Category Manager
We’re now entering an exciting new chapter in Ooni’s journey. As part of our growth strategy, we’re strengthening our core technical capabilities within our product team and that's where you come in. We’re looking for a Category Manager superstar to join the Ooni team. Working as part of our Category Management team, you’ll be involved in shaping our product roadmap and driving strategy for our award winning product range. Alongside our Head of Product Category Management and Senior Category Managers, you’ll be an in-house expert on all things consumer and ensure our customers are always at the heart of our product development.
What you’ll do
Support our Head of Category Management and Senior Category Managers to deliver our long term commercial strategy.
Building on consumer insight, market understanding and internal expertise help to build out market-leading segment plans for the categories you’re leading on.
Identify and share knowledge of existing and emerging consumer needs and wants identifying potential opportunities.
Work closely with our Product team throughout the new product development process to ensure we deliver best in class products that exceed consumer expectations.
Brief new products into the Marketing team for the creation of packaging, collateral, and product launch assets.
Work closely with the Sales and Marketing teams on go-to-market planning and retailer line reviews.
Contribute to demand planning with Sales, Operations, and Finance, offering forecasts grounded in market insight.
With the Planning team, manage product lifecycles post-launch - tracking performance, addressing technical issues, driving improvements, and coordinating end-of-life processes.
Understand, report on, and offer insight into Ooni’s product and category financials.
What you’ll need to succeed
Strong commercial understanding - able to connect consumer insight, pricing, and performance data to make smart recommendations.
Consumer-first mindset - you’re passionate about understanding customer needs and using that knowledge to shape great products.
Analytical thinker - comfortable working with numbers, reports, and market data to draw clear, actionable insights.
Collaborative approach - you thrive working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Operations teams to bring ideas to life.
Organised and detail-oriented - able to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent communicator - clear, confident, and comfortable presenting your ideas and insights.
Curious and growth-minded - you love learning, exploring trends, and challenging yourself to keep improving.
Experience in consumer product or category management - ideally within a consumer goods / durables environment.
Solid category management or product experience - in category, product, or brand management, ideally within consumer goods, retail, or a design-led environment.
Why Ooni?
When you join one of our global teams, you’re joining a dedicated group of do-ers who value Kindness, Passion, Innovation, Ambition and Rigor above all else. We live, work and play by these values and are proud of what we’ve built here. As a member of our team, you will also receive the following:
Work for an employer that cares about your well-being! We’ve got private healthcare through Bupa as well as access to on-demand coaching and therapy sessions via BetterHelp
£500 to spend on Ooni products each year, plus 50% discount on any other Ooni products.
£500 every year to spend on your passion – whatever that may be.
35 days of paid time off per year, plus an additional 5 week sabbatical when you’ve been here for 5 years.
Access to an employee assistance programme which includes on demand coaching.
We believe in giving back to our communities, which is why we offer every team member five paid volunteer days each year to support causes they care about.
Having a fantastic culture is really important to all of us at Ooni. We work hard to make it diverse and inclusive, and want everyone to have access to the same opportunities. If you would like this advert in a different format or need an alternative method of applying, please let us know. You can email us at [email protected].
Skills Required
- Strong commercial understanding, including consumer insight, pricing, and performance data analysis
- Consumer-first mindset and ability to understand customer needs
- Analytical ability to interpret numbers, reports, and market data
- Collaborative approach to cross-functional work
- Strong organizational and detail-oriented skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Curiosity and growth-oriented mindset
- Experience in consumer product or category management
- Category, product, or brand management experience within consumer goods, retail, or a design-led environment
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as unusually generous, including 35 days of paid holiday and a five-week sabbatical after five years of service. Volunteer days are also included, reinforcing a broad time-off offering beyond standard PTO.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision coverage characterized as fully covered for employees in some U.S. listings. Mental-health support and EAP-style services are also framed as part of the overall health and wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are presented as competitive, including a 401(k) with a 6% company match for U.S. roles and references to enhanced pension contributions in other regions. This mix suggests deliberate support for long-term financial benefits alongside immediate perks.
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What We Do
Why we do what we do? Because everyone deserves great pizza, that’s why. It’s a simple idea, but a noble cause that’s behind everything we do at Ooni. We’re working our wee socks off and won’t rest until there’s an Ooni pizza oven in the backyard of every person everywhere. What we do: We design, make and sell AMAZING pizza ovens. They’re so AMAZING that lower-case adjectives just don’t do them justice. Right now, we sell our pizza ovens all over the world. Hot and fast is how you cook truly great pizza, and- all of our models get hot as hell (that’s 932°F/500°C last time we checked) and cook incredible pizza in only 60 seconds. Before Ooni, if you wanted pizza that good, you had to go to a restaurant or spend thousands on a traditional pizza oven. Not anymore, friends. Work with us: We have a 300-plus-strong multi-national team who are busy designing, selling, branding, internet-ing, events-ing, supporting, marketing, welding, shipping, financing, photographing and dancing (probably) to make magic happen. Ooni is a beautiful machine that grows and learns every day, and it’s really freaking amazing to be a part of it all.
Why Work With Us
Our Impact: We care about building a business for good and paying it forward, too. We’re a kind business filled with kind people. We donate 1% of every sale to carefully chosen social and environmental causes, and we’re a member of 1% for the Planet, who can totally vouch for us. Go to YouTube and search “We are Ooni.” for more.
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