Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
NIKE, Inc. is a place to explore potential, push boundaries, and create the future of sport. We are looking for leaders who combine strong engineering expertise with a passion for developing people and building high-performing teams.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Product Engineering to join our Taiwan PMO Prodcut Engineer team and lead both product excellence and team capability development across the footwear product creation process and organization.
In this role, you will act as a key connector across Product Creation, Innovations, Manufacturing Engineering, and Factory partners, while also serving as a people leader who scales engineering capability across the team and partner network.
You will also bring deep engineer experience and knowledge to guide complex product decisions, while driving team performance, collaboration, and long-term capability building.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
People & Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Engineers, building a strong pipeline of technical and leadership talent, establish culture of belonging, inclusive of diversity, strengthen the ownership, set up collaboration mindset, and continuous improvement. Mentor engineers and elevate team capability in areas such as pattern engineering, tooling, manufacturing, and product creation, drive knowledge sharing, standard work, and best practice adoption across PMO and PCC partners, foster an inclusive environment that encourages diverse perspectives and strong team engagement.
Product Engineering Excellence & Technical Leadership : Drive product engineering execution from concept through commercialization and manufacturing readiness, leverage deep technical expertise to solve complex engineering challenges and guide critical decisions, review and validate product designs, samples, and technical data, establish and implement engineering best practices to ensure product quality, performance, and manufacturability, apply structured and creative problem-solving to deliver optimal solutions for performance, cost, and scalability.
Cross-functional Leadership & Execution : Drive alignment across Product Creation, Materials, Innovation, Manufacturing, and Factory partners to ensure execution excellence, act as a bridge between Nike teams and factory partners, ensuring clear communication and decision-making across the product lifecycle, ensure products are manufacturing-ready at key milestones, balancing performance, quality, cost, and timeline requirements, lead issue resolution through root cause analysis and drive effective countermeasures.
Strategic & Capability Leadership: Translate category and engineering strategies into actionable plans for team execution, influence adoption of innovation, new processes, and manufacturing technologies, build scalable systems, processes, and standards that improve long-term team effectiveness, strengthen alignment across global and regional stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
PMO Product Engineering, Development, and Manufacturing teams
Global and regional Sport & Engineering team
Factory partners and external suppliers
Cross-functional teams (Innovation, Materials, Costing, Product Testing, Chemical, Tooling, Supply Chain)
You will operate in a highly matrixed, global environment, requiring strong influencing, alignment, and partnership capabilities with strong people and team-oriented mindset, want to lead and growth together with the team.
WHAT YOU BRING
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field (advanced degree preferred)
8+ years of relevant experience in footwear engineering, development, or manufacturing
Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing teams
Deep technical expertise in footwear engineering, tooling, materials, or manufacturing processes
Strong ability to influence and align stakeholders in a matrixed organization
Demonstrated problem-solving capability in complex product and manufacturing scenarios
Strong communication and storytelling skills to translate technical insights into clear direction
Ability to work across cultures and navigate global partnerships
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field
- 8+ years experience in footwear engineering, development, or manufacturing
- Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing teams
- Deep technical expertise in footwear engineering, tooling, materials, or manufacturing processes
- Strong ability to influence and align stakeholders in a matrixed organization
- Demonstrated problem-solving capability in complex product and manufacturing scenarios
- Strong communication and storytelling skills to translate technical insights into clear direction
- Ability to work across cultures and navigate global partnerships
- Advanced degree (preferred)
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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