Principal Program Management Advanced Product Ventures jobs at Nike in United States, Beaverton

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

In this role you will partner cross-functionally across the broader Men’s licensed basketball (grassroots, NCAA and NBA) Apparel Product creation team. The key partners you will work with include:

• Primarily licensed basketball product management
• Secondarily branded and signature basketball product management
• Global design
• Global apparel materials, technical development and product creation centers
• Global and geography merchandising
• Consumer insights
• Margin, finance, sourcing, costing and planning
• External partners across grassroots, NCAA and NBA

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Product Development, Sports Product Management, or a related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training
• 1+ years of experience in product, merchandising, or similar consumer-oriented role
• Creativity and passion for product, consumers, lifestyle fashion/trend, sport, color and style
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills
• Able to lead and influence a team and enable collaborative working relationships
• Ability to work independently and cooperatively in a diverse group
• Attention to detail and proven record of delivery against deadlines
• Necessary Skills/Tools: Excel, SmartSheets, Visual ToolCreation (Powerpoint/Keynote/Miro);MMX understanding is a bonus
• Domestic and international travel (limited Int’l) required (±5%)

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

• Support the product management team and product strategy as we work towards building industry leading apparel that inspires the next generation of basketball athletes
• Facilitate Product Line Management team deliverables and work closely with a variety of cross-functional partners to ensure excellence in data and product integrity and sample needs
• Own the creation and maintenance of foundational tools and processes, including brief tools, Visual Line Plans (VLPs) and Product Toolkits.
• Be seen as a leader for the business, expected to keep projects on task and communicate regularly to partners.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

We’re looking for a Senior Footwear Product Engineer. We seek a self-motivated, quick learner, a strong communicator, with great self-awareness and leadership skills. The idea candidate is a team player, has footwear product experience and can utilize tools and system to ensure product excellence from concept through manufacturing.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
• A minimum of 4 years directly relevant work experience
• Proficient in reading technical drawings, specs, design sketches and/or 3D digital files and link them together as a system approach to identify potential problems and/or challenges and provide complete problem solving/options and solutions
• Knowledge of lasts, footwear pattern engineering, tooling, material and manufacturing process highly preferred
• Ability to identify & drive valuable engineering solutions from the conceptual stage all the way to manufacturing
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Project management skills, working with various stakeholders with competing priorities
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, sketches and/or 3D digital files
• Digital literacy, including familiarity with Microsoft Office, Miro Board, spreadsheets, database management, and proficiency with 2D/3D CAD/CAM tools, and pattern engineering software, is a plus
• Value differences and be able to work across cultures while navigating NIKE’s organizational matrix
• Ability to travel up to 10-20% of the time

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

This role works on product creation, from brief through commercialization on performance products. You will provide early recommendations and technical expertise to cross-functional teams on product construction techniques, materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, sustainability, cost, and engineering solutions (processes, lab testing, MCS, MPS, etc.). You'll focus on product excellence that ultimately drives and supports product performance, quality, craftsmanship, and efficiency.

Other responsibilities may include:

• Reviewing samples and Tech Packs (Physical and Digital-Technical Drawings and 3D files) on each development gate from development through commercialization and manufacturing.
• Troubleshooting issues in development and production, as raised by wear testing, PI, etc.
• Establish, implement and document new standards
• Support costing initiatives throughout development
• Lead cross-category initiatives and leverage dimension, functional, and technical knowledge to influence the product and process of developing and manufacturing footwear.

The ideal candidate will possess a robust background in digital product management, engineering, and leadership, with a bias for action and a proven track record of driving product development excellence and innovation. You will collaborate closely with key leaders across the company to evolve the digital mindset, align on key experience and technology strategies, and deliver outstanding digital products that maximize business value and operational efficiencies.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Demonstrated excellence in fostering collaboration and driving results across diverse teams.

• Digital Product Management Expertise: Extensive experience in front-end and back-end capabilities, platforms, and service-oriented architecture.

• Matrix Organization Experience: Proven ability to lead large teams within a sophisticated, matrix organization, utilizing exceptional relationship-building skills and effective communication across all levels.

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Track record of leveraging data and insights to make informed product decisions and drive continuous improvement.

• Strategic Vision: Ability to drive product vision and strategy, aligning with overall business objectives and consumer needs.

• Educational Background: Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

• Professional Experience: 15+ years in the product and/or digital field.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a Senior Director of Digital Product, you'll run a world-class Product Management team. This pivotal role has leadership responsibility for key digital products within our Product Innovation, Merchandising, and Creation ecosystem and is aligned across high priority enterprise initiatives.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You will partner with executives across multiple functions to develop a cohesive product strategy and roadmap, ensuring business goals are met and exceeded. You will lead cross-functional teams focused on Product Innovation, Merchandising, and Creation priorities, grounded in a deep understanding of consumer needs, insights, and data analysis. Above all, you will be a relentless advocate for the needs of our partners serving Nike consumers.

• Strategy Development: Develop and implement strategies to grow and mature the digital product management discipline within ITC.

