Senior Principal, Digital Product Design

Position Type

Full Time

Career area

Software Engineering

Location

1 Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, Oregon 97005, United States

Job ID

R-87632

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It’s a place where passionate individuals come together to create the future of sport. We are unapologetic about who we are and what we’re after—bringing innovation and inspiration to every athlete in the world. We look for athletes who can push boundaries, elevate our potential and continue leading us to greatness. The next tastemakers, playmakers, risk takers and glue players. Are you game?

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 the architect of entire product ecosystems and have created and launched more industry-leading products than you can count. As the most senior designer on the team, you’ve developed expert-level design craft and lead multiple dimensions of experience definition. You’re a strong generative and visionary designer with exceptional interaction design skills. You not only lead the largest and most complex projects, but you also push the organization to seek out new opportunities that will have a positive impact on the business. You partner with senior leaders and VPs across the company to create a vision for what a product should be and then guide and shape the design from beginning to end as it becomes a reality.

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

An entrepreneurial spirit with a refined business acumen – executives across the company seek your advice and expertise when understanding the future of digital product design

Strategic thinker who knows how to connect business goals with consumer needs to create the best experience

Recognized as world class by peers both internally and externally due to your track record and understanding of data science, experimentation, product, brand, business and strategy

Hands-on creative who’s an expert in all facets of information architecture, interaction design and UI design

Works enthusiastically and collaboratively with cross-functional partners, building trusting relationships

Expert at working with both abstract information and complex, detailed consumer research and data

Expert in design and prototyping tools such as Figma and Cursor

Ownership mindset and accountability with experience leading complex projects and driving innovation efforts that uncover new value with new kinds of user experiences

Excels in all forms of communication, including using storytelling and narrative to influence and persuade stakeholders

Expert at presenting designs clearly to facilitate useful feedback while shifting your approach based on the audience and desired outcome

Impeccable attention to visual detail, high sense of craft/quality, delivering consistent, polished, and balanced layouts through typography, color and visual hierarchy

Extremely comfortable working independently and being a good collaborator – only asking for support for cases of resource allocation and organizational stickiness

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

Owning large end-to-end initiatives that span multiple teams and outcomes at the forefront of a new product area or discipline

Working collaboratively with a cross-functional team of product and program managers, engineers, researchers, producers, and fellow designers – representing the work, and storytelling your solutions in front of executives

Defining an entire category of experiences, proposing solutions that drive business objectives and using design methods to identify new opportunities

Elevating the role of digital design at Nike and facilitating a dialog/awareness between our org and the external design community

Inspiring and mentoring other designers and raising the bar through your own work and your team's output

Driving industry-wide thought leadership for highly visible projects, policies or high-impact initiatives in either scale or level of innovation

Ensuring cross-functional support for executions by prioritizing and guiding product goals and influencing the strategic approach to the market/industry

Guiding multiple teams to solve problems previously thought to be insurmountable while mentoring and developing senior talent

Influencing team culture to be more inclusive, welcoming and candid – identifying and leading Nike Digital Design org, cross pillar and company-wide initiatives

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.

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.

What You Can Expect

OUR HIRING GAME PLAN

01 Apply

Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.

02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment

If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.

03 Interview

Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.