About the role
Principal Technical Product Manager, Platform Governance – Nike
Beaverton, Oregon
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
The Systems & Infrastructure Engineering Technical Product Management team builds Nike's managed cloud and developer platforms, turning 1,750+ cloud accounts across AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud into governed, cost-transparent products. This role reports to the Senior Director, Technical Product Management, and partners with engineering, cybersecurity, FinOps and Finance.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We're looking for a Principal Technical Product Manager to lead product development for the governance of Nike's managed cloud infrastructure and developer platform. This role makes Nike's development and infrastructure services governable and auditable by design, turning policy, SDLC controls and audit evidence into product capabilities that engineers adopt rather than work around. The candidate needs deep technical fluency in public cloud, infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code, combined with the business judgment to frame platform investments in terms of risk, cost and value. They influence across organizations they don't manage, work through conflict between competing priorities to reach durable decisions, and raise the bar for the product managers around them through coaching and example. They can step in across adjacent platform areas when needed. This is not a project or program coordination role: candidates should be ready to own product strategy, make hard prioritization calls and defend them with data.
- Bachelors degree in product management or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training required
- 10+ years of experience in technical product management, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure, including platforms adopted across multiple business units
- Hands-on experience with governance and compliance for cloud or developer platforms, such as policy-as-code, enforced SDLC controls, internal developer portals and audit evidence automation
- Proven record of cross-organizational alignment: framing strategy in business terms, resolving conflict between senior stakeholders and coaching other product managers
- Experience with FinOps operating models, including showback or chargeback and unit economics, is a strong plus
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
You'll own the product strategy for governing Nike's managed cloud and developer platforms, driving product development across engineering, security, finance and technology organizations. You'll make the compliant path the easiest path for thousands of engineers.
- Define the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for platform governance, including enforced SDLC controls, policy-as-code guardrails and automated audit evidence across development and infrastructure services
- Own the internal developer portal as a product: golden paths, self-service capabilities and adoption metrics that show where engineers succeed and where they get stuck
- Lead cross-functional product development with platform engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture and site reliability teams, writing clear requirements and making scope trade-offs
- Partner with FinOps and Finance to connect governance to cost, using cloud inventory and cost attribution to drive remediation and better investment decisions
- Explore where AI can strengthen infrastructure operations, from automated policy remediation to agent-assisted day-to-day support
- Coach and mentor product managers across the team, and step in across adjacent platform areas to keep critical work moving
- Lean into the hard parts: resolving ownership disputes between organizations, retiring ungoverned legacy patterns and making the business case for controls whose payoff spans multiple quarters
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 .
