Senior Manager, Product Operations – Commercialization
Ketone-IQ
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Own integrated product execution across all physical Product at Ketone-IQ — including consumables, packaging, retail merchandising, and branded materials — guiding project initiatives from concept through commercialization.
- Define and manage launch plans, dependencies, and decision gates to balance speed, cost (COGS), quality, and operational feasibility.
- Drive alignment across Product, Marketing, Sales, Creative, Quality, and Supply Chain, ensuring clarity of ownership and momentum across complex initiatives.
- Ensure downstream needs of GTM Teams (Sales, E-commerce, and Marketing — e.g., product pages, creative assets, sales materials, and operational readiness) are considered early and sequenced appropriately.
- Partner with stakeholders post-launch to monitor Product performance metrics and identify optimization opportunities, upgrades, cost-savings, and operational improvements.
- Design and maintain scalable systems for project tracking, documentation, and cross-functional visibility (e.g., Notion; PJM tools like Asana, Smartsheets, Instagantt, Google Suite).
- Build clear, repeatable workflows for product development, specification management, packaging changes, and commercialization that enable teams to move faster without sacrificing rigor.
- Lead RFPs and supplier sourcing/evaluation for packaging, merchandising, merch, and other physical components, assessing options across cost, quality, scalability, sustainability, and risk.
- Jump into high-priority initiatives as needed — especially where structure, coordination, and execution are required to unblock progress.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in product operations, project management, commercialization, or adjacent roles within CPG, food & beverage, wellness, or regulated consumer products.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional product and packaging initiatives from concept through launch.
- Demonstrated ability to manage external partners (co-manufacturers, packaging vendors, creative production partners).
- Strong comfort owning packaging projects (even if not a packaging engineer) — including sourcing, vendor qualification, sustainability trade-offs, and cost considerations.
- Experience working in fast-growing, ambiguous environments where priorities evolve.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
product operationsproject managementcommercializationpackaging managementvendor qualificationcost analysissustainability assessmentproduct performance metricsworkflow designcross-functional collaboration
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingadaptabilitystakeholder managementinitiativestrategic thinkingteam coordinationproject execution