In this onsite leadership role, you will guide narrative-driven graphic design within the Jordan Streetwear TCOE Graphics Team, partnering across Product and Design to shape concepts, presentations, and delivery across global Men’s and Women’s collections.
Role Overview
You will help conceptualize and drive graphic direction across multiple T-shirt collections, presentation gates, and product collaborations. Working with Product and Design leads, you will align on construction, development, insights, and delivery, ensuring creative standards and business requirements are met for Men’s and Women’s collections across geographies.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape and drive graphic design direction across Men’s and Women’s Collections across multiple seasons, geographies, and distribution channels.
- Create T-shirt graphics that can translate effectively across apparel, footwear, and accessories.
- Oversee execution from concept through delivery, championing product integrity, innovation, and performance while managing multiple initiatives across timelines and platforms.
- Develop and apply graphic design strategies that elevate seasonal storytelling through strong conceptual thinking, craft, and attention to detail.
- Manage design presentations and communication by clearly articulating graphic intent and decisions to cross-functional partners, helping projects meet creative standards, timelines, and business needs.
- Act as a driver of innovation by identifying opportunities to expand graphic expression into new spaces while staying aligned with Jordan Streetwear and Jordan Brand principles.
- Serve as a creative partner to internal stakeholders, navigating complexity, incorporating feedback, and balancing creative ambition with operational realities and brand integrity.
What You Will Work On
- Conceptualize narratives across multiple tee collections through Graphic Visual Centers and presentation gates.
- Work with Product and Design leads to align on construction, development, insights, and review moments across the process.
- Collaborate closely with Apparel Design and Product Management leaders and teammates to help create the future of Jordan Streetwear.
- Lead brainstorm sessions focused on creative strategies and attend meetings to review graphics, apparel, and color designs to reach established goals.
Location and Work Setup
This is an onsite position in Beaverton, OR, United States.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant design work experience in a related field.
- BA/BFA preferred in Graphic Design, or an equivalent combination of relevant education, experience, and training.
Portfolio Submission Requirement
To be considered, you must submit a creative design portfolio. Please provide website links or attach PDF files when you apply.
Skills and Experience
- Well-curated portfolio demonstrating a strong, effective methodology for research, inspiration, design development, problem solving, process, and final execution.
- Expert-level graphic design skills across ideation, design development, specification, and final execution, with strong understanding of typography, color theory, brand identity, and visual systems across product and storytelling platforms.
- Experience contributing to the initiation, development, and implementation of in-depth research that supports distinct product storytelling.
- Ability to maintain a positive attitude while working through challenging briefs and ambiguity to successful completion.
- Experience working across multiple timelines and complexity levels, effectively prioritizing short- and long-term workload while maintaining creative excellence and attention to detail.
- Self-awareness with the ability to articulate strengths, opportunities, and key takeaways.
- Staying informed on sport, cultural, and graphic design trends.
- Advancing knowledge of product design, balancing innovation, performance, and style across ideation, development, specification, and final execution.
- Creatively agile approach to visioning and problem solving.
- Expert narrative development and communication, including preparing and delivering project presentations to Senior leadership and External Partners.
- Deep understanding of typography, color theory, brand identity, and design principles.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with effective collaboration across teams.
- Ability to translate storytelling into compelling visual elements that can translate to product.
- Excellent collaboration with cross-functional teams to support product and team excellence.
- Demonstrated ability to present design concepts and strategies to stakeholders, articulating vision and rationale behind creative decisions.
- Passion for mentorship and team development, including self-awareness and reflection on strengths, growth areas, and learnings, both personally and in support of others.
Tools and Technologies
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Rendering/3D design tools (familiarity is a plus)
Who You Will Work With
- Reports to the Director of Jordan TCOE Graphics of Jordan Streetwear.
- Partners with Design Leadership and designers across Streetwear Apparel, Color, and Footwear Design, as well as cross-functional leads across Tech Design, Product Management, and Merchandising.
- Contributes to a graphics design team across various levels, supporting collaboration and encouraging exploration of new ideas and calculated risks.
Interview Process and Accommodations
Accommodations are available to complete the interview process, including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single-location in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.
Hiring Game Plan
- 01 Apply: Review job descriptions, departments, and teams to discover the role for you.
- 02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment: For corporate roles, a recruiter will reach out to begin the interview process. For retail roles, an interactive assessment including a chat and quizzes is completed in about 10 to 20 minutes.
- 03 Interview: Prepare by researching the role, understanding what is being looked for, and reviewing likely questions focused on your background.
