Jobs at Nike in Japan, Saitama

We’re looking for a Lead Footwear Product Engineer for Running positioned in Korea to be an integral part of our Footwear Product Development Team and help drive product excellence for Running consumers. As a Lead Footwear Product Engineer, this person will provide project and process direction, within the project team, to create highly technical performance product. The ideal candidate needs to have demonstrated product engineering, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a product development environment. In addition, we are looking for people who are self-starters, quick learners, clear communicators, great teammates, and exhibit strong leadership skills. As a member of the development team, this person will effectively build relationships, lead, and interact with teams across Nike Footwear Product Creation.

• Minimum of 6+ years directly applicable Footwear Development or Engineering work experience across multiple footwear sports/styles.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• Have a solid understanding of the tools supporting and tactically driving the footwear product creation process.
• Experience being subject matter experts in footwear lasts, upper patterns, materials, chemistry, bottom tooling, injection and plates, costing, test methodologies, and manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of the creation process, including production planning, forecasting, and scheduling to deliver product quality in a timely, efficient, and effective way.
• Demonstrated critical experiences in Adopting and Driving Innovation through the INLINE Product Creation Process.
• Demonstrated experience in Driving Product or Engineering Initiatives and/or Strategy across the greater Footwear Dimensions and/or functions.
• Outstanding High-profile communication and influencing skills, with the ability to champion sophisticated projects both cross-functionally and vertically with the organization.
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally up to 15% of the time

We’re looking for you to apply your expert level knowledge and experience to improve product excellence:

• By identifying and addressing key issues and challenges in construction/manufacturing
• Engaging in all phases of the product process to ensure projects are led according to critical dates and completed on time
• Meeting design intent, performance goals, costing/profitability, sustainability targets, and product integrity requirements.
• Provide the team of Footwear Engineering technical training and consultation.
• Lead the Engineering Standard and Best Practices documents to proliferate to the global.

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.

• 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

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