Distinguished Engineer - GaME; Geographies & Marketplace

Position: Distinguished Engineer - GaME (Geographies & Marketplace Experiences)
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FORWe are seeking a world-class Distinguished Engineer to help define the future of Nike's global marketplace and digital consumer ecosystem.

This leader will shape the technical strategy behind Nike's consumer experiences including Nike App, SNKRS, , marketplace capabilities, partner experiences, personalization platforms, commerce services, and emerging AI-driven shopping experiences.

As one of the most senior technical leaders within GaME, this individual will operate as a force multiplier across engineering organizations, influencing architecture, technology strategy, product innovation, platform modernization, AI adoption, and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with proven experience building large-scale consumer platforms, modern cloud architectures, AI-powered experiences, and highly resilient digital ecosystems serving millions of consumers worldwide.

This role will help Nike navigate one of the most significant technology shifts in retail history: the transition from traditional digital experiences to AI-powered, agent-driven commerce.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ONStrategic Technical Leadership Define and drive the long-term technology vision for GaME.Partner with VP Engineering, Product, Design and Architecture leaders to establish a multi-year technology roadmap.

Influence architectural decisions across multiple portfolios and domains.

Lead cross-functional technical initiatives that span teams, products, and platforms.

Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives on emerging technology trends and investments.

AI-Powered Consumer Experiences Lead the architecture and adoption of AI capabilities across Nike's digital ecosystem.

Define patterns for recommendation engines, personalization, search, conversational commerce, shopper assistants, content generation and agentic experiences.

Establish best practices for responsible AI, model lifecycle management, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks and AI observability.

Drive the integration of GenAI and agent technologies into consumer experiences, developer tooling and operational workflows.

Help position Nike products and services to thrive within emerging AI shopping ecosystems.

Marketplace & Commerce Architecture Shape the future architecture of Nike App, SNKRS,  and marketplace platforms.

Drive scalable patterns supporting direct-to-consumer, partner, wholesale and future marketplace business models.

Design highly scalable systems supporting global launches, hype events, promotions, inventory visibility and transactional workloads.

Simplify the overall architecture landscape while enabling rapid product innovation.

Cloud Economics & Engineering Efficiency Own technical strategy around cloud efficiency and Fin Ops practices.

Drive architectural decisions that optimize cloud spend without sacrificing reliability, security or customer experience.

Identify opportunities to eliminate waste, reduce infrastructure costs, improve utilization and simplify operations.

Establish engineering standards for performance optimization, workload efficiency and sustainable scaling.

Partner with platform teams to ensure technology investments generate measurable business value.

Engineering Productivity & AI-Enabled SDLCLead adoption of AI-assisted software development practices across GaME.Improve developer productivity through automation, intelligent tooling and platform engineering.

Drive transformation of SDLC processes through AI-powered coding, testing, quality assurance and operational workflows.

Eliminate friction within the engineering ecosystem and accelerate delivery velocity without compromising quality.

Technical Excellence & Operations Establish engineering standards across architecture, security, resilience and observability.

Drive reliability improvements for mission-critical consumer experiences.

Champion modern engineering practices including platform engineering, event-driven architectures, cloud-native development and site reliability engineering.

Lead technical reviews of the most complex architectural challenges across the portfolio.

Help teams solve large-scale performance, scalability and reliability issues.

Innovation & Industry Leadership Stay at the forefront of AI, cloud computing, digital commerce and platform architecture trends.

Evaluate emerging technologies and determine how they can create competitive advantages for Nike.

Represent Nike within technical communities, conferences and industry forums.

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