Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

Nike•Beaverton, OR

About The Position

Consumer Product & Innovation (CP&I) partners with Nike’s product creation engine across innovation, merchandising, creation, and commercialization. As Senior Principal Technical Program Manager, you will be a core member of the CP&I extended leadership team, translating strategic investments into business outcomes and owning end-to-end delivery of complex technical and strategic programs. You will lead planning and execution across engineering teams and global stakeholders. You will own the integrated delivery portfolio for CP&I’s most critical programs, from strategy and planning through launch and value realization. The role leads quarterly planning and dependency alignment across business and technology leaders, drives enterprise tradeoff decisions to resolution, and establishes governance, metrics, and executive reporting to communicate progress, risk, and business value. As an individual contributor, you will lead through influence rather than direct authority, represent the TPM organization in leadership forums, and coach program managers across the organization. You will serve as the single point of contact for programs from PHK and partner with peer program managers in other geographies to deliver outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
10+ years of Technical Program Management or product experience.
5+ years leading multi-team, enterprise-scale programs across multiple technology platforms and business areas.
Track record of constructively challenging the status quo and driving lasting changes to processes, operating models, or ways of working.
Ability to handle ambiguity and work in a dynamic, results-oriented, matrixed environment.
Delivery experience using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Experience leading scaled, multi-team planning, such as quarterly PI planning, and cross-team dependency management.
Demonstrated experience leading beyond one’s own programs, including mentoring program managers and shaping organizational practices.
Strong understanding of modern software architecture, including service-oriented and cloud-native solutions, and the judgment to evaluate architectural tradeoffs and their delivery impact.
Executive-level communication and influence, including strong oral and written communication skills.
Ability to build trusted relationships with cross-functional partners to deliver strategic initiatives.
Ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
Ability to present concise recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to VP and SVP audiences.
Breadth across multiple technologies and depth in key technical areas, with demonstrated success in agile, program-based operating models.

Nice To Haves

Relevant experience in Retail, Consumer Product Development, Innovation, Supply Chain, and Operations.

Responsibilities

Own the integrated delivery portfolio for CP&I’s most critical programs from strategy and planning through launch and value realization.
Lead quarterly planning and dependency alignment across business and technology leaders.
Drive enterprise tradeoff decisions to resolution.
Establish governance, metrics, and executive reporting that provide leadership visibility into progress, risk, and business value.
Represent the TPM organization in leadership forums.
Coach program managers across the organization.
Lead execution across engineering teams and stakeholders globally, influencing without direct authority.
Partner with peer program managers in other geographies to deliver program outcomes.
Shape technical decisions and align senior business, technology, and operations leaders around shared outcomes, critical decisions, and enterprise tradeoffs.
Mentor program managers and help shape organizational practices.