Senior Expert, Retail Execution Partners Design NA

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Pahokee (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike is seeking a senior design leader to guide Partners Seasonless Retail across North America, shaping premium retail experiences and maintaining brand standards. You will lead door retail design with a seasonless 365 lens and collaborate with NA Retail Accounts Marketing, Retail Brand, and external agencies.

You will define design strategy with the Design Director, review creative work, and communicate concepts to leadership. Travel 5–10% to support marketplace installations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in architecture, interior design, spatial design, or related field.
• Strong awareness of trends in colour, architecture, experience design, and sport industry applications.
• Proven ability to lead multiple complex retail design initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design of Partners Seasonless Retail, leading NA partner door retail design through a seasonless 365 lens while ensuring Nike brand standards and elevating the retail experience across the marketplace.
• Shape design direction, guide agencies, and drive cross-functional collaboration to deliver best-in-class storytelling across North America.
• Partner with the Design Director to define seasonless and long-term Partners marketplace design strategy.
• Review designs across each creative stage, providing clear direction on concept, materiality, scale, FF&E, branding, story design, and environmental integration to align with the Nike Retail Design standard.
• Collaborate with Nike Direct Seasonless Retail to align and unify design across Nike Direct and Partners executions.
• Build compelling presentations and work closely with Accounts Marketing, Retail Brand, Visual Merchandising, Brand Creative, Operations, and external agencies to communicate creative strategy to leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Identify value-engineering opportunities to maximize design impact while staying within budget.
• Contribute to the evolution of Nike's brand standards, design ethos, and operational practices for Partners Retail, and explore new modes of storytelling through lighting, sculpture, motion, environmental graphics, and emerging technologies.
• Inspire and educate the broader team by sharing cultural and design trends shaping future retail experiences.
• Develop and maintain Partner Door Retail Design Guidelines and create scalable design frameworks, toolkits and playbooks for franchise, licensed, department store, concession and wholesale environments across architecture, fixtures, graphics, materiality and digital integration.
• Travel 5–10% as needed to support high-priority marketplace installs.

Skills

Retail design leadership

Stakeholder management

Creative direction

Brand governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in architecture/interior/spatial design or related field

Job description

About the Role

The role leads design for Partners Seasonless Retail across North America, shaping physical retail experiences that connect athletes to the future of sport. It sits within the North America Brand Creative Retail team, which leads Nike's retail innovation across the largest geography. The role partners closely with NA Retail Accounts Marketing, Retail Brand, Nike Direct Seasonal / Seasonless Retail, and external agencies to deliver unified, premium marketplace executions. The design leader oversees partner door retail design through a seasonless 365 lens while ensuring Nike brand standards and elevating the retail experience across the marketplace.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the design of Partners Seasonless Retail, leading NA partner door retail design through a seasonless 365 lens while ensuring Nike brand standards and elevating the retail experience across the marketplace.
• Shape design direction, guide agencies, and drive cross-functional collaboration to deliver best-in-class storytelling across North America.
• Partner with the Design Director to define seasonless and long-term Partners marketplace design strategy.
• Review designs across each creative stage, providing clear direction on concept, materiality, scale, FF&E, branding, story design, and environmental integration to align with the Nike Retail Design standard.
• Collaborate with Nike Direct Seasonless Retail to align and unify design across Nike Direct and Partners executions.
• Build compelling presentations and work closely with Accounts Marketing, Retail Brand, Visual Merchandising, Brand Creative, Operations, and external agencies to communicate creative strategy to leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Identify value-engineering opportunities to maximize design impact while staying within budget.
• Contribute to the evolution of Nike's brand standards, design ethos, and operational practices for Partners Retail, and explore new modes of storytelling through lighting, sculpture, motion, environmental graphics, and emerging technologies.
• Inspire and educate the broader team by sharing cultural and design trends shaping future retail experiences.
• Develop and maintain Partner Door Retail Design Guidelines and create scalable design frameworks, toolkits and playbooks for franchise, licensed, department store, concession and wholesale environments across architecture, fixtures, graphics, materiality and digital integration.
• Travel 5–10% as needed to support high-priority marketplace installs.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of retail design, architecture, interior design, or experiential design leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in architecture, interior design, spatial design, or related field; will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• Awareness of trends in colour, art, architecture and experience design, graphic design, and their application to the sport industry.
• Strong attention to detail and stakeholder management and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex projects of varying scale, budgets, and timelines, and proven ability to lead multiple complex retail design initiatives in ambiguous and fast-moving environments, balancing multiple stakeholder needs, shifting priorities
• And time-sensitive deadlines while maintaining exceptional creative and executional standards.
• Expertise in fixture and production design, materiality, fabrication, emerging manufacturing trends, concept design, design development, FF&E, fixtures, materials and environmental graphics.
• Deep experience with partner doors, franchise, licence, department store and concession retail environments, and proven ability to create and govern retail design standards and implementation guidelines.
• Visionary design leader able to elevate Partners Seasonless Retail across North America, with a consumer-first mindset that pushes the boundaries of immersive retail while staying grounded in retail realities.
• Senior retail design leader with expertise across wholesale partners, franchise, licensed stores, department stores, concession environments, and shop-in-shop concepts, able to lead concept design, design development, FF&E, fixture systems, environmental graphics and brand governance.
• Deep experience across environmental design disciplines—from materials and fixture systems to spatial design and graphic and digital integration—and able to translate complex creative thinking into clear, actionable direction for both internal partners and external agencies.
• Stays ahead of cultural, design, and consumer trends, applying that insight to create consistent, scalable retail design across Partners executions.
• Thrives in ambiguity, navigates multiple projects simultaneously, and knows how to influence outcomes at every stage of the creative process.
• Brings a bold point of view, a collaborative spirit, and an entrepreneurial drive to lead the marketplace into a new era of design excellence.

The Application Process

A range of accommodation is available to complete the interview process, including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.