Senior Manager, Product Line Management, NA Local Creation Apparel

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH 

In this role, you will report to the Senior Director of Product, North America Local Creation Apparel. You will lead and develop a Product Line Management team setting clear expectations, expand capabilities, and drive strong execution and accountability across the team. This is a player/coach role, balancing direct ownership of product work with people leadership, mentorship, and team development. 

You will also be a core member of the extended Express Lane leadership team, working alongside Product, Design, and Development leaders to represent the voice of the team, shape operating models, and drive alignment, accountability, and continuous improvement across the NA Local Creation Apparel business. 

You will work within a dedicated Apparel triad, partnering closely with Design and Development, along with key supporting functions across the end-to-end product creation process. You will collaborate extensively with Global Product Creation teams, Merchandising, and Brand partners to align local consumer needs with global strategies, while delivering speed, clarity, and compelling product at scale for North America. 

As the senior product leader within the triad, you will set the standard for operational excellence, continuously evolving tools, processes, and ways of working to improve how the team delivers. You will ensure product briefs are grounded in deep consumer truths, clearly articulated, and tightly aligned to seasonal priorities and broader strategic objectives—enabling teams to move faster with greater confidence and focus. 

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR 

This role is grounded in the North America apparel consumer and accountable for leading the product creation process while managing and developing a team of Product Line Managers. 

The ideal candidate is highly organized and strategic, with a proven ability to translate business priorities into clear, efficient ways of working. You are passionate about building and refining tools, processes, and frameworks that bring clarity, consistency, and speed to fastmoving teams, and you are energized by creating strategic infrastructure in environments that are growing and evolving. 

You bring a strong product point of view and remain hands on where it matters, while also leading, mentoring, and developing others. You set a high bar for operational excellence, ensuring briefs are focused, consumer led, and tightly aligned to seasonal priorities and broader strategic objectives. You are a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, brings structure to complexity, and adapts quickly in a fast paced environment. 

You bring deep expertise in the apparel product creation process, a strong understanding of consumer and marketplace dynamics, and the ability to communicate with confidence and credibility. You represent Nike effectively in internal and external forums and are skilled at balancing the demands of driving both market share and mind share. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Retail Merchandising, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training. 

• 8+ years of relevant experience in appa