manufacturing.
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Demonstrated critical experiences in Adopting and Driving Innovation through the INLINE Product Creation Process.
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Demonstrated experience in Driving Product Initiatives and/or Strategy across the greater Footwear Dimensions and/or Divisions.
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Outstanding High-profile communication and influencing skills, with the ability to champion sophisticated projects both cross-functionally and vertically with the organization, including senior leaders.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a keen awareness of the audience, knowing when to go deep into the details when warranted, and when to simplify the sophisticated.
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A highly organized and resilient approach, a high tolerance for ambiguity, with an outstanding ability to seamlessly balance constantly evolving priorities.
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A tried leadership Identity that nurtures partnership, instills trust, encourages, and empowers teammates/peers to ultimately deliver on product excellence.
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Strong understanding of the creation process, including production planning, forecasting, and scheduling to deliver product quality in a timely, efficient, and effective way.
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Ability to travel up to 15% of the time
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
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What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., it’s in our nature to innovate and our mission is to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world [if you have a body, you’re an athlete]. Because we exist to serve athletes, we dare to design the future of sport. To us, innovation is about elevating human potential. We obsess over the needs of athletes of all abilities, using their insights to create products that are beautiful, useful and make all athletes better. To make big leaps, we take big risks. Incremental change won’t get us to where we want to go fast enough. So we pursue moonshots — like developing the first self-lacing shoe, running the first two-hour marathon and committing to 100% renewable energy use in our facilities. We embrace different perspectives — from scientists and designers to coders and quarterbacks — because we know everyone brings unique experiences and ideas to the team. To serve athletes across the hundreds of countries where NIKE does business, we need teams that truly reflect the diversity of our consumers and a culture of inclusivity. We aim to foster inclusion and embrace diversity throughout our business, teams, and culture to create breakthrough innovations, empower teammates to realize their full potential and bring us closer to the communities we serve. NIKE's diverse, high-performing teams around the world are united in purpose and inspired to change the world through sport.
Why Work With Us
With a global footprint, culture of innovation and team-first mentality, we take action to create a future of continual progress for athletes, sport and our world. Whether our job is designing the ultimate sneaker or coding a revolutionary app, we’re united by the same mission: to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.
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