Web Product Management Director jobs in Portland, OR

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, Inc. 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.

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.

Digital Product Creation (DPC) facilitates the digital transformation of Nike’s Consumer Creation teams. We use the power of digital capabilities and data, technology, and talent to fuel a consumer led, digitally native product and creation ecosystem. One that amplifies creativity, drives seamless creation and unleashes obsessed consumers. We accelerate and empower a digital future from Planning to Design to Creation to Consumer. To do this, we partner closely with Footwear and Apparel teams as well as numerous members of the end-to-end Nike value chain. As part of the Consumer Creation Operations team, DPC also works closely with Nike’s Footwear, Apparel, and Design Operations teams. 

At Nike, you get in by being the best player, you stay in by being the best teammate. We are in it to win it together, even if we stumble along the way. Making history is no easy task, but as a team, we are unstoppable!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The DPC Product: Development team is looking for a Director of Product Management to lead our Product Development team and our mission to deliver a seamless and intuitive product creation ecosystem that meets user and business needs while delivering tangible value. This Director provides leadership, guidance and support to a team of Product Management professionals in addition to demonstrating and coaching standard methodologies, behaviors, and principles of effective digital product management.

We are looking for a highly analytical, creative, consumer and user-obsessed individual who can simultaneously understand the big picture and have a strong command of the details of sophisticated scope and landscape. 

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of people-first leadership, delivering results, and bringing large cross-functional products and platforms to life. 

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will help craft and implement the Product Development and Digital Creation product vision and strategy, the roadmap and end-to-end lifecycle of several product areas, and help identify and scope opportunities to drive creation speed, efficiency, usability, and value. This will be based on a solid understanding of technology and platforms as well as product creation user and business needs, enabling Nike creation teams to focus more on products than process while enabling the organization to more efficiently operate and scale. You will lead a product space along with other leaders and product spaces in DPC including; Planning and Merchandising, Design, Materials and Color, as well as other functions such as Design and Production, Data Management and Governance.

In this role you will:

• Own and drive the user-facing product roadmap aligned with team and group vision and underlying business case and return on investment or value proposition
• Mentor and develop the competencies and skills of team members and our Product Management discipline and develop future leaders and Product Managers
• Develop and nurture successful relationships with users, business leaders, Technology partners, and others
• Ensure that teams are appropriately organized, resourced, motivated, engaged, and prepared to advance the goals of their organizations
• Ensure product strategies align with other products and with Nike’s goals and objectives
• Assess, supervise, and report on product performance through KPIs as well as Key Results and Outcomes across various stages of product lifecycle
• Remove obstacles, and help the team navigate the organization to optimize success
• Promote cross-team and cross-organizational knowledge sharing through multiple forums (e.g. user groups, demos, design reviews, practicums).
• Make prioritization and trade-off decisions, balancing the consumer experience, launch complexity and timeline, development effort across multiple product teams, and business value
• Help drive alignment across product backlogs and roadmaps to ensure alignment across portfolio as well as with company strategic goals and enterprise value propositions
• Demonstrate knowledge of qualitative research and emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

This role is inherently cross-functional by design; you will work closely with users and business leaders (both local and global), other DPC product teams, Technology and Engineering, Experience Designers, Program and Portfolio Management, Consumer Creation Operations, Finance, Legal, to bring our experiences to market.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Positive energy and a passion for building outstanding products that users love
• Strong team leadership, great teammate, and radical candor and collaboration behaviors
• Data driven, attention to detail, and analytics-based decision making and success monitoring
• Bias to action and progress over perfection mentality
• Respect if not expertise in design thinking, test and learn, and iteration operating model

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 10 years' experience in digital product management roles
• 5 years' experience building and managing teams
• 5 years leading multi-functional teams involving product management, project, program or portfolio management, transition management, design, engineering, etc.
• Demonstrated experience delivering results in complex product and program environments
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up actions
• Experience developing and/or deploying digital product solutions to a global user community
• MBA or Master’s Degree preferred

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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.