About the Role
The Senior Creative Director for Jordan Energy will report directly to the Chief Design Officer and manage a team focused on footwear & apparel, product, graphic, colour, and material design. The role involves shaping, inspiring, and guiding the creative vision, collaborative projects, and teams through world-building concepts, Jordan exclusive products, and collaborator-focused key looks. The director will oversee a small, agile team and be responsible for setting the design direction and implementing initiatives that will shape the future of design for Jordan Energy. Collaboration with colleagues in design, external partners, product management, global merchandising, brand marketing, and development across various business areas is essential to maintain consistency and alignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Build long term vision and seasonal creative direction.
- Develop a strategy in collaboration with the GM, while partnering alongside the Brand Director and Product Directors.
- Initiate design explorations with teams to build seasonal direction.
- Create seasonal creative direction including seasonal concept(s), product creative direction, colours, graphics and materials direction in collaboration with the Jordan design leadership team and leveraging Brand creative direction from Design Leadership.
- Build design foundations for Jordan Energy: elevate and hold brand standards on products, design best practices and ground in fundamentals for Jordan Energy across footwear & apparel and blend with end-in-mind expertise (consumer and retail).
- Create an engaging & high-performing design environment: build best-in-class environment for designers and build high performing teams.
- Ensure end-to-end design approach from creative direction to products in store, including concept, products, head-to-toe looks and cohesive Jordan Energy in-house seasonal collections (new styles + carry-overs).
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in design or related field, or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
- 10+ years of professional creative experience in footwear, apparel, or product creation.
- Prior senior design leadership experience in design, brand, innovation, and/or leading a creative team at scale.
- Expertise in setting and driving comprehensive design strategy and creative direction at scale.
- Experience working across multiple initiatives and objectives across the enterprise.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary design teams and influence cross-functional partners effectively.
- Exceptional storytelling, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to operate at visionary, strategical and tactical levels.
- Strong design intuition combined with business acumen and strategic thinking.
- Ability to operate with agility, manage ambiguity, prioritise, and connect across multiple functions including brand, merchandising, geos, collaborators, and product creation teams.