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.