Principal Digital Program Manager, Innovation

The AIC Digital Capabilities team provides a competitive advantage by leveraging the power of modern technologies, methodologies, skills, and services to fuel advanced athlete insights, product innovation, and craft. We seek to identify and accelerate new digital approaches to generating athlete insights, designing innovative products, and using digital experiences to create compelling consumer product and services!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are currently seeking a Principal Digital Program Manager with a strong technical and creative aptitude, and proven experience managing digital technologies and capability development. This role will lead product proof of concept and pilots, help gather and organize feedback and performance metrics, and establish the groundwork for product transition and will serve as a strategic thought partner to the Program & Portfolio team by connecting dots and providing a comprehensive perspective across key areas of the digital portfolio.

Our ideal candidate is comfortable navigating ambiguity, building from scratch, and always having a bias for action. They can develop solutions for challenges without an existing playbook. And they know how to partner with various partners to ultimately implement change.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

As a Principal Digital Program Manager, you will be required to apply core project management, communication, presentation, and creative problem-solving skills to drive and deliver projects of the highest level of quality that ultimately build great products. Success is defined not only as on time and on budget but partnering with the core team as well as other teams within Nike to discuss and define needs, document, and meet business requirements in a way that demonstrates creativity, a high-level of quality and, most importantly, resulting in great products.

Fundamental elements of this work include:

• Drive and manage pilots to help prove plausibility of technology innovation, including leading project scope, requirements, and success metrics.
• Work with cross functional teams across the business, and balance multiple projects across multiple seasons, and multiple platforms.
• Maintain all project documentation and specifications for your projects, including schedules, and presentation materials
• Identify issues and mitigate quickly, with a strong sense of diplomacy
• Create systems and organization out of a chaotic process
• Ability to be flexible under pressure
• Able to clearly communicate expectations to team members and partners

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

The Principal Digital Program Manager, will be responsible for managing discrete bodies of work, working with the product team to establish and report on objectives and key results, crafting and driving the cadence of critical meetings, and ensuring that program/project progress is accurate and updated regularly. You must be a great teammate and successful collaborator with the ability to work directly with a wide range of diverse teammates. You will work closely with teammates within Innovation and Global Technology. Your ability to be organized and deliver results within an ambiguous innovation process is important in this position.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required or combination of relevant education, experience and training
• Experience (7+ years) as a Program Manager or Sr. Digital Producer in a video game, animation studio, digital agency, and/or consulting environment
• Experience managing and facilitating collaboration among diverse skill sets, including designers, technologists and marketers
• Ability to learn and consolidate highly complex concepts, processes and ideas, and synthesize them into materials to help communicate these ideas in a digestible and simplified manner.
• Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
• Strong project management capabilities to lead multiple project streams and complexity; propensity for thinking through projects in a process-oriented way
• Strong attention to detail, proven track record to organize, prioritize and deliver outcomes
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical audiences
• Outstanding influencing skills with experience engaging diverse set of cross-functional partners
• Highly flexible, able to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Nike, Inc. knowledge and established credibility within the business is a plus

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.

Benefits

Whether it's transportation or financial health, we continually invest in our employees to help them achieve greatness - inside and outside of work. All who work here should be able to realize their full potential.