Senior Expert, Retail Execution Partners Design NA

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH The North America Brand Creative Retail team leads Nike’s retail innovation across the largest geography. We fuse strategy and creativity to shape physical retail experiences that connect athletes* to the future of sport. This role partners closely with NA Retail Accounts Marketing, Retail Brand, Nike Direct Seasonal / Seasonless Retail, and external agencies to deliver unified, premium marketplace executions. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR Nike is searching for a visionary design leader to elevate Partners Seasonless Retail across North America. You think consumer-first, pushing the boundaries of immersive retail while staying grounded in retail realities. You bring deep experience across environmental design disciplines—from materials and fixture systems to spatial design and graphic and digital integration—and can translate complex creative thinking into clear, actionable direction for both internal partners and external agencies.   You stay ahead of cultural, design, and consumer trends, applying that insight to create consistent, scalable retail design across Partners executions. You thrive in ambiguity, navigate multiple projects simultaneously, and know how to influence outcomes at every stage of the creative process. Most importantly, you bring a bold point of view, a collaborative spirit, and an entrepreneurial drive to lead the marketplace into a new era of design excellence.   A senior retail design leader with expertise across wholesale partners, franchise, licensed stores, department stores, concession environments, and shop-in-shop concepts. Able to lead concept design, design development, FF&E, fixture systems, environmental graphics and brand governance. KEY QUALIFICATIONS 10+ years of retail design, architecture, interior design, or experiential design leadership. Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interior design, spatial design, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training. Awareness of trends in color, art, architecture and experience design, graphic design — and their application to the sport industry. Strong attention to detail. Demonstrated experience delivering complex projects of varying scale, budgets, and timelines. Expertise in fixture and production design, materiality, fabrication, and emerging manufacturing trends. Deep experience with partner doors, franchise, license, department store and concession retail environments. Expertise in concept design, design development, FF&E, fixtures, materials and environmental graphics. Proven ability to create and govern retail design standards and implementation guidelines. Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills. Proven ability to lead multiple complex retail design initiatives in ambiguous and fast-moving environments, balancing multiple stakeholder needs, shifting priorities, and time-sensitive deadlines while maintaining exceptional creative and executional standards.   WHAT…