• Technical and Program Excellence: Influence and enhance technical and program excellence for all Product Development in ITC.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with and influence business stakeholders, executive leadership, and technology partners to deliver high-quality digital products.

• Culture of Innovation: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and customer-centricity within the digital product management team.

• Mentorship and Guidance : Provide mentorship and guidance to product managers, fostering their professional growth and development.

• Industry Trends : Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our digital products remain competitive and cutting-edge.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Developed and executed large, multi-faceted product deliveries, with a history of successful launches, across digital platforms globally.

• Drove the goals, strategic direction, and vision for advanced technology tools, digital experiences and capabilities, with a high competence for global expansion and scale.

• Demonstrated success in consumer relevant product introductions with proven growth.

• Experienced working and leading large teams inside a sophisticated, matrix organization, utilizing outstanding relationship building skills and effective communication across all levels.

• Drove innovation and iterative development process, including identifying launch approaches with pilots and testing strategies to perfect and scale product(s) successfully.

• Experience working across all digital platforms and preferably also digital capabilities including proven success leveraging AIML and Gen AI.

• Demonstrated ability to drive product vision and strategy, aligning with Nike's overall business objectives and consumer needs.

• Proven track record of leveraging data and insights to make informed product decisions and drive continuous improvement.

• Excellence in cross-functional leadership, fostering collaboration and driving results across diverse teams.

You are highly motivated and a self-starter with excellent communication and analytical skills. You have broad tax experience with exposure to various tax disciplines while also possessing good business acumen. You will have project management skills and the ability to prioritize multiple projects in this rapidly changing economic environment. As an effective communicator, you are a confident leader equipped with strong people skills with a genuine passion to make things happen.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

Reporting to the Global Tax Director – Tax Planning and Transfer Pricing, your primary responsibilities include:

• Perform research and analysis to lead federal, state, local, and international tax planning strategies.

• Collaborate with Geography Tax teams to drive local country tax optimization strategies, structures, and entity rationalization.

• Assist Treasury with evaluating funding mix and repatriation strategies.

• Assist with developing global transfer pricing strategies including supply chain structure, DEMPE, management/service charges, and IP/royalty analysis.

• Research and document federal, state, local and international tax law changes and rulings affecting business operations including Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) rules.

• Collaborate with Tax External Reporting to analyze US GAAP and local statutory income tax accounting aspects of tax planning strategies and tax controversy (FIN 48) analysis.

• Coordinate with Tax Compliance team to understand compliance requirements are met and positions have necessary support for compliance.

• Coordinate with the Tax Controversy team to develop audit defense strategies and assist with audit requests.

• Manage and coordinate with outside tax advisors (accounting and tax counsel) to drive tax planning, structuring, and compliance initiatives.

• Engage with external auditors as needed related to financial audit procedures.

WHAT YOU BRING TO NIKE

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Finance, Tax, Accounting or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or equivalent preferred.

• 8+ years of experience leading or supporting US Corporate Tax at a large multinational company or public accounting firm.

• Experience in US Taxation of International operations and transfer pricing.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, SAP and SharePoint systems.

• Excellent written and verbal communications, interpersonal skills, and ability to effectively communicate issues/risks and opportunities.

• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and managing multiple, competing priorities and requests, while maintaining high standards for quality and attention to detail.

• Proven track record in developing collaborative cross-functional relationships.

• Strong enthusiasm and passion for the NIKE brand!

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• 5+ years’ successful experience navigating a complex matrix and building key relationships to achieve business results preferred
• 5+ years' account/project management and internal/external relationship management experience, preferably in the Sports industry preffered
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including meeting facilitation and presentations.
• Proficiency in Keynote, Excel and MS Office applications.
• Ability to manage high profile communication and athlete relationships.
• Ability to juggle multiple time sensitive (both macro and micro) priorities and communicate bad news when necessary.
• True passion, understanding and interest in the Sport industry.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You will work closely with the Sports Marketing Sport Categories and Integration team to innovate around how we serve athletes consistently and holistically.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute 365 athlete service plans for Nike’s top tier Basketball, Football, and Baseball athletes to deliver against the athlete’s personal interests and priorities, as well as Nike’s holistic service offering, focused on performance, innovation, styling, product, and brand.
• Manage the Basketball, Football, and Baseball athlete service budget to deliver against the entire portfolio, implementing a tiered approach to service.
• Work closely with the NSRL (Nike Sports Research Lab) team to deliver elevated performance services aligned to the athlete’s training, competition, and recovery goals.
• Collaborate with the Styling Services team to develop and execute curated styling journeys for priority athletes to help them shine when the world is watching.
• Connect with Basketball, Football, and Baseball athletes during key sport moments, cultural moments, and Nike moments to deliver elevated services curated for them and for the specific moment.
• Work with Basketball, Football, and Baseball Sports Marketing Reps and functional stakeholders to deliver a premium experience during athlete WHQ visits.
• Manage athlete plan updates in AirTable and SMARTE to ensure a seamless flow of information to key business and leadership stakeholders.
• Work closely with Sports Marketing Athlete Integration counterparts to deliver broader athlete plans, inclusive of both service and Nike integration opportunities.

