Job Description

Lead Technical Product Manager - Partners and Marketplace

- 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, it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR :

- The Lead Technical Product Manager will own specific product/products in Nike's B2B ecommerce business launching innovative products to Athletes, wholesale vendors, partners, and sports teams.

- This role will collaborate with diverse cross-function team members to execute complex and strategic product initiatives.

- We are looking for a strong technical product manager who has experience building innovative products in the B2B ecommerce space and can oversee end-to-end execution of product roadmap across multiple parallel workstreams in collaboration with engineering, business, program and operations teams.

- Some of the products include Nike Partners (Nike's B2B Ecommerce), Nike Team Sports (for team sports needs and custom orders), Sports Marketing (for athletes and their communities), Brand protection, Customer data management platforms and many more built on latest technologies.

Technical Product Management

- Lead technical product strategy by collaborating with business, engineering and cross-functional teams

- Seasoned in technical product management with strong technical skills, product skills, and expertise with digital and technology transformation in an agile structure.

- Demonstrated experience in Technical Product Management activities including defining the vision for the technical product, creating multi year product roadmap, managing and prioritizing the backlog, overseeing the stages of design and development, developing user stories, liaising with the business, engineering and operations teams for providing seamless end-end experience to Nike's B2B customers.

- Can fully understand the market, value proposition and apply technical skills to digitally transform B2B eCommerce business.

- Works closely with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, data governance information management, and engineering and continuously evaluate and course correct based on market requirements.

- Derive key KPIs by working with business and engineering teams and create a reporting framework to monitor product adoption and ROI.

- Strong experience in microservices based architecture. Participate and drive the solution design, API and data contract reviews by collaborating with global application engineering teams, user experience engineering, principal engineers and solution architects.

- Apply best practices in product design and development to move based on market needs and pivot as necessary

- Can think through end to end product rollout strategy and execute smooth rollout to live production systems

Program Management

- Experience in Agile methodology

- Expert in collaborating with cross functional team in managing product roadmap

- Manage escalations by providing options and influencing right decision for Nike

Communication and Collaboration

- This role requires a candidate who is strong at building relationships across functions to align strategies and drive execution. This person will be a strategic problem solver with an ability to prioritize multiple and competing priorities while driving a plan to execution

- Expert in communication by being clear and concise in providing data and facts to executive audience and influence right decisions

- Bring a sense of urgency and motivate the cross functional team to deliver quality product ontime.

Team Management

- Able to manage a team of Technical Product Managers who will be focusing on specific verticals within an initiative

- Able to allocate work efficiently and set expectations and motivate the team

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON :

- You will own a product roadmap for one or more verticals within Nike's Partner and Marketplace business

- Collaborate with business teams in identifying key market opportunities, developing key KPIs and metrics for the products owned.

- You will derive a technical product strategy, develop a technology product roadmap and oversee execution of key initiatives through cross-functional collaboration

- Identify market needs and prioritize the initiatives working with cross functional teams

- Identify the right technology solutions and lead buy vs build decisions

- Own the technical product roadmap and deliver milestones by working closely with business, engineering and operations teams.

- Hire diverse technical product management team and exhibit strong people management skills in developing and nurturing the team.

- Develop standards, processes to build and maintain a productive team

- Take ownership, roll up the sleeves and dive deep when needed to bring clarity when needed

- Provide detailed product specifications and well versed in explaining business and technical aspects.

- Have an eye to performance and scalability of the systems.

- Good team management skills and be accountable for work delivered as a team

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH :

- You will partner with senior level internal partners to cultivate collaboration, strategic alignment and integrated planning and execution across functions.

- You will have close partnership with the Portfolio, Business, Finance, Strategy and Global Technology domains. You will work closely to coordinate with other Technology teams on technical dependencies.

- You will use your influence to work with cross functional teams and get things done based on Nike's overall objectives.

- You will work with designers and provide inputs to develop seamless customer experiences.

WHAT YOU BRING :

- Applicant must have a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering and 5-7 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

- MBA or other management certifications preferred

- Experience in software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance.

- Experience in B2B eCommerce systems.

- Cloud-based platform experience preferred.

- Data flow diagrams, such as, technical and functional specifications

- Ability to articulate high level and low-level system specifications.

- Expert in Software Application programming Interfaces (APIs).

- Some people management experience managing globally distributed teams in product development or engineering.

- Agile and Scrum product development.

- Product management including managing the backlogs to ensure product delivery.

- Performing technical architecture and solution design reviews.

- Relevant experience in Retail & Consumer goods, B2B application preferred.

- Strong relationship-building skills and experience working closely with senior executives and cross-functional partners to deliver key strategic initiatives.

- Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to challenge the status quo.

- Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic, results-oriented matrixed environment.

- Delivery experience using Agile methodologies.

- Deep experience with tools such as Aha! JIRA, Confluence etc.

- Strong team leadership skills to efficiently distribute work, bring accountability and motivate team to deliver on time

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete- in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.