As a member of Nike’s Digital Innovation team, you will be a part of shaping the future of how Nike connects and personally serves every athlete. Our team’s mission is to define and deliver revolutionary digital products and service platforms designed to motivate and help make every athlete better. As a Program Director for the team you will be responsible for driving the cross functional integration of the design, development, delivery and transition of our digital product roadmap.
This role requires a combination of leadership, organization, project management fundamentals, as well as softer influencing capabilities. The ideal candidate for this role will come from a program management, digital product, or operations background. This is a leadership position within the innovation team requiring the ability to influence teams across Product, Brand, Retail, and Operations to land on-time and on-budget deliverables with flawless quality. The successful candidate should also have deep experience across hardware and software integration in the consumer electronics or like industries.
Key Responsibilities: • Work with the Digital Innovation team to drive the integrated delivery of our product portfolio. • Lead the program management function, including: development the schedule, budget, team construct, communication management, and business impact analysis for each product. • Ensure alignment and seamless transition of products to the Go to Market teams across Nike.
• Bachelor's degree; MBA or advanced degree is preferred • Minimum 10-years total experience in product development, program management, management consulting, strategy, or related fields • Demonstrated, deep experience in cross-disciplinary program management • Experience managing complex software and hardware delivery efforts • Strong project management fundamentals, including ability to accurately scope efforts, build work-back schedules, and apply both sequential and sprint-based development principles • A passion for building, creating, and working in creative environments • Outstanding communication and team-management skills, with demonstrated ability to problem solve as part of a team • Experience bridging internal and external teams to deliver as a whole, invested partnership • Demonstrated ability to interact directly with all stakeholder teams to solicit and distill product and development requirements • Experience managing risk and accountability against a timeline on efforts containing a significant portion of novel development • Prior experience in innovation, consumer electronics, gaming, social, digital product, mobile or platform product management a strong plus
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