Lead, Footwear Color & Materials Designer, Local Creation GC

This role involves leading seasonal colour and material direction for assigned Greater China sportswear footwear projects, aligned with global creative direction, sport intent, product briefs, and local consumer opportunity, and translate Greater China consumer, cultural, and marketplace insights into clear colour and material strategies.

• Lead seasonal colour and material direction for assigned Greater China sportswear footwear projects, aligned with global creative direction, sport intent, product briefs, and local consumer opportunity.
• Translate Greater China consumer, cultural, and marketplace insights into clear colour and material strategies.
• Create original palettes, colour-blocking systems, material concepts, finishes, trims, and product details that strengthen both sportswear purpose and product emotion.
• Set the product point of view across broader or more complex programmes, including projects spanning multiple consumer groups, price points, product types, or seasonal tracks.
• Connect individual product decisions to broader franchise, category, seasonal, and marketplace strategy.
• Lead material briefs and work with Development and material partners to explore, test, refine, and commercialise material applications.
• Review prototypes and samples, resolve colour and material achievability issues, and protect design intent through final execution.
• Build consumer stories, concept narratives, product presentations, and broadcast materials that clearly communicate the 'why' behind the work.
• Make informed decisions around cost, feasibility, sustainability, timing, and product quality.
• Guide project teams through ambiguity, changing inputs, and compressed Local Creation timelines.
• Provide craft guidance and mentorship to other designers, helping elevate team standards in colour, material selection, storytelling, and presentation.
• Contribute to the continuing development of Greater China footwear colour and material tools, standards, libraries, and working methods.
• Support required digital product files, CAD pages, line art, and workflow submissions associated with assigned Local Creation projects.

• Typically 5 to 7 years of relevant professional design experience, with demonstrated advanced capability in footwear colour and materials.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong colour sensibility, material thinking, product storytelling, executional craft, and consumer relevance.
• Advanced understanding of colour theory, colour blocking, material selection, material application, finishes, trims, and colour achievability.
• Strong knowledge of footwear construction, manufacturing, product development, and commercialisation.
• Ability to translate consumer, sport, cultural, and marketplace insights into product opportunity.
• Ability to lead complex creative projects with limited direction.
• Strong presentation and communication skills across design, business, and development audiences.
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams and resolving competing creative, technical, and business priorities.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Experience with 3D and AI-enabled visualisation tools such as Vizcom, and collaborative tools such as Miro.
• Ability to travel as required by the role.
• Advanced colour and material craft combined with a strong understanding of sportswear product expression, consumer behaviour, local marketplace needs, and Nike design direction.
• Ability to turn Greater China consumer and marketplace insights into relevant product stories while maintaining product integrity and Nike brand standards.
• Ability to work across franchises, consumer constructs, city stories, cultural moments, and locally identified marketplace needs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through creative influence, establish a compelling point of view, guide complex projects, align partners around design intent, and help elevate the colour and materials capability of the wider team.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Footwear Design, Colour Design, Material Design, Textile Design, Industrial Design, Fashion Design, or a related field is preferred.

• Nike offers a generous total rewards package.
• A casual work environment.
• A diverse and inclusive culture.
• An electric atmosphere for professional development.
• Employees are empowered to grow within Nike and create the future.
• Individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.