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.

The first spark of a product idea sets the NIKE, Inc. Footwear Product Creation team into motion. The team of footwear developers, testers, engineers and designers strive for product excellence. In Product Development we obsess over shoes, while collaborating, ideating and refining the product’s craft, fit, comfort, performance, quality and value. They use groundbreaking advancements in technology and sustainability to accelerate innovation and product excellence. And they work lockstep with Merchandising, Design, Manufacturing and others to produce the final result: products that reflect the soul of sport and inspire athletes to reach new levels of performance.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

This critical role serves the Consumer x Field of Play Product Development Teams and helps drive our product excellence vision, strategy, and execution, as well as serving as our key leader for the WHQ product development team.

This candidate needs to have the ability to influence, motivate, energize, and inspire a global organization that includes team members in the USA, Europe, and Asia. This person also needs to have a track record of working successfully with multiple teams, across cultures, languages, and distances with outstanding results. Additionally, they should have the demonstrated ability to work across functional teams with clarity, an enterprise approach, and an eye for growth and serving the athlete (or consumer) at an industry-leading level.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

In this role you will serve as part of the Field of Play leadership team managing the Kids Footwear Development teams responsible for leading new creation and refresh product in our Kids category. You will drive the product creation process from initial concept through to commercialization and production for assigned Field of Play to lead to on time delivery and development according to critical dates, product specification, sustainability, performance, and profitability goals.

The successful candidate will collaborate with cross functional Product Creation leaders and work side-by-side with the field of play leadership team to ensure that all our different disciplines are working seamlessly to drive product excellence. You’ll apply workload management tools and metrics from our Operations teammates to help make data-informed decisions. You’ll also provide objective measurements of success and dashboards to move the offense forward and offer recommendations on how to proceed in service to our teammates, consumers, and athlete.  You will Translates organization objectives into a clear team strategy. Set and meet goals that can have far reaching impact to the Athlete*

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

In this role, you’ll report to the Senior Director of Kids Product Development, based at Nike’s World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. As a part of Nike’s Field of Play Leadership team, you will work with our leaders across Engineering, Materials Development, Product Testing, Product Management, Design and more to ensure our aligned offense for team and product excellence is optimized and productive!

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree required in the relevant or a related field, or any acceptable combination of education and experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in the relevant or a related field
• Minimum 10+ years of operational, strategy, or development experience
• Critical thinking & analytical skills
• Proven examples of results-orientation, problem solving, and cross functional collaboration
• Experienced, high-profile communication skills, and the ability to influence throughout all levels of the Nike enterprise.
• Leadership in the development of a team of experienced individual contributors. Responsible for talent management and may provide input into succession planning and segmentation activities. Responsible for performance management, pay, and resourcing decisions for direct and indirect reports.
• Must haves: years of experience, education, professional/functional credentials and certifications (for leveling), physical requirements (e.g., “ability to lift…”), and any country-specific items required by local laws (check with y