Senior Product Manager

Overview

Join Nike as a Senior Product Manager reporting to the Director of Product for Activity Apps & Research. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including design, engineering, data science, marketing, sports experts, trainers, and coaches to develop engaging digital experiences that motivate athletes to begin, maintain, and enhance their training to accomplish their goals. You'll be responsible for managing the product roadmap, translating athlete and business requirements into actionable priorities, and steering projects from discovery through launch and enhancement.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the product strategy and manage the roadmap for Nike Run Club (NRC) and Nike Training Club (NTC) applications in partnership with multiple departments.
• Identify areas to enhance athlete engagement such as workout discovery, coaching guidance, habit formation, activity tracking, and achievement celebration.
• Engage stakeholders by providing updates, collecting feedback, managing trade-offs, and ensuring product decisions align with athlete needs, brand goals, business impact, technical feasibility, and operational readiness.
• Drive product discovery and definition activities within your squad and with related teams, including outlining athlete journeys, documenting requirements, defining acceptance criteria, and backlog prioritization.
• Develop seamless experiences incorporating coaching, training plans, guided activities, wearable device integrations, personalized recommendations, and community challenges to motivate athletes across all levels.
• Coordinate with global, distributed teams to align efforts, manage dependencies, and support release and optimization processes tailored for various markets.

Candidate Profile

• Possess a bachelor’s degree in business, product management, computer science, data science, sports science, or relevant field, or equivalent combinations of education, experience, or training.
• Have at least 3 to 5 years of product management experience, preferably with consumer mobile applications, digital fitness, connected health, membership, coaching, content, or engagement platforms.
• Show enthusiasm for sports and movement, striving to empower athletes at various levels with inspiring and intuitive digital solutions.
• Exhibit strong capability in translating athlete insights, behavioral data, training patterns, coaching demands, and market tendencies into clear product requirements, user stories, success metrics, and prioritized plans.
• Possess demonstrated success delivering consumer-facing products that enhance onboarding, habit development, personalization, motivation, community interaction, content discovery, or activity tracking.
• Have skills in defining product strategy, managing prioritization, building business cases, and influencing cross-functional partners including product, design, engineering, marketing, analytics, content, sport, and leadership teams.
• Use data and research effectively to interpret athlete behavior, uncover opportunities, measure engagement and retention, assess feature performance, and guide product decisions.
• Understand mobile app product development processes, including iOS and Android platforms, integrations, experimentation, personalization, privacy, accessibility, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering and design to evaluate solutions, clarify scopes, handle dependencies, support agile delivery, and ensure high-quality experiences globally.
• Exhibit excellence in customer discovery and stakeholder engagement by identifying athlete needs, validating assumptions, and converting feedback into actionable decisions.
• Communicate clearly in both written and verbal forms to influence senior leaders and stakeholders through compelling product storytelling.
• Have in-depth knowledge of modern machine learning and generative AI sufficient to engage substantively with engineers and data scientists about models, evaluation, data pipelines, and product trade-offs.

Preferred Experience

• Background in digital fitness, wellness, coaching, activity tracking, wearable tech integrations, training plans, guided content, challenges, achievements, or motivation features centered around community.
• Familiarity with products like Nike Run Club or Nike Training Club or similar platforms combining coaching, content, personalization, community, and progress tracking.

Additional Information

Nike provides reasonable accommodations for candidates requiring assistance during the interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible interview locations, closed captioning, and other modifications. Requests for accommodations due to disabilities are welcomed via the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.