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, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
NIKE is a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR?
Are you someone who can become an integral part of the team that enables Nike to bring its elite products and experiences to market? Can you work across a number of capabilities to understand portfolio roadmaps, programs, and key value drops? Are you someone who can partner closely with teams including program, product, engineering, release engineering, and quality to not only complete releases, but continually improve process, achieve efficiencies, and deliver a quality product timely.? If so, Nike is looking for you!
WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?
The Sr Release Manager will work alongside team members to collaborate on direction, strategy, planning, prioritization, and ongoing drive of the global change & release framework. The Sr Release Manager is also responsible for driving operational strategies, including:

• Driving effective release framework and governance with a continuous delivery demeanor across multiple teams and geographies.
• Handle all change activity from planning through testing, to deployment.
• Develop risk management and prioritization for releases of any size.
• Work with Support and Operation teams to ensure operational readiness.
• Communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization through written and verbal communication, both formal and informal.
• Strive to a global release cadence that defines the cycles, structures, and required oversight to deliver products and experiences to production.
• Define and publish key measures that demonstrate the efficiency of releases as well as areas of improvement for the Release management framework.
• Partner closely and continually with product, program, quality, engineering, support, and release teams to align on scope, release cadence, delivery and support requirements.
• Partner with the business and IT collaborators to drive release scheduling decisions.
• Provide status reports to key internal/external team members.
• Handle go/no-go, checkpoint, and retrospective meetings with release partners.
• Participate in Capability Stand Ups and PI Planning sessions to resolve and plan for upcoming release scope.
• Identify and drive retrospective items to completion.

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH?
You will partner with Global Technology teams to cultivate collaboration, alignment and coordinated planning and execution across all functions. You will have close partnership with the Portfolio, Product, Technology and Strategy functions. You will work closely to coordinate with other Technology teams on dependencies for cross-functional deployments.
What you bring to nike

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field or combination or relevant education, experience, and training
• Overall 5 years of proven experience in Technology and/or release management.
• A deep understanding and practical application of standard release process(s), agile methodologies, and technical capabilities (including agile - lean, continuous delivery, SAFE, ITIL)
• Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow
• Experience working with teams who use development and deployment automation tools in the software development and deployment lifecycle.
• Successful track record of applying operational readiness techniques to sophisticated feature implementations.
• Experience at developing risk management and prioritization for production changes.
• Strong relationship-building skills and experience working closely with leaders and cross-functional partners to deliver key critical initiatives.
• Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills with the ability to empower and influence others, negotiate during situational conflict, and establish the best forward path in the face of competing points of view.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic, matrixed environment.
• Demonstrable experience operating in a sophisticated, federated global organization with a geographically dispersed team.
• Retail experience will be an asset.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.