Color/ Graphics DesignerHybrid

Title: Color/ Graphics Designer

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 WORK ON

This role focuses on the appearance of product, communications, and collateral materials. The primary focus will be coloring up graphics for t-shirts at high volume. You will work with various types of artwork (vector, CMYK, and bitmap etc.) and produce multiple options for review.

Color Design Execution

• Execute color designs and finalize product details with proactive follow-through
• Seek expert input from color design and category teams to develop appropriate solutions
• Review samples to achieve marketable results in collaboration with design, marketing, and development teams
• Clearly communicate all changes for final confirmation
• Maintain ownership of color in the final product
• Manage color calendars, timelines, and deadlines for the category
• Develop line art, color design server, GPIN, PDM, and merchandising line
• Coordinate cutting samples and materials with the material consultant

Product Planning

• Collaborate with design, product marketing, and development/material consultants to focus color solutions for market success
• Gather category-specific information including consumer insights, channels, and market data
• Develop solutions with regard to quality, cost/value, manufacturability, sustainability, merchandising, and aesthetic finish

Color Solutions

• Create and execute innovative, retailable color solutions for category or gender-specific lines
• Partner with the Color Design Director and senior designers to establish seasonal, category-specific direction for color, materials, and graphics
• Reflect design philosophy, product performance, and targeted consumer appeal in all work
• Build out the category line each season with confidence and creativity
• Understand and apply color, design, market, and lifestyle trends relevant to the category

Consumer Research

• Develop a deep understanding of the consumer and their culture
• Study competitor products, consumer retail habits, and color and market trends
• Apply consumer insights directly into color solutions

Presentations & Communication

• Present category-specific color direction and seasonal color merchandising direction to relevant stakeholders
• Communicate clearly and effectively across design, marketing, and development teams

Skill Development

• Continuously grow expertise in materials, special effects, technology, advanced development, presentation, and tools
• Proactively work with management to advance color design skills, product knowledge, and process understanding
• Contribute to elevating the value of color design across Nike

WHAT YOU BRING

• 3+ years of experience in color graphics; graduate-level candidates considered with proven experience working with AI and PSD files
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Graphics experience in web, industrial, or apparel design
• Ability to work across a wide range of graphics, from logos to highly creative or complex designs
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Experience with AI-based design tools such as Vizcom
• Ability to create polished presentations about your work
• Portfolio demonstrating color use, graphic artwork, and personal projects with strong diversity in work types: must include process descriptions and storytelling

Nice-to-Have Skills

• An excellent color sensibility and knowledge of color theory
• Experience editing pre-existing graphic files and applying pre-developed color palettes
• Background in color design
• Experience with Miro
• Detail-oriented, quick thinker, and strong problem solver