Lead Designer, Brand Concepts Global - Converse at Nike

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $102,800.00 in our lowest geographic market to $210,000.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience.

Information about benefits can be found here.

ABOUT OUR TEAM – Global Concepts Team (Converse)

The Converse Global Concepts team exists as the connective tissue between innovation, design, brand storytelling, and marketplace experiences. Brand Concepts is the anchor point for our products, stories, experiences, and moments—built to inspire Creators and embrace subcultures. We ensure Converse’s long-term vision is expressed through compelling narratives, world building, and deeply grounded cultural fluency.

Working upstream, we translate emerging cultural signals, creator insights, and consumer behaviors into visionary product direction, brand stories, and environmental concepts—with the end consumer experience in mind. Our team spans a broad range of creative capabilities across brand touchpoints and anchors upstream creative strategy to drive aligned, end-to-end excellence across product creation, merchandising, brand creative, and retail.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a Lead Designer for the Global Brand 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. We are looking for someone that has experience leading and driving large creative projects with cross-functional partners. This is a multi-faceted creative role for a designer who can move fluidly across2D storytelling and presentation craft and3D 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.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

If this is you, you’ll help 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

• 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

• Collaborating with internal 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

• Prototyping and building models/environments to create excitement and clarity around future ideas

• Presenting Brand Concepts and Creative Vision to Senior Leadership

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will work closely with Product, Design, Brand Experience, Brand Creative, Marketing, and Merchandising partners to 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 work to life.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in communications design, architecture, industrial design, environmental design, graphic design, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 7+ years of progressive, technically sophisticated design experience in experiential, environmental, industrial design, or brand creative—with demonstrated impact elevating brand excellence

• A well-curated portfolio showcasing a strong methodology across research, inspiration, development, process, and final execution

• Ability to show concepts through 3D modeling and rendering; proficiency in Sketch Up, Rhino, Cinema 4D, Blender, or similar

• High proficiency in 2D design + presentation tools (Keynote, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, Figma)

• Expert craft with materials palettes and environmental toolkits

• Experience presenting large creative projects to internal and external leadership teams

• Strong narrative development and communication skills; ability to present to leadership and external partners using creative presentation styles that win alignment and investment

• Proven ability to work independently and across small/large groups on complex projects in a fast-evolving environment

• Positive, inclusive, team-first mindset—embracing diverse points of view while fostering an environment of belonging

Preferred

• Experience with product + prop styling and translating consumer styling into concept work

• Experience creating 3D environments and art; willingness to prototype and build tangible expressions of ideas

• Demonstrated success leading agencies/external creatives in service of a broader brand vision

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.

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