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At Nike, your career can be both inspiring and unconventional. Meet Caroline Abero, the Senior Creative Director for Women’s Footwear Color, who doesn’t hold a design degree. She shares how her Nike Design career journey was built on saying yes to new challenges, learning from mentors and choosing to always experiment and expand her skillsets. Come Craft the Future with us: jobs.nike.com/design.
March is Women's History Month, a time to commemorate and encourage the study, observance and celebration of the vital role women have played in American history. At Nike, we don’t just celebrate women in March, but every day. We believe that the best teams are diverse teams, and that women are fundamental in our success. That’s why we invest in bringing together a roster of innovative and inspiring women that reflect the global athletes we serve. By coming up and collaborating as one, we not only play and progress together, but we champion real change. Join our winning team.
On International Womens Day, a day of championing women, our Women of Nike & Friends Network held a body inclusive plus size fashion show featuring employees rocking our newest for-her innovations! You can get the looks for yourself by clicking the link!
Collaboration and communal belonging is at the heart of Nike Design. Indah Nur, Material Designer for Kids Footwear, finds one of her favorite parts about Nike design culture is the collaborative spaces, and how it brings the company’s diverse creatives all together under one roof. Come Craft the Future with us: jobs.nike.com/design.
We are so proud of our Year One Academy graduates 🎉 The Academy is the brain-child of our Business Diversity and Inclusion team, and acts as a six-month training program designed to foster diversity among Nike’s suppliers, at no cost to them. The program brings together diverse suppliers across all functions of our business and helps them develop their skills in business growth, communication and networking. The Year One cohort graduated last fall and we threw a two-day celebration at Nike’s World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oreg. in their honor. Watch the video to see why our Nike employees are psyched to support this work and hear from some of the Year One graduates.
At Nike, our designers bring their authentic selves to every product, every meeting, every conversation. Mansoor Amjed knows the authenticity that Nike designers bring to their craft will always push the company to be better. “When I came to Nike, I knew it was my contribution to bring new ideas as a designer,” says Amjed, who works as a color design director for lifestyle footwear. “We always need to think about whether we’re including all voices — for who we’re representing and who we’re designing for.” Learn more about Nike’s design community and Craft the Future with us: jobs.nike.com/design.
Originally from Mexico, Rolando Hernández began his professional career by carving a path in industrial design. Now, as a creative lead for women’s lifestyle footwear at Nike, he’s honed a passion for footwear design, working on some of Nike’s most innovative performance shoes, such as the Nike Tempo, and partnering with the “best creative community in the world.” Learn more about our design community here: jobs.nike.com/design
In celebration of Black History Month, Nike is honoring Black achievement by sharing visibility to the people and organizations combatting systemic racism and creating change in their communities and beyond. “We believe that our year-round commitment to championing, amplifying and investing in the well-being of Black communities — nationally and locally — has the power to drive transformative change,” said Karol Collymore (she/her), Senior Director of Inclusive Community for Social & Community Impact, NIKE, Inc. In advance of announcing our most recent Black Community Commitment grantees, Collymore led a panel discussion last week at Nike’s NYC HQ with three amazing female BCC leaders — Dr. Patrice Johnson, Chief Program Officer of Black Girls Code, Dr. Lena Green, Executive Director of The Hope Center in NYC, and Melanie Campbell, President & CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. Click the link below to learn more about how Nike is supporting and investing in the Black community.
A planetary physicist by training, Eric King joined Nike’s Advanced Innovation Center as Exploration Director to make real, sustainable change on a systemic level. He’s also one of the internal experts whose thoughts are featured in our new book, “No Finish Line,” Nike’s design vision for the next 50 years. “I came to Nike because I think some of this change needs to come from the private sector and Nike is uniquely capable of driving change on a mass scale," says Eric. "If we can show what that future looks like and start acting on it, we can bring the whole industry with us. And if we change our industry, it's likely that adjacent industries will come along too.” For more insight into Nike’s culture of innovation — and our athletes’, designers’ and scientists’ hopes for the future — pick up a copy of “No Finish Line,” out today from Actual Source and in select bookstores around the world.
Raffaella Barbey, Senior Creative Director for Womens Apparel Lifestyle at Nike has a message to future designers interested in working at Nike: show who you are, stand out, be passionate and be open to be challenged. Come Craft the Future with us: jobs.nike.com/design.
