Product Design and Development - Product Manager - Retail Product Lines 2

Job Details:
Job Title: Retail Product Lines 2
Location: Beaverton, OR
Duration: 6 Months
Type: Full-Time, Contract

Description:
We're looking for someone that has strong product experience & intuition for business. Through honesty, integrity, and willingness, this candidate is looking to grow and challenge themselves. An individual who has a proven track record of positively influencing internal and external partners. Who works together with others as one team, supporting others in doing meaningful work, driving impact for the consumer and athlete, and connecting to sport and sport lifestyle every day. This person will think big, break down barriers, innovate and implement in service of the athlete. The candidate needs to have heightened awareness of women's fashion and performance industries/competitive landscape, a passion for Women's products, and confidence with verbal and written communication.

If this is you, you will manage and oversee the product creation for our elite to everyday Tennis, Pickleball and Padel athletes. You will lead product and design reviews, connect with merchandising at key strategy check-ins, participate in cross-functional meetings, create compelling visual tools to influence design, merchandising and our downstream geography partners. You will work closely with the Court Product Director as well as Design, TD, Merchandising, Sports Marketing and elite athletes.

Top 5-7 Skills:

1. Product management experience

2. Product-related roles minimum 6 years

3. Knowledge in performance apparel (plus)

4. Strategic thinking with ability to balance elite athlete needs and unlock retail opportunities

5. Cross-functional communication written and verbal

6. Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and create a clear path forward

7. Leading product and design reviews

Requirements for the role:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Retail Merchandising, Business, an equivalent to 2 additional years' relevant work experience or combination of relevant education, experience, and training

• Minimum 6 years' relevant experience in product-related roles

• Must have Product management experience

• Knowledge in performance apparel is a plus

• Leads with a positive collective spirit and creates a 'one team' environment across functions

• Ability to operate effectively even when the way forward is not clear and to take an ambiguous situation and create a clear path forward for the cross-functional team

• Ability to communicate in consistent, clear, agile and timely manner with cross-functional partners written and verbally

• Strategic thinking with ability to balance elite athlete needs and unlock retail opportunities

• Leads by example and can hold team accountable for meeting deadlines and delivering quality work

• Manage and oversee the product creation for elite to everyday Tennis, Pickleball and Padel athletes

• Lead product and design reviews, connect with merchandising at key strategy check-ins, participate in cross-functional meetings, create compelling visual tools to influence design, merchandising and downstream geography partners

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Retail Merchandising, Business, an equivalent to 2 additional years' relevant work experience or combination of relevant education, experience, and training

• Minimum 6 years' relevant experience in product-related roles

• Or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have):

• Knowledge in performance apparel

• Heightened awareness of women's fashion and performance industries/competitive landscape

• Passion for Women's products

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.