Senior Manager, Security Capability Owner – Identity & Access

Nike • Beaverton, OR

23h

About The Position

Nike is looking for a Senior Manager, Security Capability Owner – Identity & Access to lead the strategy, roadmap, standards, and outcomes for Nike’s physical identity and access capability. This role is accountable for the future-state capability that determines who is on campus, what they can access, how access is granted, and how access is monitored and improved over time. The candidate should demonstrate a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training, with 7+ years of experience in product management, program management, security technology, physical security, operations, governance, or related disciplines. The role requires demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives through influence in a matrixed organization, strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to balance strategic planning with practical execution oversight. Experience defining standards, policies, integration requirements, adoption plans, and performance measures is crucial. The role operates as a balance of project manager and program manager, owning capability outcomes, standards, roadmap development, adoption, performance, and prioritization while using PMO and contract project management support for day-to-day delivery coordination. The role is expected to work cross-functionally and collaboratively with peer Capability Owners so Nike’s security modernization efforts operate as one integrated ecosystem.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
• 7+ years of experience in product management, program management, security technology, physical security, operations, governance, or related disciplines.
• Experience developing capability strategies, roadmaps, standards, operating models, and multi-year execution plans.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives through influence in a matrixed organization.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across business, technology, operations, and support functions.
• Ability to balance strategic planning with practical execution oversight and special project management within a defined swim lane.
• Experience defining standards, policies, integration requirements, adoption plans, and performance measures.
• Comfort working with PMO teams, contract labor, delivery partners, and vendors to coordinate implementation without directly managing every project.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to create clear one-pagers, roadmaps, status narratives, risks, KPIs, and leadership-ready updates.
• Data-informed decision making; comfortable using metrics, adoption signals, operating feedback, and risk indicators to improve capability performance.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across adjacent capability domains and avoid fragmented solutions.
• Ability to translate operational access needs into clear capability requirements, standards, and roadmap priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with physical access control, visitor management, credentialing, onboarding/offboarding, badge technology, digital access cards, handheld validation, or access analytics preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Identity & Access capability roadmap, including access control, visitor management, credentialing, onboarding/termination protocols, badge technology, digital access cards, handheld validation, and access analytics.
• Recommend and implement standards and requirements for how identity and access capabilities should work across facilities, technology platforms, operational teams, and user groups.
• Partner with HR, Technology, Security Operations, Places, Privacy, Legal, and delivery partners to align access processes and technology decisions.
• Prioritize improvements that reduce fragmentation, improve user experience, strengthen controls, and support scalable global operations.
• Monitor adoption, performance, risk, and maturity of identity and access capabilities and recommend corrective actions or roadmap adjustments.
• Lead strategic access-related initiatives and special projects while coordinating delivery through PMO and contract project management support.
• Execute the strategy, roadmap, and shepherd capability enhancement and continuous improvement to drive outcomes for the assigned capability.
• Recommend and implement standards, policies, operating expectations, and integration requirements for the capability domain.
• Drive prioritization within the capability domain and make clear recommendations on sequencing, tradeoffs, and dependencies.
• Ensure adoption and performance against intended outcomes, including capability maturity, usability, reliability, and business alignment.
• Provide inputs into portfolio reporting, including status, risks, issues, dependencies, KPIs, decisions, and escalation needs.
• Lead special projects within the assigned swimlane where strategic capability ownership is required.
• Coordinate execution through the PMO, contract project management labor, delivery partners, and functional teams to maintain consistency and avoid fragmentation.
• Collaborate with other Capability Owners to ensure security capabilities operate as an integrated ecosystem rather than isolated tools, processes, or projects.

Benefits

• 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
• Education Level: Associate degree