Product Engineer II, Kids Footwear

Nike Inc; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike Inc. in Beaverton, OR seeks a Kid’s Sport Footwear Product Engineer II to join the Kid’s Division Footwear Product team.

You will develop concepts, read technical drawings, and analyze data to refine product specifications while collaborating across design, testing, and management to deliver cost-effective, high-quality footwear for young athletes. You will contribute to new engineering practices and update existing ones to enhance quality, craftsmanship, performance, and efficiency,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training.
• A minimum of 2 years directly relevant work experience.
• Experience working in Footwear, Product Testing, Development, Engineering, or a related field.
• Navigate product details with clear communication of vision and ideas.
• Communicate proficiently with multiple internal and external partners.
• Be comfortable starting with a blank canvas and drive Nike footwear futures.
• Think out of the box, learn, and innovate leveraging consumer insights and testing.
• Read technical drawings, specs, design sketches and 3D files and connect them as a system.
• Familiar with CAD viewing, 3D printing, and basic lasts, tooling and manufacturing knowledge.
• Understand materials, tests, and how they work in the product creation system.
• Identify and drive engineering solutions from concept to manufacturing.
• Value cross-cultural collaboration within Nike’s matrix.
• Digital literacy including MS Office, Miro, spreadsheets, databases, and CAD/CAM tools.

Responsibilities

• Focus on product creation from initial brief to commercialization with emphasis on craftsmanship and performance.
• Provide early recommendations and technical expertise on tooling, outsole/midsole, plates, and materials.
• Address sustainability, cost, and chemical engineering solutions across processes and testing.
• Contribute to new engineering best practices and improve quality, craftsmanship, and efficiency.

Skills

Technical communication

Creative problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Reading technical drawings

CAD/CAM/3D modeling

Data analytics mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

CAD/CAM tools

Pattern engineering software

3D printing

Miro Board

Microsoft Office

Job description

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a member of the Kid’s Footwear Team, you will collaborate with key functional partners both onshore and offshore. This includes teams in Footwear Product Development, Footwear Product Testing, Footwear Material Design and Development, Product Design, Product Management, Product Merchandising, Sourcing, Business Operations, Value Engineering, and our partners in Asia—both within NIKE and externally. You will need to navigate the NIKE matrix to ensure that our processes align with NIKE Footwear Engineering divisional and functional standards, effectively driving product excellence. You will serve as the primary point of contact for our Technical Asia teammates, ensuring clear and accurate communication during the product development, commercialization, and manufacturing processes.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a Kid's Sport Footwear Product Engineer II to join our Kid’s Division Footwear Product team, dedicated to creating the best footwear for our youngest athletes. As a member of the NIKE Kid’s Footwear team, you will utilize innovative approaches to develop new concepts, influence the design of products and processes, read and interpret technical drawings with confidence, and analyze process data to create refined product specifications. You will be involved in new creation projects, reviewing samples during product creation and commercialization to provide feedback that ensures cost-effective, high-quality deliverables meeting consumer expectations. Your role will also include contributing to new engineering best practices and updating existing ones to enhance quality, craftsmanship, performance, and efficiency. The ideal candidate must be a self-starter, a quick learner, a strong communicator, a great teammate, and possess solid technical and leadership skills.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• A minimum of 2 years directly relevant work experience
• Experience working in Footwear, Product Testing, Development, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience and training.
• Navigate between obsessing about the product details/craftmanship and communicating with clarity your vision and ideas.
• Ability to communicate proficiently with multiple internal and external partners with in-depth communication with positive energy.
• Be comfortable to start with a blank canvas, bridging traditional footwear practices inside or outside of NIKE, and be fearless to drive the future of NIKE footwear.
• An inclination to think out of the box, explore, learn, and find ways to innovate and improve the athlete experience, applying consumers insights, leveraging NSRL science, Virtual, Mechanical, and athlete testing and data analytics.
• Experienced in reading technical drawings, specs, design sketches and/or 3D digital files and link them together as a system approach to identify potential problems and/or challenges and provide complete problem-solving/options and solutions.
• Demonstrated understanding virtual and rapid prototyping methods such as CAD viewing and 3D printing. Basic knowledge of lasts, footwear pattern engineering, tooling, and manufacturing process highly preferred.
• Fundamental Knowledge of materials, materials properties, test methods, and applications with clear understanding how they work together within our product creation process as a system versus a silo approach.
• Ability to identify & drive valuable engineering solutions from the conceptual stage all the way to manufacturing.
• Value differences and be able to work across cultures while navigating NIKE’s organizational matrix
• Digital literacy, including familiarity with Microsoft Office, Miro Board, spreadsheets, database management, and proficiency with 2D/3D CAD/CAM tools, and pattern engineering software, is a plus

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

This role focuses on product creation, from initial brief to commercialization, with an unwavering commitment to product excellence in terms of Craft, Fit, Comfort, Performance, Quality, Sustainability, Cost/Value, and Innovation. You will provide early recommendations and technical expertise to cross-functional teams on tooling, outsole and midsole compounds, plates, thermoplastic injection, product construction techniques, materials, manufacturing processes, sustainability, cost, and chemical engineering solutions (including processes, lab testing, MCS, MPS, etc.). Your contributions will drive the continued growth of the team and the business, helping to forestall potential manufacturing, sustainability, or cost issues. We count on you to provide a multi-solution approach and creative problem-solving to deliver sustainable product excellence for our consumers. Additionally, you will contribute to new engineering best practices and enhance existing practices to improve quality, craftsmanship, performance, and efficiency.

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.