Nike is looking to hire a Senior Footwear Developer to join their Brand Impact Sports Footwear Development team to create innovative and high-performance footwear for Football, Baseball, Golf, and Tennis. The role aims to solve the business problem of developing products that meet consumer needs, performance goals, costing targets, and sustainability objectives while ensuring timely completion and manufacturability.
Requirements
- Knowledge of footwear manufacturing processes, technologies and equipment, tooling, and materials is highly preferred
- Previous experience with innovative, technical, performance product is preferred
- Apply experienced level of footwear technical knowledge to drive product creation teams through 3D Prototyping, Bottom Tooling, Upper Patterns, Mold Design, Chemical, Materials, Costing, and Manufacturing
Responsibilities
- Recommend and specify the material, component and construction to meet key features and performance goals.
- Apply understanding of sophisticated innovation concepts to the in-line product process and offering.
- Apply experienced level of footwear technical knowledge to drive product creation teams through 3D Prototyping, Bottom Tooling, Upper Patterns, Mold Design, Chemical, Materials, Costing, and Manufacturing to achieve project objectives in an efficient, effective, balanced, and timely way.
- 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 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 projects are exceeding the consumer and athlete needs, that they are ready for the commercialization process and that they can ultimately be manufactured.
Other
- Demonstrated proven project management experience, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a footwear product creation setting.
- Self-starters, quick learner, clear communicator, team player and that exhibits strong leadership skills.
- Aptitude to gain knowledge of our consumer’s footwear needs and to bring relevant and impactful solutions a wide range of product challenges and opportunities.
- Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience or training
- A minimum of 3 years directly relevant work experience
- High profile communication and influencing skills, including the ability to interact with leadership and cross functional product creation team members
- Understanding of product planning, forecasting, and process planning with strong communication skills
