Lead Professional, Brand Creative, Art Direction, Agile

Sits within Nike's Brand Creative team at the European Headquarters in the Netherlands and reports to the Creative Director. The Senior Creative leads complex workstreams and project teams across multiple workstreams, working with Designers, Producers, Strategists and Writers as well as external creatives and agencies. The role focuses on strategising, ideating, developing and crafting creative concepts for product launches, sport moments, campaigns and consumer experiences across EMEA, across all Nike sport categories.

• Lead complex creative workstreams and project teams across multiple workstreams.
• Strategise, ideate, develop and craft creative concepts for product launches, sport moments, campaigns and consumer experiences across EMEA.
• Work across all Nike sport categories, adapting to a wide range of creative briefs.
• Collaborate with Designers, Producers, Strategists and Writers within Brand Creative.
• Commission and work with external creatives and agencies across multiple fields.
• Partner with Brand Marketing, Retail Marketing, Partner Marketing and Sports Marketing at EMEA and city level.

• Genuine passion for sport and athletes.
• Multidisciplinary senior creative deeply connected to sports, athletes and youth culture.
• Art direction visionary with experience executing across various mediums including art direction, graphic design, typography and spatial design.
• Experience in art direction and design within an agency or brand with a strong focus on sport, sport lifestyle and culture.
• Experience leading projects and teams across concepting, art direction, design, production and execution stages.
• Mastery of art direction and design, delivering outstanding art direction, photography, graphic design, video content, experiences and digital design.
• Ability to articulate original concepts that are insight-driven, on strategy and answer the brief.
• Ability to turn insights and ideas into bold, innovative and clear concepts.
• Experience working on complex projects and ability to navigate complex creative challenges.
• Proven experience conceptualising and leading photoshoots and video shoots.
• Ability to build trust and collaborate across teams, functions and regions.
• Comfort navigating diverse stakeholders and feedback.
• Proven leadership of large-scale creative projects.
• Clear, confident and influential presentation skills.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and consistently lead with bold, innovative ideas.

• European Headquarters in the Netherlands