Lead, Digital Product Design

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You'll be part of the Activity Experiences Digital Product Design team, responsible for Nike's Run Club (NRC) and Training Club (NTC) apps-shaping digital experiences that help athletes start, stay motivated, and achieve their goals-as well as the technology experiences powering our world-class Nike Sport Research Lab. With a sharp focus on athlete needs, this team powers stronger, healthier and happier bodies and minds. You'll partner closely with product, engineering, data science, marketing, sport experts, trainers, coaches, and cross-functional business partners to craft a new digital fitness offering, pioneering Nike's next big competitive advantage.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You live and breathe sport. You're known for your well-honed design craft and ability to navigate teams through high-visibility initiatives. You're the glue between the design team and cross-functional counterparts. You lead projects, solving design challenges while inspiring others through your work and collaboration. You're also growing your leadership skills by being a mentor to other designers.

• 8+ years of relevant experience with end-to-end digital product design with proven experience in visual, UX/UI, and prototyping

• Proven experience delivering consumer-facing product experiences that improve onboarding, habit formation, personalization, motivation, community, content discovery, and/or activity tracking.

• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, data science, experimentation and execution (expert in one or more areas)

• Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise and design approach

• 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

• Impeccable attention to detail

• Exceptional time management skills - providing accurate estimations and often helping the team deliver early

• Ability to influence or create design patterns or standards that are adopted by other teams

• Highly proficient with design and prototyping tools such as Cursor and Figma

• Cross-platform design experiences (web, Android, iOS, email)

• Ability to communicate a vision for the work in a way others can relate to and buy into

• Ability to establish a holistic look and feel between all pieces of a large project

• Experience launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization

• Passion for the Nike brand, sport and for creating high-quality work

• A fascination with innovation and technology and a solid understanding of digital tools and trends

• Experience with digital fitness, wellness, coaching, activity tracking, wearable integrations, training plans, guided content, challenges, achievements, or community-based motivation features.

• Familiarity with Nike Run Club, Nike Training Club, or comparable consumer fitness products that combine coaching, content, community, personalization, and progress tracking to support athlete goals.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Developing a deep understanding of Athlete* motivations and needs, deeply immersed in sport and the digital fitness landscape, and translating it into differentiated experience concepts

• Rapidly visualizing, prototyping and exploring multiple product design directions in response to hypotheses-with sharp consideration of the business and technical impacts of the solutions

• Designing incredibly polished work that represents the Nike brand and product experience through wireframes, flows, visual comps, and prototypes

• Owning an entire product space or working on large projects that encompass multiple broad/undefined features

• Thinking big, innovating and driving execution on cross-team products or a domain

• Rapidly iterating and refining design concepts-from initial briefing through final delivery

• Facilitating and leading brainstorms and workshops

• Working closely and collaboratively with a cross-functional team of producers, product managers, project managers, engineers, researchers and fellow designers

• Inspiring new ways of thinking and exploring the unknown using fresh and unique approaches to design problems

• Mentoring and providing helpful feedback to fellow designers and interns to uplevel their craft and skills

• Evangelizing the Nike brand and driving initiatives that strengthen Nike's design culture internally

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.