Nordstrom

Strategy

• Lead high-impact projects supporting the Executive Team
• Build trust with senior leaders and stakeholders
• Frame ambiguous problems with a data-informed approach
• Leverage analytical acumen to uncover insights
• Manage project teams and demonstrate enterprise thinking
• Translate strategic direction into execution plans

Strategy Manager, Enterprise Strategy

Manager

• Build trust, rapport, and a strong collaborative relationship with senior leaders and stakeholders to understand the deliverables, actions, and decisions for which they are accountable
• Frame hard, ambiguous problems by bringing a rigorous, hypothesis-led, and data-informed approach
• Leverage strong analytical acumen to uncover insights and opportunities for unlocking business value
• Synthesize complex inputs into clear, compelling stories that facilitate commercial decision-making and action-taking - in both verbal and written form
• Identify and pursue sources of enterprise value creation in partnership with Strategy directors & SVP of Strategy, Executive Team and operational leaders
• Manage and mentor a team of Associate and Sr. Associate strategists, providing coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities
• Role model enterprise thinking—connecting functional priorities to the broader company strategy
• Translate strategic direction into clear execution plans and operating rhythms, ensuring accountability and momentum across teams
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority, driving alignment and impact
• Live Nordstrom values, showing up consistently with large measures of reliability, effectiveness and a commitment to outcomes.

Senior Manager, Enterprise Strategy

• Own and inform subdivision assortment plans, setting AOR strategy and initiatives that align to total MP priorities; drive category strategy and acquisition strategy by identifying and prioritizing whitespace opportunities
• Analyze data and connect with Acquisition on new performance signals to inform quarterly replans; build category-level forecasts that identify gaps and surface sourcing priorities across your AOR
• Lead Scaled Events strategy, planning, and seller outreach at scale; serve as rotating Scaled Events captain and establish enticed savings events – setting category + seller strategy and impact to plan
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with senior NMG leadership, serving as Liaison to NMG and Liaison for Acquisition; partner with Onboarding Liaison and eComm Merch to align go-to-market strategies and ensure seamless seller integration at scale
• Optimize relationships with T1 Sellers and Strategic T2 accounts through structured connects and business reviews; set seasonal and hallmark curated category strategy, highlighting key categories and sellers (existing + in pipeline) to drive competitive selection and best-in-class customer experience
• Partner with Digital Merchandising on high-heat brand launches and large-scale site visibility initiatives; work cross-functionally across Buying, Customer Care, Marketing, and Product Management to build efficiencies, advocate for sellers, and enhance internal capabilities across the team
• Lead, develop, and manage a team– deploying each team member’s strengths against the right category priorities, coaching individuals to grow their skills, and creating clear accountability structures so the team drives results across seller support, assortment execution, and scaled events

