Even before the pandemic, brands like Nike were pushing for innovative ways to engage with customers and reinvigorate their retail stores. With destinations like the Nike Shanghai House of Innovation and Nike Soho storefront, fans of the beloved brand went for the shoes and stayed for the experience. As fashion and retail businesses look to expand their approaches to retail design, Nike is searching for a new crop of designers to help imagine the future of retail.

As part of Archinect's job highlights series, we recently showcased an opportunity to work as a Project Designer for a firm specializing in living walls and green roofs. This week, we're profiling the Nike/Jordan Brand as they search for a Global Retail Designer.

The position is located in Portland, Oregon near Nike's World Headquarters. This job is ideal for a design professional who is not only passionate about the brand but someone with "diverse experience, problem-solving abilities, cultural pulse, and creativity to help build and inspire the future of Jordan Brand Design," shares Nike in its ad on Archinect Jobs.

The ideal candidate must have a Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interior design, or environmental design and a minimum of five years of experience, according to the company. The position will have the newly appointed designer reporting directly to the Jordan Retail Design – Design Director while "regularly partnering with other design and cross-functional team members including Jordan Direct Studio, Retail Concepts, One Creative Studio, Stores Marketing, Footwear, and Apparel Designers, and Brand Managers."

The company never shies from sharing its retail store's history and approach to retail design. After opening its first flagship store over 25 years ago, Nike continued to push what it means to create the ideal user experience for their customers. 

While the pandemic has caused businesses to rethink the buying experience, Nike searches for a new Global Retail Designer who can take on "consumer-led global retail concepts, global stores, seasonal retail initiatives, and the evolution of the Jordan retail business." For this position, the designer will work under the direction of a Design Director and collaborate in the "design and development of innovative and original retail environments globally that reflect Jordan Brand's design ethos and enhance the consumer retail experience."

In 2018, Archinect reported on the opening of Nike's new NYC flagship store. The brand expressed it would be the "Face of Living Retail" by focusing its efforts and attention on integrating the digital consumer experience into a reinvented brick-and-mortar retail concept. "Nike is approaching their retail stores with the same driving force that propels them to the forefront of the sports industry," we reported. "Many people have their qualms about Nike. Never shying from the press it receives, the brand and its design team are pushing the limits when it comes to experiential design." 

If you are interested in exploring this new job opportunity with Nike, learn more about the position here.

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