Product Engineer II, Kids Footwear

Joins the Kid's Division Footwear Product team, dedicated to creating the best footwear for the youngest athletes. It focuses on product creation from initial brief to commercialisation, with a commitment to product excellence in craft, fit, comfort, performance, quality, sustainability, cost/value, and innovation. The engineer collaborates with key functional partners onshore and offshore, including Footwear Product Development, Product Testing, Material Design and Development, Product Design, Product Management, Product Merchandising, Sourcing, Business Operations, Value Engineering, and partners in Asia.

• Collaborate with key functional partners onshore and offshore, including Footwear Product Development, Product Testing, Material Design and Development, Product Design, Product Management, Product Merchandising, Sourcing, Business Operations, Value Engineering, and partners in Asia.
• Navigate the NIKE matrix to ensure processes align with NIKE Footwear Engineering divisional and functional standards and drive product excellence.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for Technical Asia teammates, ensuring clear and accurate communication during product development, commercialisation, and manufacturing.
• Utilise innovative approaches to develop new concepts, influence the design of products and processes, and create refined product specifications from technical drawings and process data.
• Participate in new creation projects and review samples during product creation and commercialisation, providing feedback to ensure cost-effective, high-quality deliverables that meet consumer expectations.
• Provide early recommendations and technical expertise to cross-functional teams on tooling, outsole and midsole compounds, plates, thermoplastic injection, product construction techniques, materials, manufacturing processes, sustainability, cost, and chemical engineering solutions.
• Support chemical engineering solutions including processes, lab testing, MCS, and MPS.
• Drive the continued growth of the team and business by helping to forestall potential manufacturing, sustainability, or cost issues.
• Provide a multi-solution approach and creative problem-solving to deliver sustainable product excellence for consumers.
• Contribute to new engineering best practices and enhance existing practices to improve quality, craftsmanship, performance, and efficiency.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training.
• A minimum of 2 years directly relevant work experience.
• Experience working in Footwear, Product Testing, Development, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
• Self-starter, quick learner, strong communicator, and great teammate with solid technical and leadership skills.
• Ability to navigate between obsessing about product details and craftsmanship and communicating vision and ideas with clarity.
• Ability to communicate proficiently with multiple internal and external partners with in-depth communication and positive energy.
• Comfort starting with a blank canvas, bridging traditional footwear practices inside or outside of NIKE, and fearlessness in driving the future of NIKE footwear.
• Inclination to think out of the box, explore, learn, and find ways to innovate and improve the athlete experience, applying consumer insights and leveraging NSRL science, virtual, mechanical, and athlete testing, and data analytics.
• Experience reading technical drawings, specs, design sketches, and/or 3D digital files and linking them together as a system approach to identify potential problems or challenges and provide complete problem-solving options and solutions.
• Demonstrated understanding of virtual and rapid prototyping methods such as CAD viewing and 3D printing.
• Fundamental knowledge of materials, materials properties, test methods, and applications, with a clear understanding of how they work together within the product creation process as a system rather than a silo approach.
• Ability to identify and drive valuable engineering solutions from the conceptual stage all the way to manufacturing.
• Ability to value differences and work across cultures while navigating NIKE's organisational matrix.

• Basic knowledge of lasts, footwear pattern engineering, tooling, and manufacturing processes.
• Digital literacy, including familiarity with Microsoft Office, Miro Board, spreadsheets, database management, and proficiency with 2D/3D CAD/CAM tools and pattern engineering software.