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Lead Product Line Manager, NikeSKIMS

Nike


Job Location:

Beaverton, OR - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 13 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 10 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

WHO YOULL WORK WITH

You will report to the NikeSKIMS Senior Director Product & Merchandising and partner closely with fellow Product Line Managers Merchandising Design Product Development and other key stakeholders across both the Nike and SKIMS organizations. Beyond your core team you will collaborate daily with Materials/Trims Brand Consumer Insights Planning Sourcing and Finance to bring product to life while acting as a senior connector between two iconic brands with a shared ambition: redefining womens activewear.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Were looking for a Lead Product Line Manager to help shape and scale the NikeSKIMS Apparel business. This individual has a proven ability to lead product creation teams in building elevated apparel collections across the seasonal calendar collections that fuse Nikes performance authority with SKIMS mastery of fit form and feel.

In this fast-paced and highly visible role youll thrive in ambiguity navigate competing priorities and embrace the creative tension that comes with building something new between two powerhouse brands. Above all you will be consumer-obsessed someone who deeply understands the NikeSKIMS consumer and translates her needs desires and cultural cues into product she cant live without.

The ideal candidate can establish and cultivate relationships across the broader NikeSKIMS organization while recognizing cultural competitive and consumer trends shaping womens activewear and lifestyle. You will leverage consumer and marketplace insights from how she moves to how she styles her look off-duty and translate them into product narratives that resonate emotionally and drive commercial impact. You will lead cross-functionally to deliver the most distinctive innovative and elevated product in the industry while curating a product line that feels unmistakably NikeSKIMS: strong sexy and made for her.

  • Bachelors degree in Business Marketing Retail Merchandising or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training

  • A minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience

  • Proven ability to manage an apparel category end-to-end and drive multi-season strategy from long-range vision and line architecture to seasonal execution and in-market performance

  • Demonstrated fluency in the female consumer her lifestyle aesthetic preferences fit expectations and how she shops across performance and lifestyle

  • Creativity and passion for product trend fashion color fit and style

  • Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills

  • Demonstrated knowledge of the womens activewear marketplace alongside a strong pulse on culture and fashion

  • Demonstrated leadership capabilities including the ability to motivate influence negotiate and impact the triad across two brand organizations

  • Strong business management experience analytical proficiency and understanding of retail math with experience in Excel/Keynote/Miro/MMX

  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30%

WHAT YOULL WORK ON

As Lead PLM you will own an apparel category end-to-end setting the multi-season vision shaping line architecture and driving seasonal execution that delivers against both brand ambition and commercial targets. You will be accountable for the long-range health of your category: how it evolves season over season how franchises are built and scaled and how the assortment shows up cohesively in-market over time.

You will work daily with Design Development Brand Consumer Insights and Merchandising teams to build seasonal product stories that fuse Nike innovation with SKIMS design DNA. You will lead the triad keeping projects on pace communicating with clarity across Nike and SKIMS partners.

You will drive line plans assortment architecture and future product strategies balancing near-term seasonal delivery with a multi-season roadmap that builds icons grows franchises and creates space for newness. Youll partner with Consumer Insights to bring her voice into every gate of the product creation process from brief to buy and champion the fit feel and emotional resonance that make NikeSKIMS unlike anything else in her closet.

Weekly you will drive on-calendar delivery across product briefs design reviews merchandising plans and marketplace distribution while managing the process for translating cultural moments consumer feedback and marketplace signals into product decisions. You will keep downstream partners aware and accountable ensuring the collection shows up in-market with intention cohesion and impact.

NikeSKIMS is committed to ensuring individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

NikeSKIMS is a growth business built for team members who want to shape whats next. We offer a generous total rewards package a dynamic and collaborative work environment a diverse and inclusive culture and an electric atmosphere for professional development. Every team member shares one mission: To inspire and empower every woman in movement in style and in her everyday.

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.

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.


Required Experience:

Manager


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