Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager
Description
Consumer Product & Innovation (CP&I) partners with Nike’s product creation engine across innovation, merchandising, creation, and commercialization. As Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager, you will be a core member of the CP&I extended leadership team. You will translate strategic investments into business outcomes, own end-to-end delivery of complex technical and strategic programs, and lead planning and execution across engineering teams and stakeholders globally.
What You Will Do
Own the integrated delivery portfolio for CP&I’s most critical programs, from strategy and planning through launch and value realization. Lead quarterly planning and dependency alignment across business and technology leaders and drive enterprise tradeoff decisions to resolution. Establish the governance, metrics, and executive reporting that give leadership a clear view of progress, risk, and business value. Represent the TPM organization in leadership forums, and coach program managers across the organization to raise the bar on how they work.
Who We Are Looking For
We are looking for a leader who translates enterprise strategy into an integrated portfolio of business and technology outcomes. You have a proven record of owning execution across an organization’s most critical programs and ensuring investments deliver timely, measurable business value. As an individual contributor, you will lead through influence rather than direct authority: partnering with engineering teams, shaping technical decisions that keep delivery on track, and aligning senior business, technology, and operations leaders around shared outcomes, critical decisions, and enterprise tradeoffs.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned program leader who combines technical depth, strong leadership and communication skills, and experience leading digital and technology transformations. You bring breadth across multiple technologies and depth in key technical areas, and you have demonstrated success in agile, program-based operating models. You will serve as the single point of contact for programs from PHK and partner closely with peer program managers in other geographies to deliver program outcomes. You build trusted relationships across functions to align strategies, and you are a strategic problem solver who can prioritize multiple competing demands while driving plans to execution. You are ready to operate as a trusted thought partner to senior leadership.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10+ years of Technical Program Management or product experience, including 5+ years leading multi-team, enterprise-scale programs across multiple technology platforms and business areas.
- Track record of challenging the status quo constructively and driving lasting changes to processes, operating models, or ways of working.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic, results-oriented matrixed environment.
- Delivery experience using Agile and Waterfall methodologies, including leading scaled, multi-team planning such as quarterly PI planning and cross-team dependency management.
- Demonstrated experience leading beyond your own programs, including mentoring program managers, and shaping organizational.
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture, including service-oriented and cloud-native solutions, with the judgment to evaluate architectural tradeoffs and their impact on delivery.
- Executive-level communication and influence, including strong oral and written communication, building trusted relationships with cross-functional partners to deliver key strategic initiatives, translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa, and presenting concise recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to VP and SVP audiences.
- Relevant experience in Retail, Consumer Product Development, Innovation, Supply Chain, and Operations preferred.
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent education and experience
- 10+ years of Technical Program Management or product experience
- 5+ years leading multi-team, enterprise-scale programs across multiple technology platforms and business areas
- Experience driving lasting changes to processes, operating models, or ways of working
- Ability to work with ambiguity in a dynamic, results-oriented matrixed environment
- Delivery experience using Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Experience leading scaled, multi-team planning, including quarterly PI planning and cross-team dependency management
- Experience mentoring program managers and contributing beyond individual programs
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture, including service-oriented and cloud-native solutions
- Executive-level communication, influence, and cross-functional relationship-building skills
- Experience translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and presenting recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to VP and SVP audiences
- Experience in Retail, Consumer Product Development, Innovation, Supply Chain, or Operations
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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