Senior Digital Designer, Design Systems

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Pahokee (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike is seeking a Senior Digital Designer to join the Podium Design System team, a horizontal group across Nike Digital Product Design. You will design components, tokens, and guidance for Podium and collaborate with product teams to ensure consistency across experiences.

Reporting to the Senior Design Manager, you will mentor peers, drive strategic thinking, and help scale design systems with user research, usability testing, and workshops.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of end-to-end digital product design experience.
• Bachelor's degree in design or related field.
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design and execution.
• Ability to deliver high-quality, end-to-end design solutions that uphold Nike's quality standards.
• Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise.
• 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.
• Design systems experience covering tokens, components and Figma code parity.
• AI fluency, including Cursor/agents and structured content for machine readability.

Responsibilities

• Design Podium Design System components, tokens, guidance, AI tooling and integrations into product domains.
• Drive strategic thinking and design execution across large-scope project tracks.
• Design polished work that represents the Nike brand and product experience through visual comps, wireframes, flows and prototypes.
• Own multiple product features for medium to large projects.
• Take proactive ownership at the edges of projects where requirements and design objectives are more ambiguous.
• Rapidly iterate and refine design concepts from initial briefing through final delivery.
• Work closely and collaboratively with a cross-functional team of producers, product managers, design operations, engineers, researchers and fellow designers, as well as product team partners who use and implement Podium.
• Develop design solutions using participatory and iterative techniques, including user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, and design thinking brainstorms and workshops.
• Mentor and provide helpful feedback to fellow designers and interns to uplevel their craft and skills.
• Evangelise the Nike brand and drive initiatives that strengthen Nike's design culture internally.

Skills

End-to-end digital product design

Product thinking

Interaction design

UX/UI design

User research

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in design or related field

Tools

Figma

Design systems

React/TypeScript concepts

CSS variables / tokens

Job description

About the Role

The Senior Digital Designer works within Nike's Podium Design System team, a horizontal team that spans Nike Digital Product Design and acts as a catalyst to help Nike digital move at the speed of sport. The role involves working side by side with two Lead Designers and a Lead Engineer in a fluid, collaborative manner, and reports directly to the Senior Design Manager of the Podium team. The designer helps drive decision making, informs strategic thinking and executes detailed design for the Podium Design System, collaborating with product team partners who use and implement Podium.

Key Responsibilities

• Design Podium Design System components, tokens, guidance, AI tooling and integrations into product domains.
• Drive strategic thinking and design execution across large-scope project tracks.
• Design polished work that represents the Nike brand and product experience through visual comps, wireframes, flows and prototypes.
• Own multiple product features for medium to large projects.
• Take proactive ownership at the edges of projects where requirements and design objectives are more ambiguous.
• Rapidly iterate and refine design concepts from initial briefing through final delivery.
• Work closely and collaboratively with a cross-functional team of producers, product managers, design operations, engineers, researchers and fellow designers, as well as product team partners who use and implement Podium.
• Develop design solutions using participatory and iterative techniques, including user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, and design thinking brainstorms and workshops.
• Mentor and provide helpful feedback to fellow designers and interns to uplevel their craft and skills.
• Evangelise the Nike brand and drive initiatives that strengthen Nike's design culture internally.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience with end-to-end digital product design, with proven experience in visual and UX.
• A bachelor's degree or higher in design or a related field (such as UX/UI design or human-computer interaction); any suitable combination of education, experience and training will be accepted.
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design and execution.
• Ability to deliver high-quality, end-to-end design solutions that uphold Nike's quality standards.
• Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise.
• Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based design process.
• Strong collaborator with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers and marketers.
• Solid design process and strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with consumer research and data.
• Design systems experience covering tokens, components and Figma code parity.
• AI fluency, including Cursor/agents and structured content for machine readability.
• Experience launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organisation.
• Ability to effectively communicate design intentions and establish gravity around ideas.
• Ability to produce a holistic look and feel between all pieces of a large project.
• Passion for the Nike brand, sports and for creating high-quality work.

Preferred Skills

• Horizontal partnership: working across Podium and with design-system consumers.
• Enterprise / high-density internal tooling UIs.
• Reconciling sub-system libraries with a core design system.
• Documentation site authoring, rather than Figma-only delivery.
• Motion design.
• Lightweight engineering familiarity: React/TypeScript components, CSS custom properties and npm publish patterns.

The Application Process

A number of accommodations are offered to complete the interview process, including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single-location in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.

About the Company

The team designs and develops highly flexible, reusable UI that can be used across Nike's portfolio of digital products, accelerating teams' ability to create elevated brand experiences for external and internal users, and believes a design system is never done, pouring its creativity into inspiring and empowering digital innovation at Nike.