Senior Retail Design Lead - Seasonless Partners

NIKE, Inc.; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike, Inc. in Beaverton, OR seeks a visionary senior retail design leader to elevate Partners Seasonless Retail across North America.

You will oversee design direction for seasonless retail, guiding agencies and cross-functional partners while ensuring Nike's brand standards and premium marketplace experiences. You will shape strategy, review designs at each stage, collaborate with marketing, retail brand, and operations, and lead multiple initiatives in fast-moving environments, balancing

Qualifications

• Visionary design leader with deep experience across environmental design disciplines—from materials and fixture systems to spatial design and graphic and digital integration.
• Ability to translate complex creative thinking into clear, actionable direction for internal partners and external agencies.
• Stay ahead of cultural, design, and consumer trends to create scalable retail design across Partners executions.
• Thrive in ambiguity, manage multiple projects, and influence outcomes at every stage of the creative process.
• Bold point of view, collaborative spirit, and entrepreneurial drive to lead the marketplace into a new era of design excellence.

Responsibilities

• Define seasonless and long-term Partners marketplace design strategy.
• Review designs across creative stages, providing direction on concept, materiality, scale, FF&E, branding, story design, and environmental integration.
• Collaborate with Nike Direct Seasonless Retail to align and unify design across Nike Direct and Partners executions.
• Build compelling presentations that communicate creative strategy to leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Work closely with Accounts Marketing, Retail Brand, Visual Merchandising, Brand Creative, Operations, and external agencies.
• 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.
• 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 for franchise, licensed, department store, concession and wholesale environments.
• Create scalable design frameworks, toolkits and playbooks for architecture, fixtures, graphics, materiality and digital integration.
• Travel 5-10% as needed to support high-priority marketplace installs.

Skills

Retail design leadership

Environmental design

Concept design

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Materials and fixtures

Franchise/department store experience

Environmental graphics

FF&E

Trend awareness

Team leadership

Budget awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in architecture / interior design / spatial design

Tools

FF&E

Job description

Nike, Inc. in Beaverton, OR seeks a visionary senior retail design leader to elevate Partners Seasonless Retail across North America.

You will oversee design direction for seasonless retail, guiding agencies and cross-functional partners while ensuring Nike's brand standards and premium marketplace experiences. You will shape strategy, review designs at each stage, collaborate with marketing, retail brand, and operations, and lead multiple initiatives in fast-moving environments, balancing