Mockingbird

Product Development Program Manager

Mockingbird

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

Visit company website

Explore more

✨ AI Apply
Apply

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or equivalent industry experience.
  • 5+ years in Hardware Program Management for physical consumer products, ideally with international manufacturing partners.
  • Experience managing multiple development cycles in parallel, with complex cross-functional dependencies.
  • Proven success leading program schedules, cost and budget tracking, and risk management processes.
  • Understanding of Agile and Phase-Gate methodologies and how to apply them pragmatically.
  • Experience owning engineering build activities, both on-site and remotely, with international suppliers.
  • Excellent communicator, adept at translating between engineering, operations, product, and executive stakeholders.
  • Strong peer partner — collaborates proactively with other PMs to share learnings, flag risks early, and standardize best practices.
  • Experience applying highly analytical, structured, and deeply organized approaches to drive clear, measurable outcomes.
  • Ability to influence without authority; comfortable navigating ambiguity to drive clarity.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with competing priorities.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive medical / dental / vision coverage
  • Equity for every full-time employee
  • Flexible Paid Time Off, including a minimum of at least 15 days off per year
  • 16 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave for all team members who welcome a child into their family (whether through birth, adoption or foster placement), with an additional option for 4 weeks of unpaid leave and a Shadow Return week.
  • Family planning support through a complimentary Kindbody membership and medical plans that include coverage for fertility treatment and reproductive technology (fertility drugs, artificial insemination, IVF, and others)
  • 401(k) with 100% company match up to 2% of your salary
  • Quarterly wellness stipend and annual work-from-home stipend
  • Discounted memberships to the Peloton app and OneEleven (financial wellness), plus 12 free virtual therapy sessions a year with Talkspace
  • Family & friends discount on Mockingbird products, plus free products for yourself when you join
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
program managementrisk managementcost trackingbudget trackingAgile methodologyPhase-Gate methodologyengineering build activitiesBOM accuracyECO trackingchange request processes
Soft Skills
excellent communicatorcollaborativeanalyticalorganizedinfluencing without authoritynavigating ambiguityability to thrive in fast-paced environmentsproactiveaccountabilityalignment