Director, Program Management

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

Nike Direct Horizontal Program Management serves as the connective tissue across the Nike Direct ecosystem, enabling the successful delivery of the company's most complex and strategically important marketplace initiatives. As a Director, Program Management, you will lead a team of program managers and partner closely with senior leaders across Product, Technology, Operations, Merchandising, Planning, Supply Chain, Finance, Consumer, and Marketplace teams. You will operate as a trusted advisor, facilitator, and execution leader, helping teams align around priorities, navigate complexity, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The ideal candidate is an exceptional program leader who thrives in highly complex environments and can seamlessly operate between strategic discussions and executional details. They are equally comfortable influencing senior executives, facilitating difficult conversations, developing talent, and diving deep into program mechanics when necessary. They bring a strong point of view, sound judgment, and the confidence to challenge assumptions while maintaining trusted relationships across stakeholder groups.

They are known for their ability to create order from complexity, accelerate decisions, and help organizations accomplish outcomes that would otherwise be difficult to achieve. They lead with courage, accountability, and an unwavering focus on delivering impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience or training.
• 10+ years of program management experience with progressively increasing scope, complexity, and organizational impact.
• Proven experience leading large-scale, cross-functional delivery programs involving multiple business and technology organizations.
• Demonstrated success managing and developing high-performing teams.
• Experience influencing and partnering with senior executives and cross-functional leaders.
• Strong expertise in program governance, risk management, dependency management, planning, and organizational alignment.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into concise executive communications, recommendations, and decisions.
• Technical experience and familiarity with product and technology delivery practices preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills.

The strongest candidates will demonstrate:

• Exceptional leadership presence and credibility at all levels of the organization.
• The ability to influence outcomes without relying on positional authority.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to balance competing priorities through an enterprise lens.
• A track record of building trust across diverse stakeholder groups with differing objectives.
• Courage to surface difficult truths, challenge assumptions, and drive clear decision-making.
• An ownership mindset characterized by initiative, resourcefulness, and a bias for action.
• The ability to move fluidly between strategic planning and detailed execution while maintaining focus on business outcomes.
• A passion for developing people, strengthening teams, and creating environments where others can perform at their best.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

As Director, Program Management, you will lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale marketplace initiatives that span multiple functions, organizations, and leadership teams. You will bring clarity to ambiguity, connect strategy to execution, and ensure teams remain aligned on the decisions, risks, priorities, and actions required to achieve business outcomes. You will serve as an objective, enterprise-minded leader who drives accountability, facilitates critical decisions, and helps teams move faster and smarter together.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of high-performing program managers responsible for delivering complex, cross-functional marketplace initiatives.
• Drive end-to-end program execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment between strategy, planning, execution, and business outcomes.
• Establish and maintain program governance structures, operating rhythms, decision forums, and executive reporting mechanisms.
• Facilitate executive steering committees and leadership reviews, ensuring decisions are made with the appropriate context, tradeoffs, and actionable next steps.
• Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate risks, dependencies, and execution challenges before they impact delivery.
• Partner with senior leaders across business and technology organizations to align priorities, resources, sequencing, and roadmap decisions.
• Create clarity where ambiguity exists by defining approaches, structuring work, developing plans, and driving progress even when a path forward is not immediately evident.
• Foster a One Team mindset that enables healthy debate, strong partnerships, transparency, and collective accountability.
• Elevate program management practices across the organization while continually improving how teams plan, communicate, govern, and deliver.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.