Special Projects Manager - Product Management
About Ruggable:
Ruggable is a Los Angeles-based, venture-backed, rapidly growing e-commerce startup that is disrupting the $7B rug industry and revolutionizing the market for residential rugs. Our patented 2-Piece Rug System allows you to remove the top layer of your rug and wash it in your home washing machine, offering an affordable, stylish and convenient solution for young families, pet owners, and busy individuals. We're a small, entrepreneurial team with big ambitions. We have a strong brand, established traction, and amazing advisors fueling our steady growth. This is an opportunity to get in at the ground floor and solve for complex challenges, while charting your own career.
Job Summary:
The Special Projects Manager will work to ensure our products and the level of satisfaction that they deliver to our customers, are world-class. Reporting to the Head of Product Management, you will be responsible for delivering many of our highest-value strategic initiatives. This role is best suited for an entrepreneurial individual who wants to:
- Maintain a healthy mix of strategy and execution in day-to-day work – you’ll determine which attributes of a product are most important to our customers and then delve into the nitty-gritty to deliver
- Have full ownership over products and product attributes – you’ll be the voice that tells us how to better manage our products (and then goes and does it)
- Go deep and broad – touching nearly all parts of our business, you’ll “see it all” through heavy interaction with everyone from Marketing to Operations to Supply Chain
What You’ll Do:
Using customer and product analytics, you’ll work closely with cross-functional partners to tackle tough, product-specific challenges like:
- Enhancing functionality and determining the right avenues for expansion (within Product)
- Identifying merchandising opportunities on our site (with Marketing)
- Developing next-gen manufacturing and fulfillment processes (with Operations)
- Improving the quality of our raw materials (with Supply Chain)
What You’ll Need to Have:
Required:
- 2-5 years of experience at a top-tier management consulting firm (or similar Product role in a F500 company / high growth startup); role can be adjusted for candidates with more experience
- Ability to own large projects and important relationships in fast-paced environment
- Ability to break down ambiguous, complex problems into simple, practical solutions
- Ability to think strategically about the big picture and quickly dive into the nitty-gritty
- Excellent business acumen and ability to focus on “what matters”
- Excellent written and verbal communication with impeccable attention to detail
- Excellent project management and organizational skills
Preferred:
- Experience with CPG / Retail, especially with textiles, carpeting, or apparel
At Ruggable, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Ruggable is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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