Technical Designer

Title: Technical Designer 3

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 9 months contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

The nature of the work is focused on research and development of products from conception to retail to meet the needs of accounts and consumers.

• Collaborates with Marketing/Design to interpret design concept into 2- dimensional patterns.
• Consults with product triad to clarify concepts and lend pattern-making and fit technical expertise.
• Creates first models from concept pictures.
• Incorporates styling and fit changes determined by design/marketing/development during fit sessions or design process.
• Inspects and critiques samples.
• Creates and/or revises product specifications with construction details for production.
• Ensures specifications detail construction methods that optimizes profitability.

• Typically requires a Bachelors Degree and minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience
• Note:
  
  One of the following alternatives may be accepted:
  PhD or Law + 3 yrs;
  Masters + 4 yrs;
  Associates degree + 6 yrs;
  High School + 7 yrs.