Nike Lead Digital Process Manager Innovation Multiple Openings 

United States, Oregon, Beaverton 

239904875

The AIC Advanced Digital CreationStudio team providesa competitive advantage by leveraging the power of modern technologies, methodologies, skills, and services to fuel advanced athlete insights, product innovation, and craft. We seek to identify and accelerate new digital approaches to generating athlete insights, designing innovative products, and leveraging advanced manufacturing methods to create compelling consumer product and services.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will collaborate with digital solutions experts in user experience, software development, advanced design and 3D modeling, data and machine learning, and integrated workflows/pipeline to conceptualize, prototype, and validate high value digital solutions. You will partner with members of the user communities in athlete research, design, materials, engineering and manufacturing to understand their needs / jobs to be done and explore new digitally connected workflows that address the needs

The ideal candidate has a comfort working flexibly through ambiguity. They have a strategic mindset and deep expertise in understanding users, workflow design, data management and in developing digital solutions. They have demonstrated experience and a solid understanding of modern product creation and/or athlete research They have demonstrated an ability to apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills in a collaborative setting.

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

• A minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience

• Professional experience in digital product management, data management or business analysis

• Proven track record of managing prototyping or other early-stage digital solution development

• Strong foundation in data and data-driven processes and an understanding of data modeling, governance, and metadata

• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and storytelling skills.

• Experience with product design or product creation is desirable

• Experience with athlete research is desirable

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

As a business Lead Process Manager, you will embed with other business users in product innovation and athlete research to understand and document their processes and co-create new digital processes that help to alleviate pain points and modernize the way that they work. You’ll partner with user-centered design and software development teams to rapidly prototype data-driven digital workflows and drive towards process and technology change. You’ll play a key role in driving alignment among diverse stakeholders and defining project scope, requirements and success metrics. You’ll use advanced communication and storytelling skills to drive clarity and understanding of the work.

• Leads the implementation proof of concepts & pilots to prove plausibility of technology innovation and demonstrate the business value, including defining project scope, requirements and success metrics.

• Manages day-to-day relationships with stakeholders, technical teams and external development partners

• Understands how stakeholders work and educates and trains on new tools and processes.

• Collaborates with partners and sponsors to drive towards process and technology change, utilizing a user-centric research process.

• Advocate the importance of data management and governance processes and encourage their adoption across various business units.