Principal, Program Management, Advanced Product Ventures

We change the game when we break the rules. The powered athlete team has been created to break the rules of human potential, delivering boundary-pushing innovations to empower everyday athletes in expansive ways. We accelerate and empower a hybrid physical/digital future, developing cutting-edge technologies to serve forward-thinking athletes. Our team is innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will work closely with the GM and all sub-teams: Product, Nike Sports Research Lab lead, Engineering, Design and Go-To-Market to successfully bring products to market. 

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a Program Management Principal to join a newly formed team developing innovative, powered athlete products. This role will drive project scheduling, functional coordination and overall execution of our product roadmap across all teams.

WHAT YOU BRING:

•    Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training.
•    Degree in program management or related field and 15+ years of experience leading and managing consumer electronics product development and engineering development teams. 
•    Experience in defining and implementing product development processes; ability to drive and ensure process standardization and adoption of best practices.
•    Excellent team communication and problem-solving skills.
•    Familiarity with sprint-based (or Agile) development processes.
•    Strong experience in managing international manufacturing partners and vendors.
•    Experience in engineering design of consumer electronics is a plus.
•    Experience in managing user experience driven product development and processes is a plus.
•    Good systems knowledge of embedded software, electronic hardware, wireless communications and device-to-web integration and the challenges they present in Product Development is a plus.
•    Positive energy, curiosity, and a passion for building magical products that users love.
•    Strong technical savvy and understanding/curiosity about emerging innovative technologies.
•    Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous learning is core to our identity.
•    Willingness to roll up your sleeves to win as a team.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

As a Program Management Principal, you will be responsible for driving our offense across all sub-teams, driving the process for execution, communication, alignment, and prioritization across all our work. This includes utilizing our current set of program management tools and processes, as well as looking to continually improve and optimize how we work, meet, communicate, make decisions, and deliver.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

•    Deploy world-class program management processes and tools while encouraging a data-driven culture supporting decision making, prioritization, and process gates/dates approvals.
•    Drive a process that results in predictable top-down and bottom-up communication alignment and trust; clearly connect communication and top-down planning to daily execution (Goals, OKRs, PgM Review, etc).
•    Map and analyze current processes and capabilities, identifying bottlenecks and pain points. 
•    Coordinate and capture all key program learnings, data, KPI’s, metrics, and decisions.
•    Develop and refine processes for integrating waterfall and constraints-driven hardware development processes with Agile/Scrum-based software delivery processes.
•    Drive portfolio-level trade-off decisions and alignment to achieve efficient resource allocation and deployment.
•    Manage risk across our programs through applications of our PD processes: minimizing parallel path efforts where possible, setting expectations for data-driven decisions, facilitating clear resource trade-offs across functions and programs.
•    Manage program budget, including processes for bottoms-up budget creation, monthly forecasting, and portfolio management to land the budget to target yearly; own the budget narrative and process across all sub-teams.
•    Work to continuously improve our processes, communication, prioritization, and decision making.
•    Manage resources and workload with internal and external (including partner) teammates. 

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