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You will be instrumental in creating a team with a strong focus on instilling trust, effective collaboration, high performance culture and mindset to exceed business expectations and outcomes. Ability to navigate in a complex matrixed organization and lead the team towards successful delivery and individual career growth. In this role we are looking for a high performing Engineering Manager to play a critical role in building Retail Commerce & NIKE CASH product capabilities.\nA successful Software Engineering Manager focuses on strategic impact, people management, knowledge management, business understanding and partnership, product thinking, and team empowerment and autonomy. You bring informed perspectives on AI and agentic engineering, and the ability to reason about architecture and platform trade-offs even when you are not writing production code daily.\nIt is the Software Engineering Manager’s responsibility to educate and align your reports on Nike’s goals and objectives. Understanding Nike’s strategies and objectives and communicating them to your reports will guide their overall success.\nIn this role you will field the best team and be directly responsible for the well-being of your development squads. With regards to hiring, the Software Engineering Manager will decide the number, necessary budget and technical competencies of the development squads in their domain. This includes partnering with Nike’s Talent Acquisition team and external suppliers to apply the best candidates given the needed capacity.\nAs a people manager you will also coach, guide and drive your squad members. You will provide a culture of learning to ensure that team members are well equipped to successfully deliver working software. This includes preparing your team members for technology and strategic shifts within the broader Global Technology organization.\nYou will develop the work plans, technical priorities and partner with Product Managers, Program Managers and Program to validate the correct amount of new product work and technical investment-balancing near-term delivery with 2-3 year strategic horizons, portfolio simplification, and\nbuild/buy/partner/platform decisions. Finally, in your role you will be expected to resolve technical issues and business issues as necessary. In some cases, you may need to escalate these decisions to your leaders, but the Software Engineering Manager is expected to have the confidence and empowerment to make the right technical and commercial decisions.\nYou will apply business and commercial acumen-understanding P&L and value drivers, cost of technology, ROI, marketplace dynamics, and vendor economics-to ensure engineering investments align with Nike's strategic priorities. You will model change and learning agility, staying current with emerging technologies (including AI and agentic systems) and preparing squads for shifts in tools, platforms, and ways of working.\nWHAT YOU WILL WORK ON\nProvide engineering leadership and best practices to continuously build new platforms and deliver working software.\nContribute towards establishing best practices; drive collaborative review of design, code, test plan and dataset implementation performed by other engineers in support of delivering high quality product features.\nResponsible for driving excellence in Dev/Ops such as continuous integration, deployment, and improvement, test automation, instrumentation and observability, SLAs, high-availability, and improvement of ops metrics.\nDisseminate technical knowledge to the team members on emerging ideas through multiple forums (e.g., user groups, tech talks, design reviews, internal blogs).\nOwns the resource plans for the area (right talent and team composition)\nMentor and develop other engineers. 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