Senior Creative Director, Global Running, Brand Design

Nike Inc; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike Inc. is seeking a Global Sr Creative Director, Running to lead a multidisciplinary team across Art & Design Direction, Social & Digital, and Narrative & Writing. The role demands deep running knowledge, a passion for athlete culture, and excellence in storytelling for major campaigns and sport moments.

You will mentor senior talent, guide end-to-end creative work, and partner with product and marketing teams to deliver cohesive brand narratives across channels and experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in design or related field.
• 10+ years leading concept, design, narrative and art direction.
• Deep understanding of Running sport and culture.
• A passion for the athlete, their sport and its culture.
• Experienced creative leader and mentor to grow teams.
• Proven depth of experience directing across digital and physical platforms.
• Existing relationships within the creative industry.
• Excellent verbal and visual communication skills.
• Strong design, typography, and retouching with Adobe CS and Figma.
• Astute attention to detail and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Indirectly lead teams across disciplines with the Global Brand Creative Running team.
• Drive brand awareness and engagement through creative deliverables.
• Deliver end-to-end concepts from strategy to channel execution.
• Develop and maintain relationships with photographers, filmmakers, and designers.
• Stay current with running, fashion, design, and digital trends.
• Collaborate with discipline leads to ensure strong cross-functional work.
• Ensure projects are well-planned, resourced, and delivered on time.
• Review project work for quality, consistency, and accuracy.

Skills

Verbal communication

Visual communication

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Typography

Retouching

Design leadership

Mentorship

External talent relations

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in design or related field

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Job description

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

The Global Sr Creative, Running is a highly matrixed role that will require a partnership across multiple functions each day and will require a level of innovative and modern cross-functional relationship building.

They will work with the VP, Global Creative Directors of Brand Design & Brand Voice to build a creative point of view on key projects and collaborate with brand marketing, strategy, digital marketing, retail, brand experience, concepts, and product teams, amongst others.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The Global Sr. Creative Director, Running leads a multidisciplinary team across Art & Design Direction, Social & Digital, Voice, Narrative & Writing, and Seasonal Retail Experiences. They are deep experts in Running performance and culture. They will be simultaneously ensuring that the team deliver integrated creative solutions against the seasonal strategy. This person will deliver world-class creative storytelling by directing and executing both high-impact, multi-million-dollar campaigns against specific Sport briefs as well as delivering against key sport moments and ideas that will blow up the internet across the social platforms. This role leads work across creative disciplines, focused on full end-to-end deliverables from concept to channel execution. Partnering upstream with the product concept sport leads and helping bring a cohesive story through the internal marketing process They are experienced leaders and this role will encourage and lead innovative thinking, collaboration, and teamwork across the creative organization and marketing teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education and experience, and training.
• 10+ years leading concept, design, narrative and art direction in a branded content, agency, editorial or marketing environment.
• Deep understanding of Running sport and style.
• A passion for the athlete*, their sport and its culture.
• Experienced creative leader and mentor, with a passion for helping everyone on the team - especially senior-level and entrepreneurial talent - to grow, succeed, and advance toward collective and individual goals.
• Proven depth of experience in commissioning and directing across a multitude of different digital and physical platforms and channel environments.
• Existing relationships within the creative industry, including external talent, photographers, typographers, designers, architects etc
• Excellent verbal and visual communication skills.
• Depth of experience across online, print, and experiential design, with a solid understanding of content and social platforms.
• Highly proficient in design, typography, and retouching using Adobe Creative Suite plus other software such as Figma.
• Astute attention to detail and meticulous organizational skills.
• Experience leading a design/narrative studio and talent across various locations preferred.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Indirectly lead teams across disciplines against the work within the Global Brand Creative Running team, providing creative leadership, inspiration, mentorship, support and direction. Encourage excellence, ambition, and team spirit.
• Work strategically to drive brand awareness and deliver strong engagement through creative deliverables.
• Deliver full end to end with clear creative strategy and narrative for every concept, best in class art direction, graphic design, social creative thinking, digital design and bringing the stories to life on our channels, across the retail landscape (owned and partners doors) plus digital and social platforms.
• Develop and maintain relationships with photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, designers, and their agents, working strategically with other leads in the business to ensure the strongest approach to external talent.
• Keep up to date with emerging trends in Running, fashion, design, film, art, media and technology as relevant to Nike and the creative team.
• Strong collaboration and partnership with all the discipline leads across Art & design, Social and digital, Brand Experience, Narrative & Voice, Production & Operations.
• Ensure all projects are well-planned, creatively exceptional, and delivered on time. Work with the operations team to ensure projects are appropriately resourced and be a great partner to think enterprise across all studios.
• Review project work for highest standards of quality, consistency, accuracy and successful completion.
• Collaborate with the larger team to critically evaluate the creative process and continually improve it.

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.