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WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are looking for a Principal Product Developer (Footwear) based in the Guangzhou PMO who is a recognized footwear product creation expert and strategic leader. This role sets the development agenda for complex, high-impact product portfolios, translating consumer, athlete, business, and innovation opportunities into industry-leading footwear solutions that create marketplace advantage. The ideal candidate brings mastery across product development, engineering, materials, manufacturing, costing, sustainability, and project leadership. This person operates across multiple roles and categories, provides senior-level technical and strategic direction, leads through influence, and raises the capability and performance of the broader team. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON As a Principal Product Developer in the Guangzhou PMO, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution of complex product creation programs from early concept through commercialization and production. You will serve as the product development authority across multiple roles, functions, sports teams, and regions—connecting Guangzhou PMO with PHK, Local Creation, PCC, offshore factory partners, and global teams across Product Development, Engineering, Materials, Costing, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Testing, and Innovation to deliver breakthrough product and scalable capabilities. Key responsibilities include: Set and drive the product development strategy for complex franchises, high-risk models, new platforms, and cross-category initiatives. Lead multiple roles and workstreams across product development, technical problem solving, innovation, factory execution, process improvement, and organizational capability building. Translate athlete, consumer, design, performance, sustainability, cost, and business requirements into clear development strategies and executable product plans. Own critical product decisions and development trade-offs from concept through commercialization, ensuring design intent, product performance, quality, profitability, manufacturability, and delivery are achieved. Serve as the senior technical authority for escalated product, material, tooling, engineering, testing, costing, and manufacturing challenges; identify root causes and direct durable solutions. Lead the creation, validation, and scale-up of new concepts, materials, methods of making, technologies, digital tools, and operating models that unlock future growth and competitive advantage. Identify emerging marketplace, manufacturing, and technology opportunities, and convert them into actionable innovation roadmaps, pilots, and scalable capabilities. Lead cross-functional decision-making across large, diverse teams and multiple geographies; align leaders and experts around priorities, risks, resources, and outcomes. Establish operating plans, seasonal priorities, governance, and success measures for assigned portfolios; anticipate risk and intervene early to protect product and business outcomes. Represent Product Development in senior leadership forums and provide strategic recommendations that influence category direction, sourcing strategy, investment, and organizational priorities. Act as a force multiplier for the team by coaching developers, building technical depth, sharing best practices, and creating structured development opportunities for less experienced talent. Stand in for category or functional leadership when requested, maintaining decision quality, stakeholder alignment, and continuity of execution. Shape and embed standards, policies, tools, and ways of working that improve product excellence, speed, efficiency, sustainability, and data integrity across the product creation organization. Provide expert leadership across strategic portfolios, including Running, Basketball, Core, Kids, NSW, and Brand Impact, based on evolving business needs. WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH You will be based in the Guangzhou PMO and partner with senior leaders and expert teams across Product Management, Development, Engineering, Materials, Testing, Costing, Sourcing, Sustainability, Innovation, Manufacturing Partners, and Global Product Creation. You will connect Guangzhou-based teams with PHK, headquarters, PCC, offshore factories, and other product creation partners, leading alignment across cultures and organizational boundaries to achieve shared product and business outcomes. WHAT YOU BRING Experience Bachelor's degree in product development, engineering, manufacturing, design, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Typically 8–10+ years of applied footwear product creation experience, including advanced development work on technically complex or strategically important products. Demonstrated success leading major product initiatives, innovation programs, or complex portfolios across multiple categories, functions, partners, or geographies. Experience operating as a technical or functional authority, influencing senior stakeholders, and guiding decisions without relying on formal reporting relationships. Proven experience coaching, mentoring, and developing product creation talent; prior team, project-team, or formal people leadership experience is strongly preferred. Functional Competencies Expert mastery of end-to-end footwear development, commercialization, manufacturing, and product lifecycle management. Broad technical expertise across construction, materials, tooling, engineering, testing, fit, performance, quality, costing, sustainability, and methods of making. Advanced systems thinking, issue management, risk assessment, root-cause analysis, and decision-making in ambiguous or high-pressure situations Demonstrated capability to lead innovation from opportunity identification and concept creation through validation, adoption, and scale. Strong command of product creation data, digital tools, process governance, and metrics used to improve readiness, efficiency, and product outcomes. Deep understanding of factory capabilities and the ability to elevate partner performance through technical direction, capability building, and long-term collaboration. Leadership Competencies Strategic leadership: shapes long-term direction, establishes priorities, and connects product decisions to business and marketplace opportunities. Enterprise influence: communicates complex issues clearly and aligns senior leaders, experts, and partners around decisive action. Innovation leadership: challenges established approaches, encourages experimentation, and converts learning into scalable product or process advantage. Talent and capability building: provides expert coaching, strengthens technical communities, and raises standards across the function Cross-cultural collaboration: builds trust and leads effectively across functions, organizations, manufacturing partners, and geographies. Executive communication: presents clear recommendations, trade-offs, and decisions with credibility to senior leadership. Operational excellence: establishes accountability, monitors outcomes, and continuously improves how teams deliver product excellence and team excellence. Preferred Experience working in or closely with a China-based product creation office, preferably Guangzhou PMO, and collaborating with factory partners, suppliers, PHK, and global headquarters teams. Track record of delivering breakthrough footwear products, platforms, technologies, or transformational process improvements. Experience across more than one product category, technical discipline, manufacturing model, or product creation role. Ability to travel up to 25% for product creation, marketplace, supplier, and manufacturing engagement.