Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

As part of Global Technology’s Consumer Product and Innovation organization, this role leads an engineering team supporting the Nike Sports Research Lab and developing technology-centered, athlete-facing experiences. The team works with Nike Innovation stakeholders, athletes, designers, data scientists, researchers, and other Global Technology teams to extend research and innovation experiences beyond the lab and engage a larger, more diverse set of participants.

The Senior Manager combines technical leadership with product ownership. The role owns and communicates a product roadmap, translates ambiguous research and innovation goals into actionable requirements and prioritized backlogs, and helps evolve the engineering environment. It also leads and develops direct reports, supports people-management and HR processes, and guides the design and delivery of secure, reliable, maintainable, and performant full-stack applications. The team practices DevOps, continuous testing and release, automation, and monitoring, while partnering across engineering and product teams to scale the ecosystem.

Requirements

• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills, including the ability to translate business and research goals into technical requirements.
• Experience owning a product roadmap and prioritizing a backlog with stakeholders, balancing new features, technical debt, and changing business priorities.
• Sound judgment about the consequences of complexity.
• Expertise designing, building, and consuming reliable, secure, synchronous, and asynchronous web services for front-end use.
• Experience building consumer-facing web UIs using modular and reactive UI frameworks.
• Ability to anticipate and plan for differences between analytical and transactional data and their implications for system design and AI.
• Ability to lead architectural design discussions grounded in best practices and practical experience.
• Experience practicing, evolving, and promoting agile development methodologies, including acting as or working closely with a product owner.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; suitable combinations of education, experience, or training are also accepted.
• Seven or more years of experience in technology and software engineering roles.
• Experience leading engineering teams in a highly collaborative environment.
• Experience partnering with product managers or owners on roadmap definition, prioritization frameworks, and translating user needs into actionable backlogs.
• Knowledge of software lifecycle roles, skills, activities, practices, tools, and deliverables.
• Experience with front-end frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or Angular.
• Hands-on experience implementing and supporting modern architectural principles and patterns, including REST, domain-driven design, and microservices.
• Experience with cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and related tools.
• Strong understanding of architectural design patterns and computer science fundamentals.
• Experience with integration patterns, data movement, and enrichment capabilities, and understanding of related enterprise security and privacy requirements.
• Experience gathering and synthesizing requirements from non-technical stakeholders such as researchers, designers, and scientists.
• Comfort making data-informed product decisions, including defining and tracking success metrics for delivered features.
• A proven, results-oriented track record of achieving aggressive goals.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate a product roadmap, partnering with business stakeholders to drive decisions and prioritize the team’s work.
• Translate ambiguous research and innovation goals into clear, actionable product requirements and a well-groomed backlog.
• Operate effectively within the engineering environment and help it evolve.
• Review technical designs, code, and tests, providing supportive feedback and asking constructive questions.
• Foster a collaborative environment that rewards experimentation, initiative, curiosity, and mentoring.
• Manage direct reports’ performance, growth, and career development, including setting expectations, providing regular feedback, and writing performance reviews.
• Handle people-leadership administration in partnership with HR, including hiring and interviewing, onboarding, compensation planning, and other personnel matters.
• Design full-stack applications for quality, security, reliability, availability, maintainability, and performance.
• Promote DevOps practices, including continuous software testing and releases using automation and monitoring.
• Partner with other engineering and product teams to loosely couple and scale the ecosystem.

Benefits

• Accommodations for the interview process, including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible single-location in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed