Digital Creation Leader II

Description

As our Digital Creation Leader II, you'll utilize advanced digital skills to facilitate the creation of 3D product that appropriately reflect NIKE's design philosophy and standards. You'll use these skills to provide industry leading apparel simulation, ideation, photo realistic and sketch rendering, animation, and digital presentation. You'll lead a Nike sport category in driving digital creation from ideation through commercialization and act as the "in-category" digital mentor for the category product team; providing technical expertise and tactical support to category design, development, product management, and Asia manufacturing teams. You'll maintain and continually expand upon expert knowledge of digital creation tools and processes and stay current with industry digital creation innovations and standards. Further, you'll demonstrate expert understanding of the product development process and share this knowledge with the Nike digital 3D community. In addition, you'll work with digital creation counterparts to ensure the continued development of innovative digital techniques and processes while creating/presenting information that effectively communicates digital creation tools and processes to a variety of audiences.

EXECUTION
• Work with state of the art 3D and 2D digital design, simulation, prototyping, and imaging tools; applying them across the apparel product creation process
• Prototype Creation - Provide information and data necessary to develop product prototypes
• Process/Timeline - Manage digital design processes to ensure design deliverables and timelines are met.
LEADERSHIP
• Lead category digital creation process from ideation through go to market (GTM)
• Ensure cross-functional teamwork occurs in an appropriate manner to enable the execution of key digital creation process dates and gates
• Develop, manage, and operationalize short/long-term category goals critical to category digital evolution across design, development, engineering, and product management
• Lead category design counterparts to ensure innovative manufacturing opportunities and processes are followed
• Work with development team to leverage digital assets for commercialization and downstream purposes
PROCESS INNOVATION
• Closely collaborate with Digital Creation Leader counterparts and category product creation teams to establish tool and process application consistency within and across product categories
• Anticipate, develop and utilize new technologies that bring innovation to Nike's digital design processes and ensure continued development of innovative modeling techniques and processes
• Understand and utilize new technologies that bring innovation to NIKE design and development process
MENTORING
• Act as an "in-category" digital tool and process mentor for product creation teams
• Provide technical expertise and tactical support to Design, Development, Engineering, Innovation, Asia Nike Liaison and Asia Product Creation Center teams
• Work with design management and/or senior designers to actively gain experience, enhance digital design skills and increase knowledge of Nike's design philosophy, products and processes
• Designer Support -Actively provide digital design support for design staff as required to execute seasonal deliverables
• Partner with category to set team and individual goals that align with departmental/functional goals