Color Design 3Hybrid

Title: Color Design 3

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 5 months contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The nature of the work is focused on the appearance of product, communications, or collateral materials.

Color Design Execution - Plans and executes color designs.

• Collaborates with design, product marketing, development and material consultants to focus color solutions for market success.
• Reviews all samples to achieve marketable solution review with design, marketing and development.
• Clearly communicates all changes for final confirmation.
• Displays advanced knowledge and practices in all phases of product execution - shares knowledge with others.
• Maintains color calendar/timelines/deadlines for category/division resulting in the timely completion of each product.
• Develops line art, color design server, GPIN, merchandising line, cutting samples & working with material consultant to coordinate materials for products.
• Finalizes product details and proactively follows through on execution of color on each product.
• Researches and delivers color, Color Solutions - Creates innovative, retainable color solutions for category or gender-specific line.
• Researches and delivers color, design, market and lifestyle trends that influence and impact the product category process from product briefing to product concept to samples.
• Explores options and proposes with Color Design Managers and/or senior Color Designers a seasonal color strategy for products, line segments and initiatives.
• Creates seasonal category-specific direction of color, materials and graphics.
• In partnership with the Category and Design Director, creates and leads color merchandising strategies and stories seasonally.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Skill Development - Develops excellence as a color designer.

• Together with Color Design Manager, advances the value of color to Nike by bringing a high level of functional expertise (i.e. materials, special effects, technology, advanced development, presentation, tools) to the color design organization.
• Educates and mentors more junior designers in category or color design organization.
• Undertakes projects and opportunities to enhance knowledge of the business, color, and design.
• Typically requires a Bachelors Degree and minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience
• Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 3 yrs; Masters + 4 yrs; Associates degree + 6 yrs; High School + 7 yrs.