NIKE

Lead, Basketball Design Integration, Global Jordan

Beaverton, Oregon Full time

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You’ll collaborate with Jordan Basketball Design leaders, the Performance Design Integration Director, and the Business Integration team. Together, this group drives process excellence, solves complex challenges, and ensures seamless integration across design functions.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The Jordan Basketball Design Integration Lead is a proactive, organized, and collaborative problem-solver who keeps the Basketball Design Studio running at its best. They thrive in dynamic environments, balancing creativity with operational rigor. They bring clarity to complexity, communicate with impact, and champion process improvements that empower designers to focus on innovation. This role demands a strategic thinker who can prioritize, adapt, and lead with confidence.

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

  • 3+ years of experience in project management within complex organizations

  • Experience with design and product creation processes, specifically footwear and apparel

  • Strong communication and facilitation skills across diverse teams

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines with precision

  • Expertise in building scalable systems and tools for creative environments

  • Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-paced settings

  • Proficiency in analyzing data to inform strategic decisions

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You’ll partner across apparel and footwear design and business functions to make the product creation process clear, efficient, and impactful—delivering game-changing products to athletes*.

  • Drive cross-functional integration of footwear and apparel processes using templates, tools, and clear communications

  • Collaborate with product creation partners to develop plans for key dates and deliverables

  • Enable high-performance design studio practices by executing process excellence and aligning Product, Color, Material, and Graphics design functions

  • Work closely with the Performance Design Integration Director to implement scalable solutions and ensure policies and procedures are followed

  • Ensure deadlines and deliverables are met for design teams and upstream/downstream partners

  • Advance integrated apparel and footwear process milestones to keep work aligned with briefs, marketplace capacity, and consumer expectations

  • Analyze line plans to balance team workload capacity and provide insights for strategic decisions

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.