Project Manager — Storytelling

Nike; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike is seeking a Project Manager for Storytelling in Beaverton, OR, to lead cross-functional delivery across CMS Modernization and DRA workstreams. You will own planning, milestones, and risk management while collaborating with engineering, product, design, and leadership to ensure on-time program delivery.

The role emphasizes a hybrid, product-minded PM with strong stakeholder skills and experience with Agile practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of project and/or program management delivering complex, cross-functional digital initiatives.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams with structured planning and clear communication.
• Experience operating in Agile environments.
• Strong stakeholder management with engineers, product managers, and executives.
• Hybrid role blending project execution with product ownership; prior product management experience expected.
• Experience with Adobe AEM or Adobe Marketing Cloud (AEM, Workfront, etc.).
• Engineering background or hands-on technical experience.
• Familiarity with AI-powered tools or AI-assisted content authoring.
• Experience in B2B, wholesale, or enterprise digital experience programs.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Airtable, Smartsheet, or similar PM platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own project planning, milestone tracking, and status reporting across the CMS Modernization and DRA workstreams.
• Drive execution of the Adobe AEM Cloud Service upgrade from active development through production deployment.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies across engineering, product, design, vendor, and executive stakeholders.
• Identify and actively mitigate risks, blockers, and delivery gaps before they escalation.
• Contribute a product management lens - helping define scope, prioritize backlog items, and translate business needs into clear delivery requirements.
• Support change management and adoption activities as the team transitions to new platform capabilities.

Skills

Program management

Project management

Product management

Agile

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Airtable

Smartsheet

Job description

Title: Project Manager - Storytelling

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 7 months contract

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.

WHY WE'RE HIRING

The Storytelling program accounts for $300M of the team's $1.1B FY27 delivery goal. This workstream spans CMS Modernization and DRA Modernization, including the team's approved Adobe AEM Cloud Service upgrade - a foundational move required to unlock campaign automation, agent-assisted authoring, and scaled wholesale content experiences. Additional program management capacity is needed now to keep this initiative on track and deliver to its value targets.

This role will be embedded in the Storytelling program, partnering closely with engineering, product, design, and program leadership to drive day-to-day execution and ensure delivery milestones are met.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own project planning, milestone tracking, and status reporting across the CMS Modernization and DRA workstreams
• Drive execution of the Adobe AEM Cloud Service upgrade from active development through production deployment
• Manage cross-functional dependencies across engineering, product, design, vendor, and executive stakeholders
• Identify and actively mitigate risks, blockers, and delivery gaps before they escalation
• Contribute a product management lens - helping define scope, prioritize backlog items, and translate business needs into clear delivery requirements
• Support change management and adoption activities as the team transitions to new platform capabilities

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Required:

• 4+ years of project and/or program management experience delivering complex, cross-functional digital initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously with structured planning and clear communication
• Experience operating in Agile environments
• Strong stakeholder management skills - comfortable engaging engineers, product managers, and executives
• Hybrid mindset: this role blends project execution with product ownership sensibilities - prior product management experience is expected

Preferred / Nice to Have:

• Experience with Adobe AEM or Adobe Marketing Cloud (AEM, Workfront, etc.) - Background in CMS, DAM, or digital content platform programs
• Engineering background or hands-on technical experience - not required, but a meaningful differentiator for partnering with development teams
• Familiarity with AI-powered tools, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted content authoring
• Experience in B2B, wholesale, or enterprise digital experience programs
• Proficiency with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Airtable, Smartsheet, or similar PM platforms

SKILLS AT A GLANCE

Core (Required): Program Management · Project Management · Product Management · Agile Stakeholder Alignment · Risk Management · Cross-Functional Leadership

Value-Add (Preferred): Adobe AEM · CMS / DAM Platforms · Engineering Experience · AI Tools & Workflows Jira / Airtable / Confluence · Digital Marketing Technology · Vendor Management

WHAT "GOOD" LOOKS LIKE FOR THIS ROLE

The ideal candidate brings a hybrid background - someone who has managed programs and projects at scale, but who can also think like a product owner: asking why before how, shaping requirements, and helping the team prioritize what matters most. They're structured but adaptable, and they bring enough technical fluency to earn credibility with engineering partners without needing to write the code themselves.

Experience in digital platform modernizations - particularly CMS upgrades, cloud migrations, or content toolchain transformations - is a strong signal. Adobe platform familiarity is a meaningful accelerator given the team's approved path to AEM Cloud Service. Exposure to AI-powered tools or agentic workflows is increasingly relevant as the program builds toward automation-first storytelling capabilities.