Nike, Inc.:
Senior Director, Office of TechOps Job in Beaverton, VT

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.




Technology

Nike, Inc. Technology is responsible for making the world’s largest sport brand run faster, smarter and more securely. From infrastructure to security and supply chain operations, Technology specialists drive growth through top-flight hardware, software and enterprise applications. Global Technology aggressively innovates solutions to drive growth while creating and implementing tools that help make everything else in the company possible.




Description
Nike does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. We
are a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries, and push out the edges
of what can be. We’re looking for people who can grow, think, dream and create.
We thrive in a culture that embraces diversity and rewards imagination. We seek
achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about bringing what you have
to a challenging and constantly evolving game.


Group:


If you’re ready to innovate and lead, join Nike’s Global Technology
organization. We bring together technology and process expertise to deliver
one-stop solutions that enable Nike, Inc.'s technical products and services. We
are responsible for creating, developing, and deploying seamless, tailored and
inherently social experiences to its consumers. Working with our organization
will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just another job.


Scope and Responsibilities:


We are looking for a Sr. Director, Office of Tech Ops who
thrives working cross-functionally with teams, developing innovation solutions,
and implementing a dynamic international strategy. You will act as the Chief of
Staff to the VP of Technical Operations (Tech Ops) and lead the team that develops
the cross functional road map, organizes and optimizes daily business
operations functions, program management, and produces data analytics and
reporting to drive business decisions.


The ideal candidate must have a track record of success leading a range
of operational activities. You will demonstrate your exceptional leadership
skills and ability to discover the most efficient ways to run the business
daily and create our future way of working. Our goal is to safeguard and augment
the efficiency of organizational operations to facilitate accelerating
development and long-term success.


You'll have the opportunity to work alongside truly talented people
including Geography teams, business and technology stakeholders, and retail –
bringing them together to create a collaborative, innovative, and high
performing organization.


Qualifications
To make it clear, we're not looking for just anyone.  We're looking for someone special, someone
who had these experiences and clearly demonstrates these skills:


Strategy
Execution
Develop strategic vision and position of domain in
partnership with leadership team
Ensure integration and alignment of enterprise,
function and domain-level strategies through strong partnership with
Finance & Strategy; translate strategy into long-term plans with
goals, outcomes and KPIs
Direct strategic, operational and administrative
activities related to the domain; provide oversight and guidance to
projects with strategic importance; proactively partner across domains to
advance enterprise strategies
Elevate strategic engagement between technology domain
and business stakeholders
Portfolio
Management, Capacity Planning and Budget Visibility
Manage priorities through effective
intake and processes to manage dynamic shifts; ensure ongoing visibility and
transparency of priorities
Create and
communicate domain operational health and performance by leveraging data
and insights to drive action
Prioritize
critical issues and required information to facilitate efficient decision
making by the domain leadership team
Manage
dependencies, capacity / resource allocation and mitigate portfolio risk
Manage
appropriate budgets and hold teams accountable for effective growth
management
Ways of
Working
Foster a culture of openness to enterprise thinking,
efficiency, change and innovation
Support efforts to drive consistent frameworks, tools
& knowledge management across Global Technology; champion community
building and practice sharing
Sustain change and process improvement
Partner with Global Technology Leadership Team to
optimize the domain operating model, in coordination with the broader
Global Technology operating model
Act as a strategic advisor to domain leadership team on
the capabilities, competencies and skills need to support future workforce
strategy
Support efforts to drive employee engagement in
partnership with Communications and HR
Counsel and advise domain leadership team on relevant
technology strategies, policies and external best practices; champion new,
creative ideas through well-structured, well-supported and clearly
articulated points of view balancing risk, reward and trade-offs
Other
Critical Experiences
5 years of experience leading and managing large-scale programs
Experience in driving operational
rhythms and efficiencies for a large, globally diverse organization.
Expertise in driving and
collaborating with cross-functional senior leadership to align business,
domain, and functional roadmap's into a cohesive strategy.
Experience in constructing and
delivering organizational strategies that can be articulated to both senior
business leaders and global team members.  Requires strong influencing and
communication skills.
Expertise in translating
organizational strategy into a set of prioritized initiatives that are managed
and tracked through completion
Experience in configuring and
continuously improving the operating model of the organization based on Product
Management principles
Experience in transforming infrastructure/operational
ways of working to align to Lean and Agile methodologies and the delivery of
Services and Products
Experience in the construction and
operationalization of shared outcome KPIs that align to organizational
strategies, priorities, and operating rhythms
Experience in implementing broad,
global employee engagem