Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking a highly motivated Product Manager to lead the strategy, development, and execution of data-driven products at Nike. The ideal candidate will possess a strong product management skills with understanding of data product lifecycle. These skills are crucial for developing scalable and high-impact data solutions that enhance Nike's business and support data-driven decision-making for stakeholders.
You will serve as a Product advocate, effectively describing the Product, its value, operation, adoption process, and upcoming changes, while tailoring information to different audiences.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
Define, own and maintain the vision, roadmap, and strategy for one of critical data products in the retail supply chain domain.
Own, maintain and prioritize the product roadmap - break Features into stories, ensure capacity for enablers and defects.
Oversee and manage lifecycle of data products, including data ingestion, cross-domain integrations, transformations, and consumption layers.
Analyze costs and benefits of new systems or system integrations
Ensure data quality, security, and compliance within all product deliverables.
Act as the liaison between business stakeholders, engineering teams, data analysts, and supply chain SMEs.
Accountable for defining the sprint and quarterly goals clearly, ensuring work is accepted and delivered following the guidelines and milestones set forth in the Product Roadmap.
Facilitate agile ceremonies, prioritize backlogs in alignment with sprint goals, multi-year objectives, quarterly goals, and roadmaps.
Communicate product progress, risks, and KPIs to Senior Management and stakeholders.
Advocate the importance of data products and encourage their adoption across various business units.
Identify, escalate, and remove roadblocks, triage defects, and seek clarity from consumers on issues where appropriate.
Work with the Team to translate any internal "Enablers" into value driven stories.
Facilitate process mapping, feature mapping with Personas, gap analysis, and data flow to assess the business implications of features, tools, or platforms.
Prioritize and make trade-offs based on an understanding of strategies, budget, epics, enabler requirements, and goals to maximize business value.
Key Competencies
Product strategy, roadmap and requirement planning: Work with Global and Geo based end users and Product Leaders to set product north star, providing input for Data Products specific requirements. Ability to take desired business outcomes and customer/user research data, converting them into functional and non-functional requirements
Cross-functional expertise: Ability to interact and influence stakeholders across functions and levels
E2E Product Management: ability to oversee E2E product lifecycles for a product, from strategy (innovate, generate ideas, justify investments) to launch (execution, integration, sequencing), operating in-life (track performance, fix issues), managing end-of-life and measurement including integration, sequencing, and stitching across all levels.
Technology solutioning: ability to oversee technical solutioning in partnership with engineering
Functional depth: Understanding with enterprise domains like retail supply chain, marketplace or merchandising
WHAT YOU BRING
We're looking for someone who has a proven track record of being able to navigate through complex product landscape and having delivered successful data products. To that effect, we are looking for someone with these skills:
Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or another relevant business/technology field. Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology is preferred, but not a must.
8+ years of professional experience in product management, with hands on proficiency with data analytics, or data engineering.
Proven track record of managing enterprise-scale data products or platforms
Strong understanding of data architecture, data modeling, governance, and metadata
Experience with tools such as Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau/Power BI, or similar
Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and storytelling skills.
Experience working in Agile or Scaled Agile environments
OUR HIRING GAME PLAN
01 Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
03 Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
