NIKE Kids is looking to hire a Footwear Technical Developer II to create amazing footwear for young athletes, solve problems relevant to children's development, and drive product and process excellence.
Requirements
- Demonstrated understanding of footwear pattern engineering, tooling, and manufacturing processes.
- A demonstrated ability to tinker, to create prototypes, to explore, learn, and to find ways to improve products through physically altering their state.
- Ability to read technical drawings, sketches and/or 3D digital files.
- Basic knowledge of materials, test methods, and properties and application.
Responsibilities
- convert a project brief and a 2D design rendering into a 3D sample that meets the needs of the consumer as well as the needs of the business.
- utilize your knowledge and experience to enhance product excellence.
- engage in all phases of the product process to ensure projects are managed according to critical dates and completed on time, while meeting design intent, performance goals, costing/profitability and sustainability targets.
- ensure that your projects are ready for the commercialization process and can ultimately be manufactured.
- navigate the Nike matrix to ensure that our processes model and match NIKE Footwear Development standard methodologies for product excellence.
- ensure that communication during the product development process is clear and accurate.
Other
- We are looking for people that are self-starters, quick learners, clear communicators, team players and that exhibit strong leadership skills.
- demonstrated project management, collaboration, and problem solving skills in a product creation setting.
- Effective Collaborator adept at working productively within a team.
- Experience collaborating with internal and external partners.
- Experience facilitating meetings, driving consensus, and influencing others.
- Proven verbal and written communication skills with an ability to clearly articulate goals and objectives.
- Proven Ability to identify & suggest cost effective solutions.
- Experience in project management, problem-solving scenarios and applying solutions.
- Creative problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated Self Starter that is willing to learn and grow.
- Ability to travel up to 15% of the time.
