Sr Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Influence strategic product development decisions by providing data-driven analysis, scenario planning, and recommendations related to project priorities, resource allocation, timelines, and commercialization readiness.
• Facilitate alignment between business, product, and development leadership to support portfolio objectives.
• Lead and manage high-profile product development projects from concept ideation through commercialization, applying a structured stage-gate methodology to ensure projects meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
• Own progression through each gate by coordinating deliverables, reviews, and approvals.
• Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, industrial design, software, marketing, sourcing, quality, regulatory, and operations teams.
• Establish project governance, drive accountability for commitments, manage interdepartmental dependencies, and facilitate decision-making to ensure teams remain aligned on priorities, milestones, and business objectives.
• Partner closely with software and firmware product owners to develop and maintain integrated product delivery plans that align hardware, firmware, mobile application, cloud, and commercialization activities.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, resource constraints, and critical path schedules to ensure coordinated execution across multiple development organizations and successful on-time product launches.
• Provide executive-level project visibility through comprehensive program reporting, schedule management, risk assessments, and milestone tracking.
• Communicate and document project health, resource needs, key decisions, and trade-offs to stakeholders while ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks related to cost, schedule, technical feasibility, supply chain, and quality.
• Drive issue resolution through data-driven problem-solving and escalate critical risks or decisions when appropriate to maintain project momentum.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources by tracking progress against plans, forecasting impacts, and adjusting priorities as needed.
• Ensure development efforts remain aligned with business objectives and financial targets.
• Lead the advancement of project management capabilities across the organization by establishing best practices, improving stage-gate governance, standardizing project reporting, and implementing tools and processes that improve execution and organizational transparency.

Qualifications

• PMP Certification is preferred
• 7-10 years of experience managing product development projects, preferably in consumer goods
• Experience in leading projects through a stage-gate development process
• Experience developing or maturing project management processes, governance models, and organizational best practices
• Experience managing complex product development programs involving hardware, firmware, software, cloud, and mobile applications
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills
• Experience working in cross-functional teams including R&D, marketing, and supply chain
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements for consumer products