Senior Manager/Director of Product Development (Levity)

| Los Angeles, CA | Hybrid
Sorry, this job was removed at 10:43 p.m. (CST) on Monday, February 21, 2022
Find out who's hiring remotely in Los Angeles, CA.
See all Remote Product jobs in Los Angeles, CA
Apply
By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.

About Ruggable:

Ruggable is a Los Angeles-based, venture-backed, rapidly growing e-commerce startup that is disrupting the $7B rug industry and revolutionizing the market for residential rugs. Our patented 2-Piece Rug System allows you to remove the top layer of your rug and wash it in your home washing machine, offering an affordable, stylish and convenient solution for young families, pet owners, and busy individuals. We're a small, entrepreneurial team with big ambitions. We have a strong brand, established traction, and amazing advisors fueling our steady growth. This is an opportunity to get in at the ground floor and solve for complex challenges, while charting your own career.

About Levity:

Levity (levityhome.com) is a new brand in the Ruggable portfolio. Launched in December 2020, Levity’s mission is to build and deliver innovative furniture products that let our customers live without worry. Much like Ruggable rugs, our patent-pending Chair Systems have removable upholstery that can be washed in a home washing machine and easily interchanged for new styles. Though it varies across functions, we operate largely independently (think: startup within a startup), giving you the unique ability to help shape the early trajectory of this new business.

Job Summary:

In this position, you will play a critical role in setting Levity’s product strategy and driving the product development process from concept to final prototype. You should be excited about the big-picture thinking required to build the right product roadmap for Levity’s customers and business - and then be equally excited about the no-task-too-small, effective execution required to bring that roadmap to life. To accomplish this, you will be expected to recruit and lead an interdisciplinary team of user researchers, industrial designers, strategic sourcers, and more. This individual will have broad exposure to the Levity business but will primarily work with our Core Product, Supply Chain, and Finance teams; this individual will report to and partner with the GM of Levity.

Levity’s products, both current and future, are the essential heartbeat of our mission to deliver furniture that lets our customers live without worry; you’re the person who tells us where we need to go and then gets us there.

What You’ll Do:

  • Translate important criteria - e.g. market size, strategic fit, ease of execution - into an overarching prioritization framework and then use it to evaluate new product opportunities
  • Drive the strategic thinking, financial analyses, consumer research, and competitive assessments required to build - and continuously refine - the product roadmap
  • Develop an intimate understanding of our product philosophy and development approach
  • Build out and manage a product development ‘engine’
    • Project management: create and maintain detailed development timelines and drive effective cross-functional collaboration
    • Design: ensure data-driven, customer-centric decisions are made on key product features (dimensions, materials, etc.) while balancing style, function, and affordability
    • Sourcing: support the search, vetting, and onboarding of a low-cost, high-quality network of new vendors and manufacturers
    • Testing: research, define, and execute on internal and external testing standards
  • Partner with Core Product and the rest of the Levity team to ensure smooth transition of ‘launch-ready’ prototypes
  • Assist in other projects or initiatives as necessary - we are a small, scrappy team and everyone wears lots of hats!

What You’ll Need to Have:

Required:

  • 4-7 years of experience at a top-tier management consulting firm (or equivalent experience/skill set)
  • Ability to think strategically about the big picture and quickly dive into the minutia
  • Ability to structure a problem and develop its solution with relative autonomy
  • Ability to effectively lead a team with diverse backgrounds and skill sets
  • Excellent written and verbal communication with impeccable attention to detail
  • Strong interest in product design/development, specifically for hard goods/furniture

Preferred:

  • Experience outside of management consulting at a high-growth start-up or F500 company
  • Experience in product design/development, specifically for hard goods/furniture
  • Experience managing people

At Ruggable, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Ruggable is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.

To all recruitment agencies: Ruggable does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Ruggable employees or any other company destination. Ruggable is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Read Full Job Description
Apply Now
By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.

Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
    • typescriptLanguages
    • GraphQLLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • React.jsLibraries
    • Node.jsLibraries
    • Node.jsFrameworks
    • AWS RedshiftDatabases
    • AWS LamdasDatabases
    • AWS SMSDatabases
    • AWS GlueDatabases
    • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
    • OptimizelyAnalytics
    • RAnalytics
    • SQLAnalytics
    • TableauAnalytics
    • LookerAnalytics
    • IllustratorDesign
    • PhotoshopDesign
    • InDesignDesign
    • AsanaManagement
    • ConfluenceManagement
    • JIRAManagement
    • ShopifyCMS
    • KlaviyoCRM
    • YotpoCRM
    • KlaviyoEmail

An Insider's view of Ruggable

What’s the vibe like in the office?

There's a very "driven" feeling in the office. Everyone is trying to put out excellent work and keep pushing the product and the company forward. At the same time, everyone is gracious and big ego's are not common. There is an attitude of perpetual growth and learning at every level.

Allison

Graphic Design Manager

What projects are you most excited about?

I'm most excited about projects that we're undertaking to enhance our Customer Experience. Some of the most immediate projects are expanding the different channels we communicate with customers on including phone and chat. We're also looking into standing up more self-service customer friendly tools so customers always know their order status.

Benny

Customer Experience Director

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

Ruggable’s culture lends itself to entrepreneurial go-getters looking for rapid career growth. Team members are given a ton of autonomy and trusted to deliver value. Once you prove yourself, your scope and responsibilities grow quickly. I joined as an individual contributor, and one year later I’m leading a large team as Director of Core Product.

Therese

Director of Core Product

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

I find the best way to foster creativity is, ironically, to provide a healthy set of constraints and guiding principles. This creates a tremendous amount of focus and problem solving around the limitations in creative ways. It's like providing the outline of a coloring book and giving your team access to and ownership over all the colored pencils!

Linda

Chief Marketing Officer

What are Ruggable Perks + Benefits

Ruggable Benefits Overview

We value our team members as much as we value our customers. Here are just some of the benefits we offer for being part of our team:

Strong Company Culture
Fun Team Events
Career Growth Opportunities
Casual Dress Code
Emphasis on Work/Life Balance
Employee Discount

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
Ruggable sponsors animals through Face4Pets, provides rug donations through A Sense of Home and Chicago Furniture Bank, and plans to plant 100,000 trees in 2020 through One Tree Planted.
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Ruggable promotes a work-life balance by allowing employees a flexible work schedule that includes flexible start and end times.
Remote work program
Diversity
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
First Friday Yoga, Peloton Online subscription
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Our kitchens are always fully stocked with the latest snacks, a robust coffee/espresso/tea bar, and ever-changing LaCroix flavors.
Some meals provided
Ruggable's tradition of monthly Food Truck Tuesdays are paired with a rotating list of local LA food trucks (including In-N-Out!).
Company-sponsored happy hours
We host monthly company-wide happy hours to socialize and wind down with our Ruggable family.
Onsite office parking
Free parking on-site at our offices.
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

More Jobs at Ruggable

Apply Now
By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.
Learn more about RuggableFind similar jobs like this