Sneaker and athletic apparel maker Nike – Get NIKE, Inc. Class B Report is building its metaverse team and hiring for key roles as the latest buzzword in the tech world stirs up talent wars.
Over the last week, Nike has posted five jobs to help the company embed new hires for the metaverse or related functions in what it described as its Technology Innovation Office. Link
The director of metaverse engineering will “lead the development of rapid end-to-end proof of concepts, prototypes, and production of metaverse software and device solutions…for use within Nike, as part of existing Nike products, and for new lines of business.”
The company is also looking to fill four other metaverse-related roles, including a senior 3D game designer/metaverse engineer with “expertise in Unreal Engine or Unity.” The candidate will also need experience in “full lifecycle game development” as well as a history of “working on technology innovation projects with high degrees of ambiguity”
Nike is also looking for an expert innovation program manager specializing in Blockchain, a metaverse principal innovation engineer as well as a virtual material designer as the company looks to break into the virtual space.