Senior Creative Director, Global Running, Brand Design

The Global Sr Creative Director, Running leads a multidisciplinary team across Art & Design Direction, Social & Digital, Voice, Narrative & Writing, and Seasonal Retail Experiences. The role is highly matrixed and partners across brand marketing, strategy, digital marketing, retail, brand experience, concepts, and product teams, as well as with the VP, Global Creative Directors of Brand Design & Brand Voice. It directs and executes world-class creative storytelling for high-impact, multi-million-dollar campaigns, key sport moments, and social-first ideas, from concept through channel execution.

• Indirectly lead teams across disciplines within the Global Brand Creative Running team, providing creative leadership, inspiration, mentorship, support, and direction, and encouraging excellence, ambition, and team spirit.
• Work strategically to drive brand awareness and deliver strong engagement through creative deliverables.
• Deliver full end-to-end creative work with clear creative strategy and narrative for every concept, best-in-class art direction, graphic design, social creative thinking, and digital design, bringing stories to life across channels, the retail landscape (owned and partner doors)
• And digital and social platforms.
• Direct and execute high-impact, multi-million-dollar campaigns against specific Sport briefs and key sport moments, lead work across creative disciplines from concept to channel execution, and ensure the team delivers integrated creative solutions against the seasonal strategy.
• Partner upstream with product concept sport leads and help bring a cohesive story through the internal marketing process.
• 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.
• Keep up to date with emerging trends in Running, fashion, design, film, art, media, and technology as relevant to Nike and the creative team.
• Collaborate and partner with discipline leads across Art & Design, Social and Digital, Brand Experience, Narrative & Voice, and Production & Operations.
• Ensure projects are well-planned, creatively exceptional, and delivered on time, working with the operations team to resource projects appropriately and reviewing work for the highest standards of quality, consistency, accuracy, and successful completion.
• Collaborate with the larger team to critically evaluate the creative process and continually improve it.

• Bachelor's degree in design or related field; 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.
• Deep understanding of Running sport and style.
• Deep expertise in Running performance and culture.
• A passion for the athlete, their sport, and its culture.
• Experienced creative leader and mentor, with a passion for helping everyone on the team—especially senior-level and entrepreneurial talent—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.
• Depth of experience across 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 organisational skills.

• Experience leading a design/narrative studio and talent across various locations.