Product Vision & Strategy
Define long-term direction and roadmaps that align stakeholders and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Technical Product Management · PMP
Rachel
Wnorowski
Data-driven product leader with 25+ years delivering innovative, consumer-obsessed solutions for global product portfolios. I turn strategic vision into shipped product — and inspire the teams who build it.
25+
Years leading delivery
10+
Years driving product at Nike
1.4M
Active products realigned globally
Global
Cross-functional teams led
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About
I excel at planning, prioritizing, and steering high-profile, complex products through their full lifecycle — aligning objectives, building the business case, and managing dependencies so the right solution ships.
I define long-term vision and strategy for product creation and sustainability teams, aligning the roadmap with stakeholders so the most important capabilities deliver real business value. As an approachable, curious leader, I build trust and manage global cross-functional teams in an Agile product model — leading change, communicating clearly, and mentoring across the organization.
With over a decade at Nike, I've delivered programs alongside engineering teams across Sustainability, Innovation, and the Office of the General Counsel — coordinating architecture, principal engineering, and business partners to land the right technical solution.
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What I do
Delivery Management
Drive end-to-end delivery — scope, dependencies, iterative deployment, and rigorous testing for optimal results.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Build and inspire global teams across DevOps, engineering, design, and business partners in an Agile model.
Data & Insights
Lead with qualitative and quantitative metrics — user feedback, accuracy, and substantive goals — to guide decisions.
Product Lifecycle Mgmt.
Shepherd products from prototype to production release, balancing progress over perfection with lasting value.
Superior User Experience
Apply design thinking and consumer obsession to build products users genuinely love.
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Experience
Lead Product Manager / Lead Product Owner
Nov 2018 — Present
Product leadership across portfolios, platforms, and engines. Lead for Global Line Planning, the Global Sustainability technical portfolio, Innovation Collaboration & Operational Excellence, and Size & Fit consumer creation products.
- Led the global realignment of product construct changes across Consumer Product & Innovation teams — updating 1.4 million+ active products to enable the new Move to Sport offense.
- Managed Sustainability and Innovation engineering teams across off-shore, near-shore, and on-campus members, spanning DevOps, full-stack and front-end engineers, cloud, SaaS integrations, and APIs.
- Expanded the Global Sustainability portfolio with financial reporting, data analysis, and design thinking — tying delivery to carbon-reduction and consumer-facing sustainability goals.
- Integrated AI/ML insights into Size & Fit products, advancing inclusive sizing and body-image capture for the Advanced Innovation team.
Senior Project Manager / Business Consultant
Summer 2014 — Nov 2018
Led Email Archiving and eDiscovery subprojects with Nike Legal — defining retention and eDiscovery requirements across Technical Infrastructure, Global Technology, and Legal, and coordinating vendor migrations on Legal's critical path.
Senior Project Coordinator / Manager
Summer 2012 — Spring 2014
Drove deployment and upgrades of the global document-management solution for Nike Legal, including repository migration, regional rollouts, vendor and chargeback cost management, and budget-vs-actual analysis.
Project Manager
Professional Services — Class Action & mass litigation administration
A senior member of the professional services team managing the firm's most complex, demanding projects from needs assessment through finalization — client consulting, SOP development, RFP/RFI response, and escalation management.
- Directed teams of 3–6 (coordinators, engineers, testers), sized to project needs, with hiring input and final decisions.
- Owned projects with high data-security requirements — NIST, FISMA, HIPAA, and PCI levels — including infrastructure-level security audits.
- Business sponsor and trainer for dashboard, CSM, and claims-processing tooling, coordinating releases, UAT, and approvals with technical analysts.
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Credentials
Certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP)2011 · renewed 2023
- Technology Scrum Master — Scrum Alliance2017
- SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager2017
- Six Sigma Green Belt — GE Corporate2004
- Project Management Certificate — PSU2010
Recognition
- Multiple peer & leader "High Five" nominations2021–2024
- Milestone Award — Legal Compliance Initiative2018
- Achievement Award — 100% Client Satisfaction2010
- Legendary Service Award2006
Education
- B.A. Political Science / International Studies — Japanese minorUniversity of Oregon
- Study AbroadWaseda University, Tokyo
Selected training
- TPMO Core & Design Essentials — Nike2022
- Manager Essentials — Nike2021
- Supply Chain U — Nike2016
Let's talk
Looking for a product leader who ships with clarity?
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