Lead Designer, NikeSKIMS Apparel Graphics Design
Nike
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- Salary
- $108.5k/yr
- H-1B history
- 111 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Aug 14, 2026
About this role
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $108,500.00 in our lowest geographic market to $220,400.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience. Information about benefits can be found here . NikeSKIMS combines the best of both brands – Nike’s legacy of innovation and athlete insights with SKIMS dedication to the female form, and inclusive solutions for every body. We're carving out a bold and unique position in the global fitness industry, delivering innovation and style the industry hasn’t seen before. We’re excited to invite more women into sport and movement with products that make them feel strong and sexy. WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH? On a day-to-day basis you will be working with a wide range of internal partners including Footwear, Color and Apparel Designers, Developers, and Product Line Managers. You will collaborate with multiple teams to deliver creative solutions in line with the NikeSKIMS Design Ethos. This opportunity will require strong collaborative skills to meet timelines, ensure design feasibility, and build consensus around your work. WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? As the Lead Designer, Graphic Design, you are exceptional product design storyteller with proven design excellence, curiosity, problem solving tenacity, and a passion for making those around them better. This role brings a unique perspective into the women’s sport market and creating products that makes them feel strong and sexy. The role requires a strong understanding of culture and style, and the ability to translate insights into compelling, product-relevant graphics for apparel and footwear. You play a key role to execute design and development of head-to-toe graphics and branding elements. You have an affinity for world-building and storytelling through graphic design, integrating narrative elements that resonate with our consumer muse. You have a passion for innovation and an eye for blending sport culture and irreverent style. You are skilled and experienced at supporting a design vision, while remaining hands-on in product creation, ideation, and product development process. You thrive in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment and embrace ambiguity and dynamic workflow. You are a creative contributor and teammate who elevates the room. You know how to push an idea further, clarify what’s missing, and bring structure to ambiguity. You work confidently across product categories, from trend discovery and experiential direction to product storytelling and graphic language. You stay tapped into the communities and cultures and bring that fluency into concepts. An experienced Graphic Designer with a strong foundation across footwear, apparel, accessories, and lifestyle, capable of driving graphic design expression across all pillars within the Energy category construct. A true team player, expected to actively design and contribute at a high level, owning key bodies of work, seasonal moments, and special projects. A highly organized systems thinker, comfortable operating in ambiguity, managing multiple timelines and work streams, and navigating cross-functional constraints while maintaining clarity, momentum, and creative excellence. Deeply curious and culturally fluent, plugged into design, music, fashion, sport, and emerging creative communities, using insight and observation and not trend-chasing to inform graphic design decisions. A highly organized systems thinker, comfortable operating in ambiguity, managing multiple timelines and work streams, and navigating cross-functional constraints while maintaining clarity, momentum, and creative excellence. WHAT YOU BRING TO NIKESKIMS A successful candidate will be expected to clear demonstrate and articulate experience essential requirement below, to be considered. Candidates that meet these criteria will then be assessed based on the competencies also outlined below. To be considered,