Consumer Product and Innovation (CP&I) enables the digital transformation of Nike’s Creation and Innovation teams through technology. In close partnership with the Consumer, Product, Brand, Marketplace Ops (CPBMO) team, we use the power of digital capabilities (data, technology, processes, and talent) to fuel a consumer-led, digitally native product and creation ecosystem. One that amplifies creativity, drives seamless creation, and unleashes obsessed consumers.

We accelerate and empower a digital future from Planning to Design to Creation to Consumer. To do this, we partner closely with Innovation, Footwear, and Apparel teams, as well as Planning and Supply teams, and numerous other members of the end-to-end Nike value chain. We invest in cutting-edge technologies and work with the most creative people in the world. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The CP&I Product Management team is looking for a Lead Product Manager who is data driven, curious, obsesses consumers, and demonstrates the ability to seamlessly move between forward thinking and tactical implementation.

The ideal candidate is a life-long learner, excellent at navigating the unknowns and working with multiple stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization to get the right things done. They understand the “why” of each decision and how to deliver value in support of organizational goals. They care deeply about the user journey and do not accept friction.

They are equally adept at setting a long term strategic vision as they are at getting in the weeds, and have a proven track record of successful delivery of significant business outcomes, holding themselves accountable for their commitments.

They possess an advanced ability to analyze and synthesize both qualitative and quantitative insights to guide the direction of Product and features.

They can speak eloquently and concisely to the data, highlighting key insights to the right audience at the right level of detail.

They are an excellent communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences, actively campaigning for knowledge management, ensuring that cross-team learnings are cultivated, advocated, and nurtured. Their mission and vision align with Nike’s to “Make athlete* dreams real”.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

This role will specifically focus on our Color users and their ecosystem. As a Lead Product Manager, you will play a critical role in driving the strategic direction and execution of our product roadmap supporting our product creation teams. You will be responsible for the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and beyond, ensuring that our products achieve business objectives and deliver a superior user experience.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

• Drive the product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities for CP&I products. This may include product management for a new product entirely, or new feature adoption, feature enhancements, integrations with our internal tools, working closely with Experience Design and Engineering.

• Develop business cases by assessing the available insights and data to produce expected outcome models. Use this analysis to inform and recommend priorities.

• Work with business partners and understand critical needs, establish priorities, and ensure that we are meeting or exceeding those goals.

• Work closely with your users to understand their needs, and put those needs in the center of the product vision and delivery.

• Make prioritization and trade-off decisions, balancing the consumer experience, launch complexity, timeline, development effort, and business value.

• Investigate issues, do root-cause analysis, identify systemic gaps, and ensure these gaps are addressed.

• Establish and manage accurate tracking of critical metrics and translate feedback into enhancement recommendations.

• You will define and communicate performance metrics up and down the organization in substantial ways and the right level of detail.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of demonstrated ability in product management, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Positive energy, curiosity, and a passion for building outstanding products that users love.

• Innovative problem solver with a strong consumer and quality focus.

• High attention to detail with the ability to analyze data to inform decisions, build expected outcomes, document requirements, and monitor success through analytics-based decision making.

• Bias to action and progress over perfection mentality.

• Expertise in design thinking, test and learn, and iteration-based operating model.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with an interest in building trust and creating collaborative partnerships cross-functionally.

• Experience with working in an Agile delivery environment

• Ability to troubleshoot technical and non-technical problems

• Strong technical savvy, and understanding/curiosity about emerging innovative technologies.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous learning is core to our identity.

• Willingness to roll up your sleeves to win as a team.

• Experience working on global products is beneficial.

• Understanding of Color in a product creation ecosystem is a plus.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

This role is inherently cross-functional by design; You will work closely with users and business leaders (both local and global), other product teams, other domains, Engineering, Architecture, Experience Designer, Program and Portfolio Management, Operations, Finance, Legal, to bring experiences to market.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.