[Hiring] Lead, Global Brand Narrative & Writing @Nike

Role Description

Lead, Global Brand Narrative & Writing at Nike Inc. involves developing strategies and plans to promote products and services to individuals or organizations. Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting business growth via creative development, market research, and disseminating materials that promote a favorable view of offerings.
• Delivering creative concepts, manifestos, athlete storytelling, and creative messaging across all channels.
• Collaborating with Brand Narrative, Art Directors, and Designers to shape concepts.
• Helping shape long-term and seasonal creative concepts in partnership with the Brand Narrative team and Art Direction teams.
• Delivering best-in-class brand storytelling, with deliverables ranging from manifestos and social content to digital campaign content, headlines, and scriptwriting.
• Ensuring content meets and exceeds the highest standards: always on-brand, culturally aware, sport-authentic, platform right, distinctive, and engaging.
• Working strategically to drive brand awareness and deliver strong engagement through creative deliverables.
• Keeping up to date with emerging trends in sports, design, culture, (social) media, and technology as relevant to Nike and the production and marketing throughout the creative process.
• Ensuring all projects are well-planned, creatively exceptional, and delivered on-time.
• Reviewing project work for the highest standards of quality, consistency, accuracy, and successful completion.

Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the U.S., except from AK, AL, AR, DE, HI, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MT, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, RI, SD, VT, WV, and WY.

Qualifications

• Must have a Master’s degree in Fine Arts, Writing, Journalism, Advertising, Art, or Design.
• 2 years of experience in the job offered or a Marketing-related occupation.

Requirements

• Driving narratives and collaboration across multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring that all work is executed against the seasonal strategy.
• Creating and leading Keynote decks for review across leadership teams.
• Writing acumen demonstrating an awareness of the vernacular for a specific sport field of play.
• Leading dynamic conversations for client insights and quotes.
• Figma expertise for cross-functional collaboration and prototyping.
• Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign for visual design and creation.
• Keynote presentation skills.
• Professional video and audio using DSLR or mobile devices for interview documentation.
• File organization and digital asset workflow management.

Benefits

• 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.