Senior Staff Designer - Design System

Company: Nike Deutschland GmbH
Location: Beaverton
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game. NIKE, Inc. designs the future. At NIKE, Inc. designers chase their curiosities and build what's next, shaping the culture and advancing human potential. The Design teams include artists, inventors and specialists, all with different focuses, including color and material experts, and apparel, footwear and graphic designers. Nike designers look to the future, aggressively pursuing materials, ideas and forms that further elevate the athlete experience, raise the bar for modern style and reduce environmental impact.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR
You're known for your expert-level design craft and ability to lead multiple projects at a time. You're a compelling presenter with a clear and informed POV. You've built solid relationships with your cross-functional partners, demonstrating a deep understanding of strategy and business goals. You're well-known for your vision and thought leadership and everyone on the team looks to you for long-term thinking.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
The Experience Engine & Tools Team is creating the digital foundation that powers Nike's personalized consumer-anywhere experiences at scale. We're responsible for the UX and design of Nike's design system, the engagement and content platforms used by our internal teams, and for the content, motion and branding that bring Nike's brand ethos to life in our digital product ecosystem. As a key member of this team, you'll report into the Sr. Design Director of Experience Engine & Tools within Nike Digital Product Design.
WHAT YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE
- Leading the vision, strategy and execution of Nike's Design System by influencing roadmaps, processes and how the UI design language brings the brand to life - Evangelizing and advocating for the adoption of the design system within Nike's UX community - Evolving and reimagining our design language in a hands-on capacity - Designing incredibly polished work that represents the Nike brand and product experience through visual comps, wireframes, flows and prototypes - Owning larger projects that require multiple levels of coordination or working at the forefront of a new digital product design initiative - Shaping design ecosystems and creating traction around a design direction - Supervising the quality and design output for your projects/initiatives across organizations, and heavily influencing the overall quality - Providing thought leadership for highly visible, cross-functional teams, leading projects or initiatives for your product area, across multiple areas, and Digital Product Design - Driving agendas between cross-functional partners to prioritize high-value opportunities, mitigate constraints, and playing a critical role on project prioritization, providing contributors with direction - Inspiring new ways of thinking and exploring the unknown using fresh and unique approaches to design problems - Guiding your teams to solve the toughest problems of a product or feature while mentoring and developing senior talent - Influencing team culture by always being inclusive, welcoming and candid---identifying, leading and delivering initiatives that improve the culture across the org - Improving the caliber and efficiency of the Digital Product Design org through identifying, owning and successfully driving substantial and ambitious org-wide initiatives
WHAT YOU BRING TO NIKE
- 10+ years of relevant experience with end-to-end digital product design with proven experience in visual and UX - A bachelor's degree in design, UX/UI design, human-computer interaction, or related field is preferred, but not required - Proficiency in creating sophisticated, multi-platform design systems and guidelines for digital ecosystems - A visionary in UI standards and interaction patterns that look and feel on brand - Experienced in establishing new visual design systems for various brands from the ground-up - Familiar with the end-to-end process of how design systems are run in corporations - Experienced knowledge level in data science, experimentation, product, brand, business and strategy - Ability to simplify the complex by delivering high-quality, end-to-end design solutions that are intuitive and easy to use - Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based design process - Strong collaborator with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers and marketers - Specialist in time management - simultaneously delivering on time and guiding the team to build more efficient processes during emergencies - Experience working with consumer research and data - Experienced at using metrics and data to help define success - Expert in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Principle and Keynote - Ability to craft crisp, concise and informative narratives that are influential to a wide variety of people - Ability to drive new design patterns or standards that helps unblock multiple teams - Ability to define 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, sports and for creating high-quality work - A fascination with innovation and technology and a solid understanding of digital tools and trends NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. How We Hire At NIKE, Inc. we promise to provide a premium, inclusive, compelling and authentic candidate experience. Delivering on this promise means we allow you to be at your best - and to do that, you need to understand how the hiring process works. Transparency is key.* This overview explains our hiring process for corporate roles. Note there may be different hiring steps involved for non-corporate roles. Whether it's transportation or financial health, we continually invest in our employees to help them achieve greatness - inside and outside of work. All who work here should be able to realize their full potential.

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