Senior Digital Designer, Design Systems

Shape Nike’s digital design future as a Senior Digital Designer supporting the Podium Design System team in Beaverton, OR (onsite).

Responsibilities

• Co-create the Podium design system to translate Nike’s brand into widely loved digital experiences.
• Design and develop highly flexible, reusable UI that can be applied across Nike’s digital product portfolio.
• Work alongside 2 Lead Designers and a Lead Engineer in a fluid, collaborative model.
• Partner with product teams using and implementing Podium, including collaboration, support, and user testing.
• Drive decision-making, inform strategic thinking, and execute detailed design for the Podium Design System.
• Deliver polished digital experiences that help Nike products inspire and support business planning, ordering, and selling.
• Lead large-scope initiatives that blend strategic thinking with systems-level craftsmanship.
• Contribute to Podium outputs including components, tokens, guidance, AI tooling, and integrations into product domains.
• Drive design execution across multiple project tracks and medium-to-large project features.
• Take proactive ownership at project edges where requirements and design objectives may be ambiguous.
• Rapidly iterate from initial briefing through final delivery and refinement of design concepts.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional group including producers, product managers, design operations, engineers, researchers, and designers.
• Develop design solutions using participatory and iterative methods such as user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, and workshops/brainstorms.
• Produce visual comps, wireframes, flows, and prototypes that represent the Nike brand and product experience.
• Mentor fellow designers and interns with feedback that strengthens craft and skills.
• Evangelize Nike’s design culture by strengthening internal initiatives and influencing how teams approach design problems.
• Communicate design intentions and build alignment around ideas, including establishing a consistent look and feel across large projects.
• Participate in launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization.
• Author design system documentation site content (not limited to Figma-only delivery).

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant experience in end-to-end digital product design, with proven visual and UX capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in design or a related field; suitable combinations of education, experience, and training will be considered.
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, and execution.
• Ability to deliver high-quality, end-to-end design solutions that uphold Nike quality standards.
• Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA expertise.
• Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based process.
• Strong collaboration experience with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers, and marketers.
• Solid design process with strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with consumer research and data.
• Design systems experience, including tokens, components, and Figma code parity.
• AI fluency, including Cursor/agents and structured content for machine readability (Podium AGENTS.md / MCP direction).
• Horizontal partnership experience across Podium and with design-system consumers.
• Experience with enterprise or high-density internal tooling UIs.
• Ability to reconcile subsystem libraries with a core design system.
• Motion design experience.
• Light engineering familiarity, including React/TypeScript components, CSS custom properties, and npm publish patterns.

Technologies

• Figma
• Cursor
• React
• TypeScript
• CSS custom properties
• npm
• Podium AGENTS.md

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: A recruiter will reach out to start the interview process and be your main contact; for retail roles, complete an interactive assessment with a chat and quizzes (about 10-20 minutes).
• 03 Interview: Prepare by researching Nike and understanding what the team is looking for, then be ready for questions about your background and experience.