Manager, Category Management – Marketplace

Events

• Support the National Designer Event division with dedicated event planning, operations and execution across the company in partnership with the merchant, pr, marketing teams cross-functionally.
• Develop event strategies in partnership with various leads to drive profitable sales through customer acquisition, activation, retention and engagement by delivering: (1) the Nordstrom story through compelling and immersive experiences highlighting our strategic pillars and (2) persistent events primarily focused on product and support always-on business goals and priorities.
• Responsible to toolkit and roll-out national customer-centric events that drive brand awareness, store traffic, volume and deepens relationships with Nordstrom customers.
• Develop strategic event plans (concept, timelines, outreach, integrations, deliverables) for assigned national divisional lead to ensure multi-channel filters are applied.
• Manage all aspects of event marketing from developing new concepts, overseeing operational logistics and event production, vendor management, coordination with internal and external partners, timelines, tracking event ROI and budget management.
• Lead divisional responsibility event intake to create streamlined toolkits for YOY persistent events to support in-store volume goals laddering to merchant priorities and supporting key brands.
• Manage complex events with multiple stakeholders (internal and external) and manage and effectively communicate both up and down the pyramid.
• Liaise with Corporate based Brand Marketing Team and merchants to ensure alignment on corporate event priorities and overall JWN/marketing goals and initiatives.
• Work closely with external vendors including agencies to ensure cost efficiencies and maintain a consistent brand image in all messaging and activities.
• Collaborate with designer brand partners to bring event strategy and vision to life, ensuring alignment on shared goals and deliverables.
• Stays current on best practices in event marketing, target customer and key competitors while keeping up with the newest trends in in-person events, virtual events and livestream platforms, with event innovation top of mind.
• Maintain an ROI tracking system that reports regional marketing results and spend; analyze results and make marketing recommendations for future initiatives.
• Maintain the Events Roadmap with key stakeholders.
• Maintain a co-op tracker to reconcile brand funded events on a quarterly basis in partnership with the merchants.
• Direct vendor partners to conceptualize and execute joint marketing initiatives.
• Manage and negotiate contracts with Legal/Strategic Sourcing and various external groups to support innovative experiences (non-profit organizations, caterers, production, entertainment, etc.) and ensure all proper contracting is in place.
• Manage brand standards with regional internal partners and external vendors to ensure that all efforts comply legally and meet safety regulations.

Senior Event Marketing Specialist, National Designer Event Support

Data Analyst

• Partner with key stakeholders to define success and develop measurement frameworks
• Dive deep into complex business problems and provide insights on merch performance through hypothesis testing
• Responsible for delivering a suite of analytical products include analyses, dashboards, insights, and recommendations
• Present the results to the stakeholders up to executive level and guide them to make the best use of analytics in their domain
• Own the definition and implementation of new metrics
• Find opportunities to use data to develop new strategies and improve overall performance
• Deliver high quality solutions and recommendations to a variety of problems both independently and through the collaboration with team members and business partners
• Bring data to life through storytelling in a clear and meaningful way to audiences with mixed levels of technical expertise
• Reconcile divergent demands from multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced work environment
• Mentor more junior team members on analytics, storytelling and communication best practices
• Influence and support the Center of Excellence standards and best practices of analytics
• Use advanced analytical and statistical practices to create thorough and actionable insights

Data Analyst 3, Merchandising Customer Insights

• Assist with community engagement and corporate event programs, ensuring timely and accurate execution of all activities.
• Coordinate logistics for community-focused and corporate events, including invitations, Benevity sign-up pages, catering, event needs and communication, and onsite support.
• Develop and maintain event timelines, run-of-shows, and post-event debriefs to support continuous improvement.
• Maintain calendars, track deadlines, and provide regular updates to team members on program and event progress.
• Serve as a key point of contact for local nonprofits, community partners, vendors, and internal event partners for day-to-day communication and coordination.
• Support the process for vetting new community partners and gathering required documentation.
• Help organize and promote volunteering opportunities for employees, including sign-up management, communication, and follow-up.
• Support the planning and delivery of exclusive community engagement experiences for high-value customers (e.g., VICs and Loyalty Icons).
• Assist with gathering feedback from employee participants and compiling engagement metrics.
• Assist with tracking budgets, processing invoices, and submitting expense reports for community engagement and corporate event activities.
• Prepare reports and presentations summarizing program and event results for internal teams and leadership.
• Collaborate with Store, PR, Social Impact, Marketing, Internal Communications, and Logistics/Facilities teams to ensure consistent messaging and seamless event execution.
• Collect and analyze Benevity data to measure success and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Provide regular updates and post-event reports for leadership, highlighting key outcomes and learnings.
• Provide general administrative support as needed.

