Product Designer - Bag Design

Title: Product Designer


Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 6 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.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

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.

Ideation & Visioning - Generates new ways of thinking about aspects of performance based products that result in growth opportunities and competitive advantages in the marketplace.

• Develops ideas that are consistent with the vision for new products by collaborating with product creation on the genesis of new product concepts for all Nike business units.

Research/Engineering - defines protocol and establishes scope of testing required to prove and validate a concept.

• In line with advanced knowledge of the consumer, business, and performance requirements, develops concrete insights which feed into the development of advanced product concepts through the use of new technologies or construction processes.
• Delivers proof of concept by turning concepts and new product visions into reality.
• Identifies key elements of product construction materials and processes.
• Engineers prototypes.

Project Management - Enables the development of innovation projects turning concept ideation into reality by working in, or with, multi-disciplinary teams to include product creation, manufacturing, and 3rd party vendors.

• Meets complex challenges with imaginative state of the art approaches supported by feasible solutions.

Communication - assists in preparation of reports and presenting results and market concepts at the functional department level.

• Clearly and concisely communicates the knowledge required and best practices assist transition of technology to product.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5+ years in technical bag design
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience with building technical elements of bag design, this role is more technical minded than creative
• Experience creating tech packs for bag design
• Portfolio: technical drawings, bag design examples, ideally more on the utilitarian side than the fashion side

Nice to have skills:

• Using designs built from AI and making it a real product that factories can make, will have some creative input but is mostly working with existing ideas
• Experience connecting with factories and internal tech development teams

• Published on 01 Jun 2026, 11:13 PM