• Lead production strategy for Nike programs, balancing creative ambition with operational feasibility. • Develop comprehensive budgets ($1M+), staffing models, and logistical frameworks for simultaneous projects. • Collaborate with Creative, Client Services, and Nike stakeholders to align scope with brand goals. • Pressure-test creative concepts against operational realities to ensure flawless execution. • Build and manage multi-million-dollar budgets with accuracy, transparency, and profitability. • Anticipate changes, address scope shifts quickly, and maintain alignment with Nike’s evolving priorities. • Create detailed production timelines with multiple overlapping workstreams, ensuring on-time delivery under compressed schedules. • Act as lead producer for Nike’s highest-profile events and activations, managing large multi-disciplinary teams of producers, coordinators, and freelancers. • Provide oversight and mentorship on mid-size projects, empowering direct reports to lead while ensuring quality control. • Maintain visibility across programs, ensuring promises made during pitches are delivered in execution. • Build, manage, and negotiate with Nike’s global vendor network across fabrication, AV, graphics, staffing, and logistics. • Ensure vendor alignment with Nike’s standards for quality, innovation, and operational excellence. • Partner with internal Experiential Operations to expand and refine preferred partner networks for global execution. • Serve as a key production voice in high-level Nike meetings, representing feasibility and operational strategy. • Partner seamlessly with Nike’s internal stakeholders, athletes, and brand teams, ensuring experiences are athlete-first, culturally sensitive, and aligned with Nike’s sports heritage. • Lead cross-functional collaboration across Production, Creative, Client Services, and external partners. • Help evolve Nike-specific systems, tools, and templates to improve speed, accuracy, and efficiency. • Share learnings across the Production team to elevate executional consistency across Nike programs.