Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planning and Execution 

• Partner with Product, Engineering and Packaging teams to develop project plans, including milestones and timelines, budgets, resources. 

• Define project scopes, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria.  

• Escalate swiftly when project diverges and re-alignment is necessary. 

• Highlight critical paths, proactively identify risks, and develop mitigation plans when necessary. 

• 100% ownership of high-level milestones, and total understanding of how to lead the team to the finish line. 

• Team leadership & coordination 

• Lead and mentor project teams 

• Assign tasks, track progress, and resolve conflicts. 

• Foster collaboration across departments (Product, Operations, Marketing, IT, Sales) 

• Stakeholder Management 

• Communicate between stakeholders across departments, executives, vendors to ensure that projects are achieving company-wide initiatives. 

• Partner with Product, Engineering and Packaging teams to ensure projects are properly resourced. 

• Provide regular updates (status reports, dashboards, presentations), hold cross function teams accountable for. 

• Able to determine priority across projects, able to discern and guide the team to accomplish higher value requests over lower impact ones 

• Manage risks and develop mitigation strategies and escalate issues when necessary. 

• Conduct post-project reviews for continuous improvement. 

• Recommend process improvements and best practices. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Engineering

• 10+  years of project management experience (consumer goods, electronics, or accessories preferred) 

• Highly confident and effective communicator (verbal and written) 

• Superior time management skills, ability to set and juggle priorities, react to changes with a positive and can-do attitude 

• Proven past track record of shipping consumer products 

• Comfortable working in a fast paced, start-up environment 

• Experience in communicating directly with factories and/or internal manufacturing teams 

• Ability to work with a wide variety of personalities and disciplines 

• Must be able to travel domestically and internationally