Lead, Digital Product Design

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Pahokee (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Interview accommodations for test/meet

Job summary

Nike seeks a senior digital product designer to shape end-to-end experiences for Run Club and Training Club apps. You will partner with product, engineering, data science, marketing, coaches, and designers to craft engaging, performance-driven experiences that motivate athletes.

The role emphasizes user-centric design, rapid prototyping, and cross-platform consistency across web, Android, iOS, and email, with mentorship for teammates and evangelizing the Nike design culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in end-to-end digital product design across visual, UX/UI and prototyping.
• Experience delivering consumer-facing product experiences that improve onboarding, habit formation, motivation, or activity tracking.
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, data science, experimentation and execution.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of athlete motivations and translate into differentiated experience concepts.
• Rapidly visualize, prototype and explore multiple product directions with business and technical impact in mind.
• Design polished work representing the Nike brand through wireframes, flows, visual comps and prototypes.

Skills

End-to-end design

UX research

Prototyping

Cross-functional collaboration

Design systems

Visual design

Mobile design (iOS/Android)

Communication of vision

Tools

Cursor

Figma

Job description

About the Role

The role is part of Nike's Activity Experiences Digital Product Design team, responsible for the Nike Run Club (NRC) and Training Club (NTC) apps and the technology experiences for the Nike Sport Research Lab. The team focuses on shaping digital experiences that help athletes start, stay motivated, and achieve their goals, with a sharp focus on athlete needs. The role partners closely with product, engineering, data science, marketing, sport experts, trainers, coaches, and cross-functional business partners to craft a new digital fitness offering, pioneering Nike's next big competitive advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• • Developing a deep understanding of Athlete motivations and needs, deeply immersed in sport and the digital fitness landscape, and translating it into differentiated experience concepts
• • 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
• • Designing incredibly polished work that represents the Nike brand and product experience through wireframes, flows, visual comps, and prototypes
• • Owning an entire product space or working on large projects that encompass multiple broad/undefined features
• • Thinking big, innovating and driving execution on cross-team products or a domain
• • Rapidly iterating and refining design concepts—from initial briefing through final delivery
• • Facilitating and leading brainstorms and workshops
• • Working closely and collaboratively with a cross-functional team of producers, product managers, project managers, engineers, researchers and fellow designers
• • Inspiring new ways of thinking and exploring the unknown using fresh and unique approaches to design problems
• • Mentoring and providing helpful feedback to fellow designers and interns to uplevel their craft and skills
• • Evangelizing the Nike brand and driving initiatives that strengthen Nike's design culture internally

Required Experience & Qualifications

• • 8+ years of relevant experience with end-to-end digital product design with proven experience in visual, UX/UI, and prototyping
• • Proven experience delivering consumer-facing product experiences that improve onboarding, habit formation, personalization, motivation, community, content discovery, and/or activity tracking.
• • Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, data science, experimentation and execution (expert in one or more areas)
• • Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise and design approach
• • Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based design process
• • Strong collaborator with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers and marketers
• • Experience working with consumer research and data
• • Impeccable attention to detail
• • Exceptional time management skills — providing accurate estimations and often helping the team deliver early
• • Ability to influence or create design patterns or standards that are adopted by other teams
• • Highly proficient with design and prototyping tools such as Cursor and Figma
• • Cross-platform design experiences (web, Android, iOS, email)
• • Ability to communicate a vision for the work in a way others can relate to and buy into
• • Ability to establish a holistic look and feel between all pieces of a large project
• • Experience launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organisation

Benefits & Perks

• • 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.