Lead Product Line Manager, NA Local Creation Apparel

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

The Lead Product Line Manager, North America Local Creation Apparel will report into the Senior Manager, Product Line Management, North America Local Creation Apparel. This role involves working closely with Product Line Management peers and leaders, partnering with Design and Development within a dedicated Apparel triad to shape product direction, drive clarity, and enable strong execution across the end-to-end product creation process. The role focuses on Nike apparel across consumer groups and sports, with a strong emphasis on sportswear. The individual will maintain ownership of a dedicated product segment, leading work from early concept and briefing through seasonal execution and sell in. Collaboration with cross-functional partners, including Merchandising, Sales, and Global Product Creation teams, is essential to ensure alignment with consumer needs, seasonal strategies, and marketplace opportunities. This position is ideal for an experienced product leader with a strong product point of view, fluency in the North America consumer and marketplace, and the ability to lead complex product work with confidence and precision. The candidate should be highly organized, strategic, and execution-driven, with a passion for trend, sport, and culture, and a sharp understanding of creating distinctive product for specific consumer and marketplace segments. The role requires balancing the demands of growing both mindshare and market share while delivering relevant, meaningful, and differentiated product. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, delivers clear and compelling briefs, moves with urgency and accuracy, brings structure to ambiguity, and maintains high standards of operational excellence. This role necessitates a high degree of partnership and alignment across teams, with the ability to bring stakeholders together around shared priorities and deliver well-integrated outcomes. Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills are crucial for navigating complexity and competing priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Retail Merchandising, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in apparel product creation, product line management, merchandising, or a related discipline.
• Fluency in the North America apparel consumer and marketplace, with strong intuition for trend, sport, culture, and emerging insights.
• Proven experience owning a dedicated product segment end-to-end and delivering consumer led product at speed.
• Experience working with large wholesale retailers and cross functional partners.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage complex workflows.
• Confidence translating strategy into clear briefs, tools, and direction for cross functional partners.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across functions and drive alignment toward shared outcomes.
• Polished communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for continuous improvement and elevating both product outcomes and ways of working.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity while maintaining high standards of quality, accuracy, and accountability.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with large wholesale retailers is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of a dedicated product segment, leading product strategy, briefing, execution, and sell in.
• Translate consumer insight, trend, and seasonal priorities into clear product direction and briefs, working closely with Design and Development to deliver compelling, timely product for the North America consumer.
• Drive excellence across the product creation process, ensuring details are accurate, timelines are met, and outputs are clear and actionable.
• Contribute to presentations, collaborative working sessions, and ongoing process and tool evolution.
• Maintain strong accountability for quality and delivery.
• Exercise sound judgment, foster strong cross-functional partnership, and balance speed with rigor.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees