Lead Technical Product Manager - EADP - Service Platform - PCSHybrid

Title: Lead Technical Product Manager - EADP - Service Platform - PCS

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 14-month contract

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.

NIKE is a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate, and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary, and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

As Nike accelerates and operationalizes its One Technology Roadmap; it has become apparent there is a need for a team and structure that will be responsible for building high-quality enterprise products and platforms at scale. Technology Product Management will play an integral part of the Global Technology team as we move into a technology-led strategy for Nike, with the Domain Technology Product Manager (TPM) being an important component of that team. This function understands how to bring the best of Global Tech together, with an ability to leverage platform capabilities.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We are hiring a Lead TPM, supporting the Enterprise Architecture & Developer Platforms (EADP) domain. EADP delivers on foundational platforms that enable our customers and the business to have the Agility, Fast Time-to Market, and Cost Efficiency's they need to be successful through an ecosystem of composable platforms.

We are seeking a Technical Product Manager for one the following Foundational Technology Platforms: Service Platform. Service Platform is at the core of a set of foundation platforms that aim at accelerating the delivery of software across GT. We take a strong point of view, partnering with Engineering peers to build what the next generation experience should look like, allowing developers to push code to cloud on Day-1.

For this, we are starting the Platform Engineering movement at Nike between TechOps and EADP domain. Come and join our Product team if you want to flex your Product mindset muscle, define a strong vision for the Application Developer Platform, and work with Engineers eager to disrupt the status quo.

You will partner with our early adopters, Platform Engineering teams leveraging Service Platform products, gain valuable feedback, translate feedback into tangible requirements, and document & measure your own journey.

As a Lead Technical Product Manager, you will

• Build the product strategy, and creation of an end-to-end product/platform vision and multi-year roadmap for a function in partnership with Engineering teams and the business.
• Partner with all collaborators to understand Business needs, outcomes and value to ensure roadmaps are aligned to those needs.
• Ensuring Product roadmaps account for and integrate dependencies across functional areas within Domains.
• Deliver outsized value to Global Tech quickly and are built to be scalable and agile.
• Bringing outstanding market and industry insights to platform and product strategy.
• Track value delivered, product adoption, performance, and execution, adjusting plans where needed.
• Ensure TPM maturity throughout all levels of the Tech Team (e.g., role development, career pathing)

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH

You will collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g., other TPM's, Business leads, Domain leads, UX Designers, Engineering), facilitating decision-making across priorities with Portfolio Management. You will work with our Digital Product Creation partners and teams across Line Planning and Merchandising, Design, and Manufacturing to understand the needs and aspirations of our consumers.

WHAT YOU BRING

Core Skills - You should have relevant Product Management experience, including having gone through many software development lifecycles, partnering with Engineering to deliver Cloud product(s) and service(s) from 0-1 with a strong product driven mindset.

• Experience (5 years+) in driving complex & scalable software products to market
• Strong analytical and data visualization Skills
• Clear communication skills with key internal partners and stakeholders
• Validated ability to adapt to new technologies and tools, and processes
• Understanding of Design Thinking Concepts and Design Leadership
• Use of Value-Driven Frameworks to influence and build strong Product roadmaps
• Strong domain technical background to accelerate product positioning, and partnerships with both internal engineering teams and customers

Domain Skills - Product Manager with prior software development and/or DevOps experience is a must to be successful in this position.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, Crossplane)
• Platform Engineering concepts and models Strong working knowledge of public Cloud Provider services
• Managed Service / Platform as a Service (or PaaS) delivery model
• Strong knowledge with Cloud-native technology stack(s) & open-source software & solutions