How to Apply to Nike (2026): Step-by-Step

Nike hires at volume for retail store roles (Nike calls store staff Athletes), distribution center and manufacturing jobs, and corporate roles at its Beaverton headquarters and regional offices, plus internships and Jordan and Converse brand jobs. Search lives on careers.nike.com, but every Apply button opens Nike's Workday site, so the account, application and status all sit in Workday. What applicants do not expect: store applications include a 10-to-20-minute interactive assessment, a chat with quizzes plus a personality questionnaire, and Nike uses the score to decide who advances.

Where the Nike application lives

Official careers site: careers.nike.com. Applications run on Workday. Corporate, distribution and manufacturing roles use the nke site and retail roles use nke2, each with its own account.

• Retail store roles — Store Athlete and leadership roles; the application includes an online assessment and opens a retail-specific Workday site.
• Workday site for corporate, distribution and manufacturing — Where non-retail applications are submitted and tracked under Candidate Home.
• Workday site for retail — Store applications use this second site, so a corporate login may not carry over.
• Talent Community — An Avature signup for job alerts that is separate from Workday and does not count as an application.

Step by step: applying to Nike

1. Search careers.nike.com by category (Retail, Corporate, Distribution, Manufacturing), brand or location. Job IDs look like R-12345, which is the Workday requisition number.
2. Click Apply to move to nike.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com and create a Workday account with your email. Retail roles use the nke2 site and other roles the nke site, so you may end up with two logins.
3. Upload your resume or let Workday fill the form from it, check the parsed work history and education, answer the posting's questions and submit. Status appears under Candidate Home.
4. Retail applicants then complete the interactive assessment: a chat and quizzes plus a section where you choose between statements about how you work, about 10 to 20 minutes in total.
5. Corporate applicants who are selected hear from a recruiter, who runs the interview process and stays your main contact throughout.
6. Interviews focus on your background and how you approach service. Nike suggests researching the role beforehand and offers accommodations such as interpreters, captioning or a single interview location on request.

What a Workday application is like

• Every employer has its own Workday tenant, so you create a separate candidate account (email + password) for each company, even if you have applied through Workday elsewhere.
• "Autofill with Resume" parses your PDF or DOCX into the form. It regularly splits job titles, dates and bullet points wrong — check every field of My Experience before moving on.
• The form runs in stages (My Information, My Experience, Application Questions, Voluntary Disclosures, Self Identify, Review). Nothing saves until you finish a stage, and sessions time out.
• Once submitted, an application cannot be edited. Withdraw and re-apply if you must change something while the posting is open.
• Status lives in Candidate Home under My Applications. Later applications to the same company can reuse your saved details ("Use My Last Application").

Tips from Nike applicants

• US Retail Associate postings state a minimum age of 18 and the need to stand for long periods and climb ladders, and most list the starting hourly rate.
• Store postings carry the weekly hours band in the title, such as 14-29 hours a week or 0-40 for seasonal roles. Apply to the band that matches your real availability.
• Contract roles in the United States are listed through a separate link on the careers site and are not applied for through Workday.
• Accommodation requests for the retail assessment go to Nike.Support@aon.com, while requests for interviews go to Nike's accommodations line at +1 503-671-4156.

How long the Nike process takes

Nike does not publish response times. Retail candidates typically report an assessment invitation soon after applying and then a store interview; corporate candidates report a recruiter screen followed by several rounds spread over a few weeks to a couple of months.

Before you hit submit

Two quick wins: check your resume against the posting with the resume keywords for your role, and attach a tailored letter — see the cover letter examples by role. Decide your answers to the standard screening questions once — see desired salary and work authorization — and keep a record in a tracker.

Apply faster

Nike applications run on Workday, which JobRizzer autofills. Install the extension, open the Nike application, and JobRizzer fills the standard fields from your profile — you review every field and click submit yourself.