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?
Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
NIKE, Inc. is a place to explore potential, push boundaries, and create the future of sport. We are looking for leaders who combine strong engineering expertise with a passion for developing people and building high-performing teams.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Product Engineering to join our Taiwan PMO Prodcut Engineer team and lead both product excellence and team capability development across the footwear product creation process and organization.
In this role, you will act as a key connector across Product Creation, Innovations, Manufacturing Engineering, and Factory partners, while also serving as a people leader who scales engineering capability across the team and partner network.
You will also bring deep engineer experience and knowledge to guide complex product decisions, while driving team performance, collaboration, and long-term capability building.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
People & Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Engineers, building a strong pipeline of technical and leadership talent, establish culture of belonging, inclusive of diversity, strengthen the ownership, set up collaboration mindset, and continuous improvement. Mentor engineers and elevate team capability in areas such as pattern engineering, tooling, manufacturing, and product creation, drive knowledge sharing, standard work, and best practice adoption across PMO and PCC partners, foster an inclusive environment that encourages diverse perspectives and strong team engagement.
Product Engineering Excellence & Technical Leadership : Drive product engineering execution from concept through commercialization and manufacturing readiness, leverage deep technical expertise to solve complex engineering challenges and guide critical decisions, review and validate product designs, samples, and technical data, establish and implement engineering best practices to ensure product quality, performance, and manufacturability, apply structured and creative problem-solving to deliver optimal solutions for performance, cost, and scalability.
Cross-functional Leadership & Execution : Drive alignment across Product Creation, Materials, Innovation, Manufacturing, and Factory partners to ensure execution excellence, act as a bridge between Nike teams and factory partners, ensuring clear communication and decision-making across the product lifecycle, ensure products are manufacturing-ready at key milestones, balancing performance, quality, cost, and timeline requirements, lead issue resolution through root cause analysis and drive effective countermeasures.
Strategic & Capability Leadership: Translate category and engineering strategies into actionable plans for team execution, influence adoption of innovation, new processes, and manufacturing technologies, build scalable systems, processes, and standards that improve long-term team effectiveness, strengthen alignment across global and regional stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
PMO Product Engineering, Development, and Manufacturing teams
Global and regional Sport & Engineering team
Factory partners and external suppliers
Cross-functional teams (Innovation, Materials, Costing, Product Testing, Chemical, Tooling, Supply Chain)
You will operate in a highly matrixed, global environment, requiring strong influencing, alignment, and partnership capabilities with strong people and team-oriented mindset, want to lead and growth together with the team.
WHAT YOU BRING
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field (advanced degree preferred)
8+ years of relevant experience in footwear engineering, development, or manufacturing
Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing teams
Deep technical expertise in footwear engineering, tooling, materials, or manufacturing processes
Strong ability to influence and align stakeholders in a matrixed organization
Demonstrated problem-solving capability in complex product and manufacturing scenarios
Strong communication and storytelling skills to translate technical insights into clear direction
Ability to work across cultures and navigate global partnerships
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.
