Sr Principal, Product Design Strategic Priorities

Open to remote work except in South Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $166,100.00 in our lowest geographic market to $392,700.00 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.
 

Nike Digital Product Design executes thoughtful design solutions for business and consumer problems at scale. We craft the overall form and function of our digital products — defining the user experiences and interfaces for Nike’s internal and consumer-facing experiences.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You’re the architect of entire product ecosystems and have created and launched more industry-leading products than you can count. You’re a strong generative and visionary designer with exceptional interaction design skills. You not only lead the largest and most complex projects, you push the organization to seek out new opportunities that will have a positive impact on the business. You partner with senior leaders and VPs across the company to create a vision for what a product should be, and then guide and shape the design from beginning to end as it becomes a reality.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Rapidly visualizing, prototyping and exploring multiple product design directions in response to hypotheses – with sharp consideration of the business and technical impacts of the solutions
• Owning large end-to-end initiatives that span multiple teams and outcomes at the forefront of a new product area or discipline
• Defining an entire category of experiences, proposing solutions that drive business objectives, and using design methods to identify new opportunities
• Elevating the role of digital design at Nike and facilitating a dialog/awareness between our org and the external design community
• Inspiring and mentoring other designers and raising the bar through your own work and your team's output
• Driving industry-wide thought leadership for highly-visible projects, policies or high-impact initiatives in either scale or level of innovation
• Ensuring cross-functional support for executions by prioritizing and guiding product goals and influencing the strategic approach to the market/industry
• Guiding multiple teams to solve problems previously thought to be insurmountable
• Influencing team culture to be more ​inclusive, welcoming and candid – identifying and leading Nike Digital Design org, cross pillar, and company-wide initiatives

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You’ll be part of the Consumer & Enterprise Tools team, focused on Strategic Priorities. We’re responsible for the capabilities that power the world’s most-loved consumer experiences — scaling product creation, enterprise capabilities, and dynamic, brand-right journeys for every athlete*, everywhere. You’ll work closely and collaboratively with a cross-functional team of product managers, program managers, engineers, researchers, and fellow designers to discover and understand business, feature, and user requirements that translate into thoughtful design executions.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 10+ years of relevant experience in the design industry
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in design or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• An entrepreneurial spirit with a refined business acumen – executives across the company seek your advice and expertise when understanding the future of digital product design
• Strategic thinker who knows how to connect business goals with consumer needs to create the best experience
• Recognized as world-class by peers both internally and externally due to your track record and understanding of data science, experimentation, product, brand, business, and strategy
• Hands-on creative who’s an expert in all facets of information architecture, interaction design, and UI design
• Works enthusiastically and collaboratively with cross-functional partners, building trusting relationships
• Expert at working with both abstract information and complex, detailed consumer research and data
• Expert in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Principle and Keynote

• Ownership mindset and accountability with experience leading complex projects and driving innovation efforts that uncover new value with new kinds of user experiences
• Excels in all forms of communication, including using storytelling and narrative to influence and persuade stakeholders
• Expert at presenting designs clearly to facilitate useful feedback, while shifting your approach based on the audience and desired outcome
• Impeccable attention to visual detail, high sense of craft/quality, delivering consistent, polished, and balanced layouts through typography, color and visual hierarchy
• Extremely comfortable working independently and being a good collaborator – only asking for support for cases of resource allocation and organizational stickiness

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. 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.