Lead Product Developer - Energy Footwear (Multiple Openings)

Nike; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike is seeking a Lead Footwear Product Developer in Beaverton, OR to drive product creation from concept to commercialization. You will guide projects within fast-paced development cycles, ensuring design integrity, quality, performance, cost, sustainability, and timing goals.

This role requires leadership across diverse teams, deep technical knowledge of footwear materials and manufacturing, and strong project management with a willingness to travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Footwear Product Creation experience.
• Lead footwear product development projects at an accelerated pace, through all phases of product creation.
• Deep technical knowledge across lasts, uppers, materials, tooling, costing, engineering, testing, and manufacturing.
• Strong communication across functions, geographies, and leadership levels.

Responsibilities

• Drive product creation from concept through commercialization.
• Provide project and process direction within fast-paced development environments.
• Ensure design intent, quality, performance, cost, sustainability, and timing expectations.

Skills

Footwear product development

Project management

Cross-functional communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Global collaboration

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, material development, engineering, physical sciences or related field

Job description

What You’ll Work On

The Footwear Energy Team creates culturally relevant, groundbreaking footwear that surprises our most discerning consumers. The team delivers Nike’s pinnacle expressions across collaborations, fashion collections, and athlete-led initiatives. We routinely partner with athletes and influencers to create performance and lifestyle products through dynamic, evolving processes.

What You’ll Work On

The Footwear Energy Team creates culturally relevant, groundbreaking footwear that surprises our most discerning consumers. The team delivers Nike’s pinnacle expressions across collaborations, fashion collections, and athlete-led initiatives. We routinely partner with athletes and influencers to create performance and lifestyle products through dynamic, evolving processes.

Who We Are Looking For

The Lead Footwear Product Developer drives product creation from concept through commercialization. This role provides project and process direction within fast-paced, close-to-market development environments while ensuring each project meets design intent, quality, performance, cost, sustainability, and timing expectations.

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, material development, engineering, physical sciences or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 6+ years of Footwear Product Creation experience
• Background in engineering, material development, and footwear manufacturing is a plus.
• Lead footwear product development projects at an accelerated pace, through all phases of product creation.
• Leverage deep technical knowledge across lasts, uppers, materials, tooling, costing, engineering, testing, and manufacturing.
• Motivated and driven self-starter who can exhibit strong project management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Communicate effectively across functions, geographies, and leadership levels.
• Demonstrate resilient leadership with high tolerance for ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Build strong partnerships across global, culturally diverse teams.
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution to deliver product excellence.
• Travel up to 10% as needed.

Who You’ll Work With

This role sits within Nike’s Product Creation Team—a collective of developers, engineers material experts, and testing analysts obsessed with raising the bar of footwear product excellence. The Lead Developer partners closely with Design, Marketing, Product Creation and Innovation teams, and collaborates daily with both onshore and offshore manufacturing partners to bring bold ideas to life.

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,