Mockingbird

Program Manager

• Lead the planning and execution of multiple product development programs within your assigned experience portfolio, from feasibility through launch and sustaining.
• Create and maintain comprehensive program schedules, with dependencies clearly mapped, critical paths identified, and milestones tracked across programs within your portfolio.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for delivery outcomes within your portfolio, ensuring products ship on time and meet defined quality, cost, and performance requirements.
• Assess portfolio health holistically, identifying cross-program risks, dependencies, and opportunities to optimize sequencing, resourcing, and learning across launches.
• Proactively assess and forecast resourcing needs across Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Product Development, Operations, and external partners for your portfolio.
• Identify resourcing constraints, capacity risks, or timeline conflicts early, and elevate them clearly to cross-functional partners, adjacent Program Managers, and leadership to enable informed tradeoffs and prioritization decisions.
• Facilitate regular program syncs and executive-level updates, driving accountability and alignment across Engineering, Product, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations.
• Plan and execute engineering build events both domestically and internationally, including creation of Build Plans, Build Matrices, and Clear-to-Build checkpoints.
• Partner closely with suppliers to ensure manufacturability, cost targets, quality standards, and readiness for scaling and launch.
• Own the escalation and mitigation of technical, schedule, and delivery risks across programs within your portfolio.
• Maintain and evolve core product lifecycle documentation, including BOM accuracy, ECO tracking, and change request processes.
• Use and help evolve the team’s common program management tools, templates, and documentation standards to ensure consistent execution across the portfolio.
• Partner with adjacent PDPMs to align cross-portfolio milestones, capacity constraints, hand offs and decision-making across the broader product roadmap.
• Contribute to shared PDPM processes and operating rhythms, including cross-portfolio planning, launch readiness reviews, and standard reporting.
• Support the onboarding and evaluation of new manufacturing partners as Mockingbird grows and diversifies its supply chain.
• Travel to overseas partners (primarily Asia-based) to support builds, supplier readiness, and launch execution, approximately 3-4x per year.

Product Development Program Manager