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
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Business or Engineering
- 10+ years of project management experience
- Experience in consumer goods, electronics, or accessories
- Proven track record of shipping consumer products
- Experience communicating directly with factories and/or internal manufacturing teams
- Highly confident and effective communicator (verbal and written)
- Superior time management and ability to prioritize under change
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally
- Ability to work with a wide variety of personalities and disciplines
What We Do
PopSockets LLC designs, manufactures and sells innovative products that merge function with self-expression. The PopSocket is a collapsible grip and stand that provides effortless one-hand holding for any mobile device. Customizable, re-positionable, and fun to pop, PopSockets embody the company’s mission to merge function with self-expression.
Why Work With Us
We combine the traditional benefits of a startup (amazing, dog-friendly office, tons of perks, lots of vacation time) with the growth and promise of an already successful organization. Come jump on the train.
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