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager at Geographies & Marketplace Experiences - India Technology Center, who will guide you to grow and build your career path. You will be directly working within a team of dedicated engineers that work on the same solutions. You share your experience and technical expertise such that we improve on the longer-term technical strategic direction. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR If you’re ready to innovate and lead in the Digital world, join Nike’s Global Technology - Geographies And Marketplace Experiences Organization. We bring together technology and process expertise to deliver the next generation of applications for Shared Platforms Services. You are responsible for building next generation tools and services that serve consumer ready product information to Nike experiences and back end teams. We are in the process of modernizing our entire product data platform, building scalable applications and services in the cloud. Our operations tools are used by hundreds of users across the globe to plan, prepare, and activate Nike products across multiple Nike consumer experiences. Our product data services are being updated to unlock Omni-channel business cases, and support billions of API calls per month. This is a team that’s always on the offense, working on innovative solutions and building world class solutions to serve Nike teams and consumers around the globe. As a Lead Software Engineer for the Geographies & Marketplace Experiences team, you will be part of a mission critical team focused on building a high-throughput, low-latency, fault-tolerant Order Management platform that drives Nike’s Digital transformation and growth strategies. A minimum of 10+ years software development experience. Experience working in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline development team environment Experience working in a distributed/cloud-based environment (e.g. AWS Services, GCE, Azure etc.) Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale, domain-driven initiatives—architecting scalable solutions, making strategic technical decisions, and driving cross-functional delivery with deep subject-matter expertise.” Experience in micro service architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful Services using Java and Spring Boot framework mandatorily. Working knowledge of Java and relevant frameworks for at least 6 years Independently drive end-to-end project execution—owning design, development, cross-team coordination, and delivery Demonstrate an AI-first mindset, actively leveraging AI powered developer tools (e.g., Cursor) to accelerate development and learning. Experience in Test Driven development – with Junit, Mockito, cucumber, Playwright etc., Experience with observability, monitoring and tracing tools like NewRelic, Splunk, SignalFx, Kibana/Grafana etc. Experience working with NoSQL data stores like DynamoDB and relational data stores like MySQL, Oracle etc. Experience with continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests. Continuous delivery experience preferred. Working knowledge of Scrum and agile principles. Working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment with globally distributed and diverse teams Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of project/capabilities that includes requirements evaluation, design, implementation, code reviews, observability, maintenance and support. Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other relevant subject area, or equivalent experience Experience with CI/CD ( Jenkins ) and engineering hygiene: GitHub workflows (branching, PR reviews, code quality, collaboration) and release readiness Observability and operational readiness using Splunk and SignalFx , including monitoring and alerting Experience delivering Generative AI–based solutions or projects. Hands-on experience implementing Order Management Solutions using IBM Sterling undefined The following would be nice-to-have: Experience in designing and implementing highly scalable web applications Exposure to eCommerce and Supply Chain domain areas like order management, fulfilment, and warehouse management Experience as a Full Stack Developer with strong expertise across both backend services and frontend web applications. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be part of the Shared Platforms Technology Engineering team, which is responsible for building next generation tools and services that serve consumer ready product information to Nike experiences and back-end teams. In this role, you will Participate in requirement gathering/elicitation, end to end solution design, development and delivery of consumer service application leveraging backend cloud native micro services Contribute ideas for new features and identifying technical areas for improvement proactively collaborating with product team members at Nike to design, develop, and deploy a highly scalable digital asset management system and services. You will lead the design and implementation of full stack solutions, partnering with Product Management, UX, engineering, and business teams to solve real-world problems and deliver scalable outcomes. You will translate complex business problems into practical technical solutions, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and user impact. You will define and influence application architecture, establish reusable patterns and standards, and make sound technical decisions that improve scalability, maintainability, and performance. You will contribute hands-on across the stack by building responsive frontend applications and robust backend services, while ensuring strong API contracts and system integration. You will rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on solutions to validate ideas, reduce ambiguity, and accelerate delivery in evolving problem spaces. You will drive solution deployment in ambiguous environments, navigating changing requirements, cross-functional dependencies, and operational constraints to deliver measurable outcomes. You will drive engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, testing discipline, observability, and continuous improvement practices. You will proactively identify opportunities for modernization, innovation, and solution improvements by staying current with industry trends, tools, and architectural best practices. You will use your in-depth experience in software development to write clean, tested, and well-documented code, as well as perform peer code review process and mentor other engineers on the team. You will remain current with industry trends and participate in development of key innovation features. You will support the team’s agile practices, promoting continuous improvement and collaboration to deliver top-notch consumer experiences at scale. Leverage GenAI powered capabilities (RAG, prompt driven workflows, MCP and spec driven architectures) to deliver faster, scalable, intelligent capabilities & experiences Ensure quality of the code and products throughout the entire development lifecycle (DevOps) Ensure continuous improvement in performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, usability, and availability of the platform Leverage agile methodology concepts for quality, delivery and continuous improvement Participate in sprint planning and other scrum ceremonies. Help team plan and execute sprint tickets Work in full DevOps model in the entire tech stack including designing, implementing, deploying, monitoring, and operating services at scale Resolve technical issues and remove blockers for the team Actively participate in code review and feedback for other developers Own build, test, release, and production support for team‑owned capabilities, ensuring stability, incident resolution, and continuous improvement Implement strong observability and operational readiness using Splunk and SignalFx , including monitoring and alerting