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have experience in informing strategy, a strong business acumen, and an understanding of how to balance priorities in a dynamic environment. This role will build key partnerships, develop a strong point of view, and gain consensus across teams. If you are a self-starter with a strong track record of delivering results, we want to hear from you.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Communications, Information Technology or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- 7+ years experience as a Program Manager in a digital agency, consulting environment, or in an innovation or product development environment
- Understanding of Product, Product Creation process, and Robotics is highly preferred.
- Experience managing and facilitating collaboration among diverse skill sets, including designers, technologists, researchers and marketers
- Ability to learn and consolidate highly complex concepts, processes and ideas, and synthesize them into materials to help communicate these ideas in a digestible and simplified manner.
- Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
- Strong program/portfolio management capabilities to lead multiple project streams and complexity; propensity for thinking through projects in a process-oriented way
- Strong attention to detail, proven track record to organize, prioritize and deliver outcomes
- Excellent verbal, written communication, and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical audiences
- Outstanding influencing skills with experience engaging diverse set of cross-functional partners
- Highly flexible, able to quickly adapt to changing priorities
- Nike, Inc. knowledge and established credibility within the business is a plus
As a
Program Manager, youwill be required to utilize core project management, communication, presentation, and creative problem-solving skills to drive and deliver programs and strategic initiatives of the highest level of quality.Success is defined not only as on time and on budget but partnering with teams to drive both operational and strategic decisions to meet business requirements in a way that demonstrates creativity, a high-level of quality and, most importantly, resultingdelivering great products. You will leverage your expertise to drive program excellence, while fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, and accountability across the organization.
Fundamental elements of this work include:
- Execute and manage pilots to help prove plausibility of technology innovation, including managing scope, requirements, and success metrics.
- Work with cross functional teams across the business, and manage multiple projects across multiple timelines or seasons, and multiple platforms.
- Create compelling communication materials that effectively articulate progress and opportunities to stakeholders at all levels, driving alignment and action across the organization
- Identify issues and mitigate quickly, with a strong sense of diplomacy to ensure alignment to common goals, provide actionable insights and recommendations to leadership and teams, and enable data-driven decisions
- Create systems and organization out of a chaotic process
- Ability to be flexible under pressure
- Able to