Senior Manager, Kids Footwear Product Design, Global Jordan

The Sr. Manager, Kids Footwear helps shape the creative direction and execution of Jordan Kids Footwear, focusing on high-value, accessible footwear that maintains Jordan's signature craft, cultural resonance, and emotional impact. Reporting to the Sr.

• Translate insights, cultural cues, and consumer behaviour into product that is both accessible and inspiring.
• Partner with the Sr. Product Director, Kids, to define and maintain Product Direction for Kids Footwear.
• Guide designers through world-building work, visual frameworks, narrative tools, and design systems that clarify the role of Kids Footwear within the brand.
• Collaborate with merchandising, product development, materials, colour, and brand partners to ensure alignment and consistency across product creation.
• Drive the seasonal process through briefs, reviews, prototyping, refinement, and cross-functional alignment.
• Maintain clarity and quality across multiple projects, ensuring product meets both design and business expectations.
• Support the exploration of new business opportunities within the Kids offense as the category grows.
• Serve as a connector across Jordan Design and the broader organisation, ensuring product direction, storytelling, and execution are unified and aligned with the Product Direction for Kids Footwear.
• Ensure Kids Footwear reflects Jordan's essence: authentic, culturally connected, emotionally resonant, and crafted with intention.

• Bachelor's degree in Product Design or a related field; will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• A well-curated portfolio demonstrating research depth, conceptual development, design rigour, problem solving, and high-quality final execution.
• Experience working directly with a broad range of consumers and athletes, and the ability to translate insight into meaningful product direction.
• Proven contribution to initiating, developing, and implementing research that uncovers new opportunities for product and process.
• A self-initiated, entrepreneurial approach to innovation and creative solution-building.
• Understanding of innovative methods of make and sustainability-focused design.
• A track record of commercialised footwear products or innovations delivered to market.
• Experience leading teams through ambiguity, clarifying direction, and driving concept work toward successful outcomes.
• Ability to prioritise across seasonal work and long-term initiatives with differing levels of complexity.
• Skill in building and maintaining design vision end-to-end, ensuring product stays aligned with strategy.
• Advanced project management skills and the ability to organise meetings, timelines, and deliverables across partners.
• A self-starter mentality, driven by curiosity, initiative, and action.
• Ability to articulate creative direction in a way that inspires and mobilises others.
• Experience mentoring designers and guiding team dynamics.
• Strong collaboration instincts and the ability to influence across a matrixed organisation.