Principal Technical Product Manager, ITC

This role owns the long-term product direction of a foundational platform behind Nike's merchandising. It sits within Consumer Product & Innovation (CP&I), the technology engine behind Nike's product creation, merchandising, design, and innovation, and reports to a Director of Product Management. The postholder partners with global Product, Engineering, Program Management, and Business stakeholders across a matrixed environment, as well as peers across CP&I and adjacent product organisations.

• Own one of CP&I's foundational platforms in the Merchandising space, leading its long-term product direction, technical evolution, delivery, and adoption.
• Define and own the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platform area within Merchandising.
• Lead complex platform evolution and modernisation efforts, including capability migration, integration, and adoption across product organisations.
• Partner with Engineering and Architecture to shape future platform design, data models, and integration patterns.
• Drive disciplined product discovery, delivery, and rollout, including parallel-run, change management, and adoption with global merchant communities.
• Align roadmaps and trade-offs with peer product teams across CP&I and adjacent platforms, and represent the Merchandising tooling vision in cross-organisational and global forums.
• Champion product craft within the Merchandising portfolio, including frameworks, KPIs, and technical PM practices, and informally mentor PMs across CP&I.
• Bring emerging technologies such as data, AI/ML, and 3D/DPC into the roadmap where they create durable value for the business.
• Define how the platform integrates with the broader Merchandising ecosystem and delivers measurable value to global merchants and the business.

• 9 to 12+ years of product management experience.
• At least 3 years of experience on enterprise platforms, data products, or complex internal tools.
• A track record of leading platform evolution, modernisation, or migration across multiple teams or product organisations.
• Technical depth across data architecture, APIs, integrations, and platform engineering trade-offs, with the ability to partner with engineering and architecture as a peer.
• Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across business and technology in a global, matrixed environment.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale platform and internal products, where the technical and operational depth is real.
• Credibility to influence across product organisations that the role does not directly manage.
• A multi-year view of where platforms should go, with the discipline to deliver outcomes one quarter at a time.
• Comfort shaping future architecture with engineering leaders, simplifying complex problems for executives, and partnering with global merchants to turn workflow needs into product.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training.
• Ability to lead through deep craft, technical fluency, and broad influence rather than direct authority.

• Advanced degree preferred.
• Experience working on global products in consumer, footwear, apparel, or retail domains.
• Exposure to AI/ML or Generative AI applied to enterprise product workflows.
• Hands-on experience with change management for platform transitions, from sunsetting legacy tools to training and onboarding global users on the new ones.