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 YOU’LL WORK WITH
Reporting to a Director of Nike Technology, this role will work closely with business functions, product managers, program managers, principal level engineers and oversee between 10 and 20 software engineers.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager with experience in leading front-end and back-end engineering teams.
This role will be responsible for Nike’s most important consumer facing digital experiences.
This role will serve as a key touch point between senior leadership and engineering teams, facilitating clear communication and alignment on daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly priorities and technical initiatives.
This role will manage multiple engineering teams, each with a different mission and focus area. This role may manage between 10 and 20 people. This role will drive business value and technical output through efficient management of the team, knocking down blockers, partnering with cross functional partners, creating roadmaps, ideating future team deliverables, demo’ing new features to varying audiences and conflict resolution. Most importantly, this role will be responsible for developing and growing each individual engineer.
The ideal candidate will have deep emotional intelligence, be driven toward consistent delivery of business value, a fearless communicator and relationship builder.
This is a technical position. The ideal candidate can quickly come up to speed on systems, architecture and organizations structures of people. The ideal candidate will have a background in software engineering, Devops and have proficiency in one or more software languages - JavaScript, Node, React, Java, AWS, Jenkins, GitHub, etc.
You bring:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
- 5+ years as an engineer, preferably a tech lead.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proven ability to traverse and comprehend complex organizations of people.
- Diagraming skills.
- Strong understanding of systems and microservice architecture and RESTful API design.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
This role will solve problems that directly impact Nike.com and other Nike digital surfaces such as the Nike iOS and Android commerce applications. This role will own and oversee daily and weekly ceremonies, regular check-ins with each engineer, and representation of technology needs/interests in technical and non-technical venues alike.
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.
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.
