The Consumer Product and Innovation team provides the foundation for how we make Nike product; from innovation, to design, development, line planning, and merchandising. We build the tools and enable Nike to keep pace with consumers and stay ahead of what they want.
Who are we looking for:
We are looking for a Director of Software Engineering to lead teams that build and develop web experiences, core platform APIs leveraging AI/ML for Nike’s Product Creation function. This role will need to seamlessly partner and collaborate with business teams, other technology leaders, engineers, architects, and product managers to drive rapid value delivery of reusable, well-architected and highly scalable solutions to modernize Nike’s technology landscape. This role will lead, support and develop engineering team members, manage priorities and deliver results across boundaries. The successful candidate is an inclusive and empowering
technology leader with a history of building trust, tight partnerships and enabling agile teams to solve technical problems in a product model.
What will you do:
This role will lead, mentor, and manage multiple engineering squads to deliver software in alignment to cross-functional and multi-year roadmaps and modern industry trends. You will build a culture of trust and innovation, pushing our teams to explore new and emerging technologies and how those can help us deliver business value at scale. Enable continuous transformational changes to accelerate Nike’s technical maturity, experimentation, standards, best practices, and developer productivity, while inspiring a rich global engineering culture.
Who will you work with:
As a leader in this organization, you will also partner closely with leadership, product managers, architects, principal engineers, and peers across Merchandising and Product Creation and Innovation team to manage priorities and drive alignment on technical decisions. Your team will be a high-performing group of software engineers that will be looking to you to empower them, remove barriers, and maintain a strong team culture.
What you bring
• 15+ years’ experience leading high performing software engineering teams.
• 5+ years in a leadership role, providing strategic leadership and direction to multiple engineering squads.
• 5+ years’ experience with cloud native technologies or platforms like AWS, Azure or other major cloud providers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both technical and business-facing
• Strength in strategic thinking and translating strategy to measurable objectives
• Track record of inspiring others & positive change in solution design, technical delivery, and process improvement
• Passion for learning new technologies, patterns, and practices
• Experience with Agile software development methodology and DevOps (CICD)
• Experience with deploying, monitoring and tracing solutions using tools like Splunk, SignalFx and New Relic
• Fluent in modern software architectural principles and patterns (e.g. REST, domain-driven design, microservices, etc.)
• Experience with current front-end web application tech (e.g. javascript, CSS, html5, Vue, React/redux)
• Experience with distributed cloud systems tech (e.g. node.js, EC2, Kubernetes, Lambda, Bedrock, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch)
• Experience with implementing or integrating AI, Machine Learning and related data solutions preferred.
• Experience developing, monitoring and supporting highly available microservices and applications
• Experience working within large organization or scaled Agile methodologies
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
Skills Required
- 15+ years' experience leading high performing software engineering teams
- 5+ years in a leadership role, providing strategic leadership and direction to multiple engineering squads
- 5+ years' experience with cloud native technologies or platforms
- Experience with Agile software development methodology and DevOps (CICD)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
Nike Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nike and has not been reviewed or approved by Nike.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is complemented by options such as a Mega Backdoor Roth and deferred compensation for eligible earners. Financial coaching and structured savings programs support long-term financial security.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a stock discount sits alongside broad-based equity vehicles like RSUs and non-qualified stock options. These avenues expand wealth-building opportunities beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes maternity and paternity time, recently expanded in the U.S. to 16 weeks and extended to part-time retail teammates. Additional supports include childcare assistance at select locations and family-building benefits such as fertility, surrogacy, and adoption.
Nike Insights
What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., we innovate to serve athletes*. Every teammate - from coder to creator - plays a role in making these athletes’ dreams real. Our tech, data, and digital teams push limits every day, building the future of sport and the tools that drive it. Here, curiosity is fuel. Innovation is the game plan. Different perspectives keep us on the offense. You’ll solve challenges worth tackling, grow fast and belong to a team that backs you to do the right thing. Bring your drive. Bring your bold. Let’s move the world, together. Take your first step at nike.com/careers * If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
Why Work With Us
At NIKE, Inc., your dedication fuels the future of sport. There is a sense of pride that comes from representing an iconic brand and shaping its future. Here, we treat every day as a new opportunity to push boundaries, ask tough questions and share whole-hearted convictions. We are a team – united by the belief that anything is possible.
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