Community Engagement – Events Specialist

Engineering Manager

• Define how Nordstrom measures its digital business
• Set the technical direction for how behavioral data is captured across web and app
• Lead a team of senior engineers and analysts — setting clear expectations for technical quality
• Own a high-scale data platform that turns raw web and app interactions into session-level behavioral data in near real time
• Raise the standard for data modeling, transformation, and data quality
• Bring delivery discipline that the team and its partners can count on
• Be the face of the team to the business — translating complex data work into clear business value for partners across merchandising, marketing, customer, and digital strategy

Engineering Manager – Digital Insights

Security Engineer

• The Senior Security Engineer on the TIDE team is a hybrid practitioner who writes detection rules, hunts adversary activity across the data lake, and builds the automation that ties it all together.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-fidelity detection rules in CrowdStrike NG-SIEM (LogScale/CQL) across endpoint, email, identity, network, and cloud domains
• Operationalize the full detection lifecycle: threat modeling, logic development, empirical testing, deployment, tuning, and retirement
• Build detection content aligned to MITRE ATT&CK, threat actor TTPs, and internal threat model priorities
• Translate threat intelligence findings, incident post-mortems, and hunt discoveries into durable detection logic
• Collect, analyze, and operationalize tactical and technical threat intelligence from open-source, commercial, and internal sources
• Produce actionable intelligence products including threat actor profiles, TTP summaries, and IOC packages that directly inform detection priorities and hunting hypotheses
• Design and execute hypothesis-driven threat hunts across endpoint, email, identity, network, and cloud telemetry
• Maintain visibility into coverage gaps and drive new hunt-to-detect cycles to close them
• Support provide technical escalation support for complex incidents involving identity compromise, endpoint intrusion, lateral movement, and data exfiltration
• Conduct targeted forensic and log-based analysis during active investigations, contributing to root cause determination and containment decisions

Senior Security Engineer – Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering

Procurement

• Lead and support contract lifecycle work across hardware, devices, SaaS, and VAR services, while coaching direct reports on negotiation, category strategy, and stakeholder management, flexing coaching styles to grow capability
• Lead highly complex cross-functional efforts, shaping category strategy, building VP- and executive-level alignment, and driving favorable outcomes on ambitious timelines
• Influence at the executive level and synthesize complex stakeholder positions into clear, data-driven recommendations (including TCO modeling), proactively communicating progress and risk, and representing Nordstrom in escalated supplier engagements
• Employ strong knowledge of key hardware and software industry players, competitors, and market dynamics, including component market challenges
• Build relationships with strategic suppliers and industry players and proactively manage and measure supplier performance for continuous improvement
• Employ advanced program and project management tools, solutions, and techniques
• Independently draft and redline a wide variety of technology agreements, including master agreements, SOWs, and catalog-enablement agreements
• Drive employee engagement and development through consistent Connects and timely coaching feedback
• Lead the team through ambiguity and change, modeling a positive attitude and continuous-improvement mindset, anticipating where the category and operating model need to evolve, and making both strategic and tactical decisions
• Drive day-to-day oversight of the team's portfolio and a robust savings pipeline linked to category strategy and FY targets, and partner with Finance to incorporate budget and P&L impact into sourcing strategy.

Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Software & Hardware

Analyst

• Own PCI DSS v4.0 compliance program end-to-end
• Build and maintain the CDE asset inventory
• Design and run the periodic control testing program
• Track findings in GRC platform and surface the right KPIs and KRIs
• Lead scoping conversations and review architecture changes
• Build a reusable testing library for testing technical controls
• Run the evidence request workflow with control owners
• Be the primary day-to-day QSA contact
• Level up the compliance team and educate stakeholders on PCI obligations

