Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It’s a place where passionate individuals come together to create the future of sport. We are unapologetic about who we are and what we’re after—bringing innovation and inspiration to every athlete* in the world. We look for athletes who can push boundaries, elevate our potential and continue leading us to greatness. The next tastemakers, playmakers, risk takers and glue players. Are you game?

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will partner with globally distributed engineering, product, and program teams to ensure that the ecosystem of services remains loosely coupled, independently scalable, and aligned with business needs. You will work with your peers to develop key innovation features and report to the Engineering Manager for Marketing Technology.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist who will drive advanced analytics, predictive modeling, and machine learning solutions across Marketing Technology’s global digital and enterprise ecosystem. You bring deep technical expertise combined with business acumen, enabling you to translate complex data into actionable insights and high-impact models. You thrive in ambiguous environments, collaborate naturally with cross-functional partners, and elevate data maturity through innovation, quality, and thoughtful leadership.

Skillset Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.

  • 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, applied statistics, or advanced analytics.

  • Strong experience with customer, marketing, and digital analytics domains, including segmentation, personalization, propensity modeling, churn prediction, customer lifetime value (CLV/LTV), attribution, media measurement, and audience targeting.

  • Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and ML frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, XGBoost).

  • Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG architectures, AI agents, prompt engineering, and model evaluation frameworks, including responsible AI considerations.

  • Experience deploying ML models into production environments and working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Databricks ML, MLflow, Spark, Delta Lake, Snowpark, and Vector Databases.

  • Expertise in predictive modeling, optimization, experimentation, and advanced statistical methods.

  • Strong understanding of data engineering concepts, feature stores, and ML Ops principles.

  • Familiar with Databricks, Snowflake and other database foundational tools.

  • Experience with visualization tools and storytelling for technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Ability to work cross-functionally, influence stakeholders, and translate complex analysis into actionable strategies.

  • Strong communication skills, curiosity, ownership mindset, and commitment to quality.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

  • Build and evolve membership intelligence, audience targeting, personalization, and consumer decisioning capabilities across marketing channels.

  • Develop AI-powered marketing intelligence solutions, including audience recommendations, content optimization, and campaign effectiveness measurement.

  • Lead the design of LLM and Generative AI use cases within Martech, ensuring scalable, secure, and measurable business outcomes.

  • Drive adoption of AI-native data science practices and establish best practices for model governance, evaluation, and operational excellence.

  • Build a better practice around our marketing targeting intelligence and able to manage of targeting / data science models used from membership (lifecycle/churn/LTV/affinities) for advertising and comms.

  • Develop, deploy, and maintain machine learning models that accelerate decision-making across product, marketplace, consumer, and operational teams.

  • Partner with engineering, analytics, and product teams to build scalable data science pipelines and integrate models into production environments.

  • Conduct exploratory analysis, identify meaningful patterns, and translate findings into clear narratives and recommendations.

  • Ensure model quality through rigorous testing, validation, drift monitoring, and performance measurement.

  • Drive experimentation frameworks, A/B testing design, and causal inference models to inform product and business strategy.

  • Collaborate with Nike Technology partners to align with enterprise data, ML, and platform standards.

  • Mentor junior and mid-level data scientists and analysts, fostering excellence in modeling, coding, and problem-solving.

  • Evaluate new tools, frameworks, and techniques; lead proofs of concept and guide strategic adoption of data science capabilities.

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What You Can Expect

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.

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