About the Role
Title: Senior Apparel Designer
Brand
Nike
Career area
Design
Location
Beaverton, Oregon
United States
Job ID
R-45779
Job Description:
NIKE, Inc. does more than equip the world’s best athletes. It’s a place to explore potential, erase boundaries and push the limits of what you can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks out achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc., it’s about every person bringing their skills and passion to a challenging, ever-evolving game.
NIKE, Inc. designs the future. At NIKE, Inc., designers pursue their inquiries and create what’s next, shaping culture and enhancing human potential. Design teams include artists, inventors and specialists—all with distinct approaches—including materials and color experts, graphic, apparel and footwear designers. Nike designers look to the future and are passionate about pursuing materials, ideas and shapes that further enhance the athlete experience, raise the bar on modern style and decrease environmental impact.
Senior Apparel Designer – NIKE, Inc. – Beaverton , OR. Design Nike product through practical insights, knowledge of construction, trims, and materials to produce innovative apparel that reflect Nike design ethos and philosophies; develop concept and seasonal designs that may span across a variety of product types including lifestyle, performance, gender-fluid, knits, woven, tops, and bottoms; attend fit sessions with a discerning eye to develop premier product with a stitch-for-stitch obsession across various levels of distribution and price-point; partner across design, business, materials, and categories to ideate, present, develop, and problem-solve through every step towards commercialization; oversee wear-testing processes, managing product costs, developing concepts and mockups, and material development; prepare presentation materials around seasonal design narratives, toolboxes, and frameworks to communicate design-intent across styles and collections: help support teammates across various needs and share knowledge to develop talent across our team; work with cross-functional members within Nike in graphic design, color design, technical design, costing & sourcing, and product line management; build relationships with Nike product categories, innovation, and material development counterparts; and work across a number of functions all with the goal of achieving commercial-ready products on-time and on-budget. Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the US, except from AK, AL, AR, DE, HI, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MT, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, RI , SD, VT, WV, and WY.
Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, or Apparel design and two (2) years of experience in job offered or in a designer-related occupation. Experience must include:
- Pattern making
- Illustration
- 3D rendering (CLO)
- Apparel Design
- Material/Textile design
- Technical Design
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- BOM Creation
- Prototype fit comments
- Technical drawing and specification package creation
- Negotiating cost of goods
- Design to factory process coordination
- Presenting creative concepts