Nike Internship

- Nike brand on the resume opens up doors.
- I think Nike is the top marketer in the world.
- Brand management.
- Access to senior leaders.
- Learned a ton by participating in Asia and US operational calls.
- I'm now a Nike Footwear pro!

It's not easy to land an internship at Nike.

Get creative on the internship application and write a good cover letter. Be passionate about a specific line of Nike business.

- Nike Running Group was growing like crazy. Running is hot right now.
- Very smart brand marketers.
- Digital Exposure.
- Headquarters is like a dream.
- Nike brand.
- Loved the youth running marketing project I worked on.
- Able to bring create ideas to the table.

Lots of support duties and shadowing.

Nike internship positions are close to impossible to come by. My advice is to try to get to know a manager within one of the Nike lines of business. Find a way to network and build a relationship over the course of the school year.

I rotated through and got to see product design, product development, finance, sports marketing and human resources. It was awesome. Nike is a terrific company and I was able to work on a cross-function team that tied these things together for upcoming events like the final four and next years super bowl.

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Work hard and Nike loves student athletes.

Nike is probably the world's best marketer and this is a dream come true internship. I played tennis is college, so working at the US Open to promote Nike was a good opportunity for me. This was also a great chance to learn the business side of sports for me.

I know this looks great on the resume, but I'd love it to lead to a fulltime job with Nike.

I think Nike is looking for smart, passionate (athletes) students. Show them that.

- Amazing brand.
- Everybody at Nike is very intelligent and has a passion for sport. I can't explain it, but you do feel like you are working on something that is more than just a shoe.
- Nike's headquarter facility is very cool.
- Loved my boss and intern peers.

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Make sure you have a passion for the division within Nike that you want to intern for. Example - I love running.

- Cool office.
- Gratifying and challenging work.
- Smart co-workers.
- Managers that took the time to walk me through projects I didn't understand.
- Have Nike on your resume is very, very good.

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Nike recruits interns from all over the country, so don't be afraid to through your hat into the ring.

I had the opportunity to intern in Nike’s tennis division and it was amazing (at their Beaverton, OR campus). My major was Business Administration and I played on the college tennis team, so I think that helped out with applying. I was given the real project of planning and producing the Nike’s Kid’s day before the Tennis US Open. I created a plan of attack of how Nike's Kid's Day will look and executed upon it. I learned the ropes when it comes to planning a large marketing event with a world class brand – event planning, legal, risk management, brand team, etc.

I also learned to execute Nike's efforts around other aspects of the Tennis U.S. Open, helping with other projects my teammates were working on, and I went to all the Nike intern speaker talks.

Some travel, but I liked it.

The intern speaker series is cool.

Here is a quick story about the internship:

Sitting across from Nancy Monsarrat, the global brand director of women's training, I couldn't help but wish that I could absorb some of her creative genius by osmosis. Google informed me that in 2005 Sports Business Journal named Monsarrat the third most influential woman in sports business. She's kind of a big deal. And while I sat in her office, watching some of the earliest television spots that began to establish the now universal brand, I listened to her reminisce about the evolution of Nike and the projects she helped develop.

With every meeting on the schedule, I learned more about how integrated the company had become. While the nine campus buildings, in theory, function independently of one another, they are also intensely connected.

These is the type of people and places I got to see during my internship. Loved it.

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Amazing!

On the first day of work, the internship coordinators told the group of 175 interns that 16,000 people had applied to be right where we were and that they therefore held high expectations for us for the summer. The challenge was set before me, and would fuel my desire to succeed throughout my time there. Later, I found out my what my projects for the summer would entail. I learned that my role in the Global Engineering Manufacturing Department would not, in fact, fill the ever-present stereotype of temps and interns doing busywork and fetching coffee. I learned I had deadlines, and that my projects would be integrated into Nike through software programs, training and strategic initiatives once complete. I was proud of this enormous responsibility presented to me.

My first project was to improve upon an existing commercialization tracking tool by revising a list of failure codes available that shows the trial results of projects. The failure codes available were too numerous and imprecise, so I consolidated redundant and overlapping codes and created more specific codes to encompass failures that were previously not defined. I received excellent feedback from the liaison offices all over Asia and my list of codes will be used in the new commercialization tracking software.

My second project was to analyze a metric called “Finished Goods Capacity of Tooling,” or FGCT for short. Tooling, which is the mold that makes the outsoles of the shoes, is the biggest bottleneck the factories have in mass-producing shoes and is also extremely expensive. It was my job to research FGCT to identify contributing factors, data sources, stakeholders and systems involved. I did this mostly by interviewing employees both in Oregon and overseas. After that, I prepared recommendations for changes to the existing process to improve accuracy, transparency, and timeliness. I also created a diagram of inputs/outputs for the metric that established a systematic way of recognizing when to expect material changes.

Lastly, I worked with a Manufacturing Team Lead in Guangzhou, China to create a process for compiling defect rates and the number of pairs of shoes produced during production ramp-up of new models. I correlated these to the commercialization process as a way of assessing the success at rendering a design "production-ready." I highlighted the risk factors, and used that metric to analyze and report on global performance and the performance of the Nike liaison in China.

Hard work, but worth it. Not really a con.

Find a way in, it's worth it.