Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Nike•Beaverton, OR

16h

About The Position

As part of Global Technology’s Consumer Product and Innovation organization, this role leads engineering work that builds technology experiences for Nike’s Product Creation ecosystem. The Senior Manager partners with technical and non-technical stakeholders—including product creation leaders, designers, innovators, researchers, data scientists, athletes, and other technology teams—to transform how Nike products are imagined, developed, tested, and brought to life. The role helps shape modern, modular, configurable, API-first capabilities that can be reused across Product Creation applications and workflows. It combines technical leadership and product ownership: defining and communicating a product roadmap, translating ambiguous research and innovation goals into prioritized requirements, guiding architecture and engineering practices, and coaching engineers. The manager also oversees direct reports’ performance and career development and handles people-leadership administration in partnership with HR.

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.
Strong 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 with 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 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 Computer Science or a related field; suitable combinations of education, experience, and training are accepted.
7+ 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.
Demonstrable knowledge of roles, skills, activities, practices, tools, and deliverables across every phase of the software lifecycle.
Experience with front-end frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or Angular.
Hands-on experience implementing and supporting modern software architecture principles and patterns, such as 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.
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 team work.
Translate ambiguous research and innovation goals into actionable product requirements and a well-groomed backlog.
Help the engineering environment evolve over time.
Review technical designs, code, and tests, providing supportive feedback and asking constructive questions.
Foster a collaborative environment that encourages experimentation, initiative, curiosity, and mentoring.
Manage direct reports’ performance, growth, and career development, including setting expectations, providing regular feedback, and writing performance reviews.
Lead people-related administration in partnership with HR, including hiring and interviewing, onboarding, compensation planning, and other personnel matters.
Help shape reusable, modern, modular, configurable, API-first capabilities for Product Creation applications and workflows.
Coordinate across engineering teams and provide technical guidance and coaching to engineers.
Lead architectural design discussions and promote agile development methodologies.