Principal Technical Product Manager

This role leads product development for the governance of Nike's managed cloud infrastructure and developer platform. It sits within the Systems & Infrastructure Engineering Technical Product Management team, which builds Nike's managed cloud and developer platforms and turns 1,750+ cloud accounts across AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud into governed, cost-transparent products. The role reports to the Senior Director, Technical Product Management and partners with engineering, cybersecurity, FinOps and Finance.

• Own the product strategy for governing Nike's managed cloud and developer platforms, driving product development across engineering, security, finance and technology organisations.
• Make the compliant path the easiest path for thousands of engineers.
• Define the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for platform governance, including enforced SDLC controls, policy-as-code guardrails and automated audit evidence across development and infrastructure services.
• Own the internal developer portal as a product, covering golden paths, self-service capabilities and adoption metrics that show where engineers succeed and where they get stuck.
• Lead cross-functional product development with platform engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture and site reliability teams, writing clear requirements and making scope trade-offs.
• Partner with FinOps and Finance to connect governance to cost, using cloud inventory and cost attribution to drive remediation and better investment decisions.
• Explore where AI can strengthen infrastructure operations, from automated policy remediation to agent-assisted day-to-day support.
• Coach and mentor product managers across the team, and step in across adjacent platform areas to keep critical work moving.
• Lean into hard parts such as resolving ownership disputes between organisations, retiring ungoverned legacy patterns and making the business case for controls whose payoff spans multiple quarters.

• Bachelor's degree in product management or equivalent combination of education, experience or training required.
• 10+ years of experience in technical product management, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure, including platforms adopted across multiple business units.
• Hands-on experience with governance and compliance for cloud or developer platforms, such as policy-as-code, enforced SDLC controls, internal developer portals and audit evidence automation.
• Proven record of cross-organisational alignment: framing strategy in business terms, resolving conflict between senior stakeholders and coaching other product managers.
• Deep technical fluency in public cloud, infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code, combined with the business judgment to frame platform investments in terms of risk, cost and value.
• Ability to influence across organisations they do not manage and work through conflict between competing priorities to reach durable decisions.
• Ability to raise the bar for product managers through coaching and example, and to step in across adjacent platform areas when needed.
• Readiness to own product strategy, make hard prioritisation calls and defend them with data.

• Experience with FinOps operating models, including showback or chargeback and unit economics, is a strong plus.