Lead Product Manager, Air Manufacturing Innovation

Job Description

At Air Manufacturing Innovation (Air MI), we deliver on Nike’s most daring dream: giving every athlete the unparalleled sensation of walking on air. Since Nike introduced the Air sole in 1979, no technology has become more synonymous with Nike than Air. Our teams engineer, make and perfect Nike’s most advanced footwear components. Masters of teamwork, we challenge assumptions in order to get faster, drive efficiency and fine-tune technology to deliver quality performance plastic. At our state-of-the-art facilities located in Beaverton, Oregon and St. Charles, Missouri, Air MI is taking Air to places that we never thought possible. Learn more about Nike Air Manufacturing Innovation.

The Air Manufacturing Innovation (AirMI) Technology team needs a strong Product Manager with experience working in an agile environment, who’s focus will be to deliver the right solution to customers with the highest quality and shortest lead time. In partnership with Architects, Business Stakeholders, Customers, and Product Owners you will create the Product/solution vision and be responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of multiple end-2-end Supply Chain and Manufacturing Planning technology platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate Program vision and roadmap; ensure alignment to company strategies and business case/ROI development.
• Define Epics, manage and prioritize the Program backlog on an ongoing basis
• Work with stakeholders to define Features from Epics
• Understand current and future customer needs, define features, determine success criteria, validate solutions, and evaluate customer satisfaction
• Ensure teams have the full context and understanding of customers and business environment to create valuable solutions
• Provide oversight of strategy, technical, and transition management aspects
• Assess the business impact of different solutions and the trade-offs between customer needs, technology requirements and costs
• Collaborate with Release Management to determine the optimum release strategy and Product Owners to optimize Feature delivery to the customers
• Analyze and communicate customer adoption, performance, time to market, quality and other metrics to stakeholders
• Ensure Program priorities have necessary funding and review cost of accepted features
• Build an effective Product Manager/Product Owner team and partnership with stakeholders
• Understand how features are performing, the level of customer satisfaction, and provide suggestions for improvements

Skills

• Expert understanding of best-at planning and manufacturing software solutions including SCM, ERP, MES and Analytics with the ability to quickly learn the Nike Technology ecosystem
• Excellent understanding of business and operational processes related to Apparel/Footwear/Hard goods/High-tech end-2-end Planning: Demand, Supply, Production, Capacity.
• Advanced understanding of the Agile principles and methodologies and how they’re applied in workplace culture
• Able to resolve complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions while developing innovative solution designs for the future
• Effective collaboration and relationship management
• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally. Experience resolving issues with higher levels of management
• Experience leading global cross-functional efforts and in resolving complex issues
• Proven ability to respond to and prioritize changing demands effectively coupled with the ability to anticipate customer needs
• Demonstrated experience being self-directed, results orientated with demonstrated ability to achieve aggressive goals despite ambiguity and multiple priorities.

• Minimum 6, ideally 10+, years relevant work experience with Bachelor's degree
• Experience working with Agile teams
• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, VersionOne preferred
• Experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum, LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc.
• Previous experience as a team lead