Job title: Senior Director, Art Direction – Global Jordan
Company: Nike
Job description: WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The Jordan Sr Director – Art Direction, is responsible for the “look & feel” of the entire Jordan Brand across all consumer touchpoints and across all our business segments from Sport to Streetwear. You will oversee 3 Departments: Art Direction, Retail Design, and Styling & VMS. You will lead the Art Direction of all Jordan brand campaigns, all Jordan digital executions and all Jordan retail design executions to ensure a cohesive vision across the entire consumer journey!
You will lead teams of multi-disciplinary designers across projects, to deliver innovative & well-crafted physical and digital executions. You will drive design excellence with key partners and ensure that the team delivers integrated creative against the seasonal strategy.
You are an experienced people manager who mentors art directors, retail designers and stylists and builds opportunities for individual development, performance management, recognition and rewards. This leader will implement the creative vision for Jordan Brand initiatives through all 3 departments in a way that supports premium Jordan Brand consumer experiences, and the Jordan Design ethos. You will also elevate the consumer experience through outstanding brand appearance of product, athlete and entertainer storytelling, communications, collateral materials, digital design on .com, social media, app, email and retail design worldwide. Encouraging and leading innovative thinking, collaboration, and partnership. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
- Lead the Art Direction team, providing leadership, inspiration, mentorship, support and direction. Encourage excellence, ambition, and team spirit.
- Work on all new and existing Jordan Retail doors.
- Lead the Jordan Styling & VMS retail team.
- Work strategically to drive brand awareness and deliver strong engagement through creative results.
- Deliver outstanding photography, video content, retail design and experience, digital design and experience in service of the categories, consumers, and culture.
- Obsess the nuances of digital design across our entire ecosystem—at times, working between marketing, design, and product teams
- Work with the Jordan Brand Creative Director to develop the strategy, concept and visual direction.
- Develop and strengthen relationships with photographers, filmmakers, artists, illustrators, designers, and their agents for editorial creative, working strategically with other leads in the business to ensure the strongest approach to external talent.
- Keep up to date with Basketball culture at large, emerging trends in fashion, urban culture, design, film, art, media, social media and technology as relevant to Jordan and the design team.
- Collaborate with marketing, tech, retail, photography and editorial to lead teams through creative concept process and projects.
- Ensure all projects are well-planned, creatively extraordinary, and delivered timely.
- Identify needs for training and development, coaching and mentoring.
- Review project work for highest standards of quality, consistency, accuracy and successful completion.
- Collaborate with the larger Jordan Design team to evaluate the creative process and continually improve it. Be a conduit between Product Creation and Brand Creative.
You will report directly to the Jordan Chief Design Officer, and will partner with the Jordan Brand Creative Director, as well as your Brand Creative Studio teammates, Consumer Direct Marketing (Digital/Retail/Services), Merchandising, Global and Geo Brand Marketing teams, and Global Jordan Design Studio. The team you will be lead consists of roughly 20 people.
WHAT YOU BRING
- 10+ years leading concept, design and art direction in a branded content, agency, editorial or marketing environment.
- Bachelor/Master degree in Design or related field, or equivalent combination of education, experience and training.
- Great understanding of Retail Design (architectural and in store executions)
- Strong understanding and passion for Streetwear Culture & Styling.
- A passion for the Athlete*, and a special focus on Basketball culture
- A strong knowledge of capturing sport performance (especially Basketball)
- Ability to create seasonal concepts, and provide the team with both short and long term vision
- Experience building inspiration/concept presentations, and mood boards for seasonal concepts and direction
- Presentation/Communication style: Clear, Concise, and Thoughtful (strong verbal and written skills). Ability to present new ideas or seasonal concepts to small and large groups, including addressing executive leaders, and external partners or customers.
- Contributes strategically to the business component of Jordan Design. Provides ideas that influence, increase and enhance the team and brand.
- Leads as a strategic creative partner to cross-category partners in Brand Marketing
- Phenomenal people-manager and mentor, with a knack and passion for helping everyone on the team—especially senior-level and entrepreneurial talent—to grow, improve, succeed, and advance toward collective and individual goals.
- Substantial experience in commissioning and directing design, photography, and moving image in digital and experience environments.
- Strong relationships with relevant freelance photographers, directors, artists, stylists, etc.
- Excellent verbal and visual communication skills.
- Depth of experience across digital, print, and experiential design, with a solid understanding of content platforms.
- Highly proficient in image creation, design, typography, and retouching using Adobe Creative Suite.
- Astute attention to detail and meticulous organizational skills.
- Experience leading a design studio and talent across various locations preferred.
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Location: Beaverton, OR
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