As a technical training FW Program Specialist II on the Bowerman Creation University team (BCU), you will be part of a highly motivated, technically focused learning and development team. We are responsible for foundational footwear education and advancing experiences that aid in accelerating the skills and knowledge of functional roles within the Footwear Product Creation organization. We build and deliver engaging learning experiences that fuel passion for creation and manufacturing expertise. Within our work, we strive to cultivate a dedication to innovation, team, and product excellence. In this role you will provide project coordination support to your programming and content creation teammates. You’ll be engaged in projects to elevate and improve our experiences and operational standard methodologies. In partnership with team leads you will support initiatives to improve accessibility, awareness, and delivery of our training content. You will also be involved in efforts to identify and use opportunities that will make direct and significant impact to elevate the technical footwear expertise within our organization.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Associate’s degree or 2-4 years orequivalent combination of education, experience and or training.

• Proficiency with MIRO and Air Table, whiteboarding and database tools.

• Adobe LMS and Articulate Rise360 experience is a plus.

• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite programs. (InDesign, Illustrator, Premier)

• Strong communication and presentation skills.

• Strong project management skills, ability to prioritize, and deliver outcomes.

• Ability to manage and adapt to changing priorities quickly.

• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.

• Demonstrated ability to research and resolve problems and initiative to identify and address needs.

• Dynamic self-starter and strong results orientation.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

In your day-to-day work you will collaborate with your teammates and technical subject matter experts to support creation and facilitation of new and existing training programs and plans based on technical priorities and needs. You will play a supporting role in launching new technical training courses and experiences created by the team, including instructor-led classroom, eLearning, virtual, and immersion training. The goal is to aid our Footwear learners in acquiring knowledge, skills, and proficiencies in an effective and engaging manner that best supports organizational and business objectives.

• Help prepare, deliver, and assess class learning experiences.

• Support instructional exercises and activities in classes and programs.

• Support developing criteria for evaluating effectiveness of training and developing plans for the required updates.

• Responsible for taking action to update and improve content and experiences with oversight from team leads.

• Help develop and maintain supplemental learning tools and resources as needed (checklists, one-pagers, user guides, etc.) for targeted audiences that aid in the understanding of technical subjects.

• Manage and maintain project plans, related documentation, and program playbooks.

• Create instructions, schedules and develop dashboards that highlight critical programming landmarks for the team and partners.

• Document meeting decisions and next steps. Share the recaps with teammates and SMEs.

• Track project progression through to completion with on-time and continuous communication with project sponsors, teammates, and stakeholders.

• Support continuous development and execution of operational best practices.

• Research, evaluate and make recommendations of digital tools and platforms that will enhance, elevate, and modernize our training content and delivery methods.

• Manage inventory and supplies for classroom and program training needs.

• Ensure a diversity and inclusion lens across all learning content and approaches.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

Energy Product Development team, you will work collaboratively with key functional partners throughout the Product Development process. This includes Footwear Engineering, Footwear Product Testing, Footwear Material Design and Material Development, Product Design, Product Management, Product Merchandising, Sourcing and Operations, and our overseas partners...etc. – both within Nike and external to Nike. You will report to the Footwear Product Development in the

You will need to navigate the Nike matrix to ensure that our processes model and match Nike Footwear Development standard methodologies for product excellence. You are the key point of contact for our overseas partners and ensure that communication during the product development process is clear and accurate.

that aligns fashion and performance

• Bachelor’s Degree in Product Development or Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Marketing, Industrial Design, or

  equivalent combination of education, experience and or training

• Minimum of 6 years of directly applicable work experience

• High-profile communication and influencing skills, including the ability to interact with leadership and cross-functional product creation team members

• Knowledge of footwear manufacturing technologies and equipment, tooling, and materials is highly preferred

• Understanding of product planning, forecasting, and process planning with solid communication skills

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

As our Lead Footwear Product Developer fordistribution channel. You'll drive product and process excellence within a team environment for your assigned projects. You will recommend and specify the material, component, and construction to meet key features and performance goals. As a Lead Product Developer, you will also apply your understanding of sophisticated innovation concepts to the in-line product process and offering. You will use your expert level of footwear technical knowledge to drive product creation teams through 3D Prototyping, Bottom Tooling, Upper Patterns, Mold Design, Chemicals, Materials, Costing, and Manufacturing to achieve project objectives in an efficient, effective, balanced, and timely way.

• Working on complex footwear projects, you will convert a project brief and a 2D design rendering into a 3D sample that meets the needs of the consumer as well as the needs of the business.

• You will utilize your knowledge and experience to enhance product excellence.

• You will engage in all phases of the product process to ensure projects are managed according to critical dates and completed on time while meeting design intent, performance goals, costing/profitability, and sustainability targets.

• You will ensure that your projects are ready for commercialization and can ultimately be manufactured.