Responsibilities

• Build a strong creative culture in the Jordan Brand— leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing multidisciplinary teams (art direction, design, narrative direction, writing, and production) to operate at their highest creative level.
• Deliver full end to end with clear creative strategy and narrative for every concept, best in class art direction, graphic design, social creative thinking, digital design, experience direction, and bringing the stories to life on our channels, our experiences, and our digital and social platforms.
• Develop and maintain relationships with photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, designers, and their agents, working strategically with other leads in the business to ensure the strongest approach to external talent.
• Manage and elevate the craft of design and narrative, partnering to deliver best-in-class work.
• Stay at the forefront of emerging trends in sport, fashion, art, and technology, translating those insights into culturally powerful creative ideas.
• Cultivate relationships with key external creative partners — photographers, filmmakers, designers, stylists, and other cultural collaborators — to elevate Nike’s creative impact in the region.
• Ensure all projects are well-planned, creatively exceptional, and delivered on-time. Work with the operations team to ensure projects are appropriately resourced and be a great partner to think enterprise across all studios.
• Review project work for highest standards of quality, consistency, accuracy and successful completion.
• Collaborate with the larger team to critically evaluate the creative process and continually improve it.
• Contribute to the broader Brand Creative leadership team, helping shape Jordan’s future creative vision across North America.

Requirements

• Must have a deep passion and knowledge of North American sport, athletes and streetwear culture first and foremost.
• Bachelor's Degree in Design, or related field preferred. Will accept any suitable combination of education and experience, and training.
• 10+ years leading concept, design, narrative and art direction in a branded content, agency, editorial or marketing environment.
• Further understanding and engagement with North American sneaker, music, fashion and retail culture will benefit this creative leader.
• Proven ability to translate sport and culture into world-class creative that connects emotionally and globally.
• Experienced creative leader and mentor, with a passion for helping everyone on the team to grow, succeed, and advance toward collective and individual goals.
• Proven depth of experience in commissioning and directing across a multitude of different digital and physical platforms and channel environments.
• Existing relationships within the creative industry, including external talent, photographers, typographers, designers, architects etc.
• Excellent verbal and visual communication skills.
• Experience leading a creative studio and talent across various locations preferred.
• Depth of experience across digital, online, print, and experiential design, with a solid understanding of content and social platforms.
• Highly proficient in design, typography, and retouching using Adobe Creative Suite plus other software such as Figma.
• Astute attention to detail and meticulous organizational skills.

Preferred

• Existing relationships within the creative industry, including external talent, photographers, typographers, designers, architects etc.
• Astute attention to detail and meticulous organizational skills.