Senior Technical PCI Analyst

• The Attack Surface Analyst Sr 2 champions reduction of Nordstrom’s attack surface through continuous identification, assessment, and escalation of the highest-risk exposures, along with the actions needed to manage that risk.
• Collaborates closely with cybersecurity and technology partner teams to prioritize risk, execute remediation activities, and automate processes that secure the technology landscape.
• Lead the growth of the attack surface management program, develop and implement solutions to improve visibility into exposures, and contribute to the design and implementation of net-new capabilities.
• Continuously drive improvements in attack surface management processes, methodologies, and security toolsets to enhance operational effectiveness, automating where possible.
• Maintain Cybersecurity Standards, Attack Surface Management standard operating procedures, and runbooks.
• Collaborate with AppSec, DevOps, and cloud platform teams to secure deployments and integrate security best practices into the design of software and related systems, ensuring a secure-by-design approach.
• Maintain a map of Nordstrom’s attack surface through collaboration with network and offensive security teams, conducting regular assessments and reconnaissance activities, and leveraging dark web monitoring resources.
• Lead data-driven, risk-prioritized, enterprise-wide initiatives to reduce vulnerabilities and exposures across Nordstrom’s technologies; identify opportunities and champion architectural changes that reduce attack surface.
• Develop and present metrics to measure operational efficiency and attack surface risk.
• Maintain domain expertise by completing trainings, attending industry presentations, obtaining certifications, engaging with the cybersecurity community, and consuming threat intelligence sources.
• Support the growth of teammates’ domain expertise through mentorship, presentations, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Lead compliance activities for the domain, including evidence validation and submission, proactive control evaluation and mitigation of gaps, and assessments (e.g., PCI).

Senior Attack Surface Analyst

• Supports the administration and operational execution of Nordstrom’s Time Away and Leave of Absence programs
• Manages a dedicated HR inbox, serving as a responsive and knowledgeable resource for HRBPs on leave and time away questions, processes, and escalations
• Serves as a resource for standard questions from internal partners and vendors, escalating and/or managing complex issues as appropriate
• Contributes to leave and time away modernization initiatives, supporting workstreams related to policy updates, program design research, benchmarking, and process improvements
• Partners closely with Nordstrom’s internal Accommodations teams to support aligned handling of leave and accommodation intersections
• Assists in maintaining policy governance by drafting and updating time away and leave-related job aids, FAQs, and employee-facing materials
• Applies working knowledge of laws such as FMLA, USERRA, ADA, and state paid leave requirements to support compliant and accurate program execution
• Runs standard reports and assists with analysis on utilization, eligibility, and employee impact to support team discussions and decision-making
• Supports vendor coordination tasks including data entry, process tracking, reporting, and issue logging
• Contributes to training materials, education content, and communications to improve leader and employee understanding of programs
• Identifies opportunities to improve processes and reduce manual effort within defined scope
• Supports the maintenance of program documentation to ensure operational practices accurately reflect plan rules and approved policies

Benefits Analyst 2 – Leaves & Time Away

Program Manager

• Manage the day-to-day administration and optimization of legal and risk technology platforms, including the Risk Management Information System (RMIS)
• Support intake, triage, and tracking of Legal Operations requests and projects
• Partner with Technology teams including Engineering, as well as Finance and Insurance, and outside vendors to coordinate system implementations, integrations, and process improvement initiatives
• Own and maintain intranet sites such as SharePoint, file share drives and other Nordstrom tools
• Drive program management, project management and knowledge base via JIRA and Confluence
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, knowledge base content, and training materials to drive consistency and self-service across the Legal department

Program Manager, Legal

General Counsel

• Structure, draft, negotiate, and advise business clients on a variety of commercial contracts relating to the operation of multichannel fashion retail
• Advise clients at all levels within the business on a broad range of legal issues in support of business initiatives
• Provide counsel on strategic deals, deliver practical and timely day-to-day legal advice
• Lead larger-impact projects both within the department and across the company while working with cross-functional teams
• Monitor regulatory and compliance developments relevant to the company’s commercial operations

Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial

Designer

• Communicate with vendors, leveraging industry knowledge of print processes, dye and ink types, embellishment and application techniques
• Assess and approve all printed and art-related strike-offs, yarn dyes and knit downs for color, layout and printing techniques
• Manage development and production timelines for all artworks and yarn dyes and ensure deadlines are met
• Prepare and send out artwork packages to suppliers, including color callouts and key details
• Create and develop woven plaids, stripes and allover prints to support key item programs