Nike
Senior Manager Design, Brand Concepts
Boston, Massachusetts · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
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About the role
- The annual base salary for this position ranges from $139,700.00 in our lowest geographic market to $294,100.00 in our highest geographic market.
- Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience.
- Brand Concepts is the anchor point for our products, stories, experiences, and moments-built to inspire Creators and embrace subcultures.
Responsibilities
- The Converse Global Concepts team exists as the connective tissue between innovation, design, brand storytelling, and marketplace experiences.
- As our Senior Manager Design, Brand Concepts, you will lead a small team which is responsible for driving the design and creative execution for Global Brand Concepts across each season.
- You will work closely with Product, Design, Brand Experience, Brand Creative, Marketing, and Merchandising partners to create and elevate Converse Concepts and Brand stories with the final consumer experience in mind.
- You'll collaborate with internal and external consumer insights and future-focused strategy teams, and you'll frequently partner with agencies and external creatives to bring these concepts to life.
- You will lead cross-functional brainstorms that help shape our consumer insights and strategic priorities into future concepts.
- You are curious, culturally fluent, and future-minded-energized by connecting emerging signals in culture, technology, architecture, materials, and design into compelling creative direction.
- Building and visualizing "brand worlds" across product, graphics, storytelling, and experiences
- Developing concept explorations across 2D (decks, narratives, graphic systems) and 3D (spaces, environments, objects)
- Creating high-craft presentations that articulate intent, tell a compelling story, and drive cross-functional alignment
- Prototyping and building models/environments to create excitement and clarity around future ideas
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in architecture, industrial design, environmental design, graphic design, communications design, or related field.
- Strong understanding of the competitive fashion, streetwear, and lifestyle brand landscape, with an ability to identify and translate cultural insights into differentiated concepts, product opportunities and narratives
- The ability to remain curious, motivated, and optimistic while navigating ambiguity and adapting to change.
- Ability to show concepts through 3D modeling and rendering
- proficiency in SketchUp, Rhino, Cinema 4D, Blender, or similar
- High proficiency in 2D design + presentation tools (Keynote, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, Figma) [
- Proven ability to work independently and across small/large groups on complex projects in a fast-evolving environment
Compensation
- The annual base salary for this position ranges from $139,700.00 in our lowest geographic market to $294,100.00 in our highest geographic market.
Benefits
- Information about benefits can be found here.
- We ensure Converse's long-term vision is expressed through compelling narratives, world building, and deeply grounded cultural fluency.
Company info
- We are seeking a Senior Manager of Design for the Global Concepts Team with a proven ability to bring brands to life through exceptional storytelling, innovative vision, and world building-across product exploration, environments, and communication design. This is a multi-faceted creative role for a designer and creative leader who can move fluidly across 2D storytelling and presentation craft and 3D environments, shaping work that earns alignment and investment from senior leaders.
- You are curious, culturally fluent, and future-minded-energized by connecting emerging signals in culture, technology, architecture, materials, and design into compelling creative direction. You show up as a dedicated teammate and creative leader: you elevate the room, make the people around you better, and collaborate effectively across both creative and business functions. You bring a builder's mindset-prototyping ideas and making them tangible-while maintaining high craft and clarity in how you communicate.
- We are seeking a Senior Manager of Design for the Global Concepts Team with a proven ability to bring brands to life through exceptional storytelling, innovative vision, and world building-across product exploration, environments, and communication design.
- This is a multi-faceted creative role for a designer and creative leader who can move fluidly across 2D storytelling and presentation craft and 3D environments, shaping work that earns alignment and investment from senior leaders.
- You show up as a dedicated teammate and creative leader: you elevate the room, make the people around you better, and collaborate effectively across both creative and business functions.
- You bring a builder's mindset-prototyping ideas and making them tangible-while maintaining high craft and clarity in how you communicate.
- If this is you, you'll help lead and manage a team to drive creative solutions to large-scale Brand Vision and Experiences-turning cultural insight into future-facing concept direction across products, storytelling, and experiences.
- A typical week may include:
- Translating cultural signals and consumer/creator insights into concept narratives and future visions
- Managing the teams resources and scheduling across creative projects and multi-season work
- Presenting direction and seeking alignment from cross-functional and senior leaders
- Leading brainstorm sessions with cross-functional teams to ensure concepts are feasible, on-brief, and on-time
- Leading and partnering with agencies/external creatives to expand capability and scale creative output
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