New Product Program Manager
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Job Location:
Sacramento, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 90000 - 150000
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Balanced Body is seeking an accomplished and highly strategic Program Manager to lead the successful introduction of our most significant new customer-facing programs. This high-visibility role is critical to our growth strategy requiring an individual who can manage complex projects involving both advanced technical development and large-scale operational change. The ideal candidate thrives in a cross-functional environment and has a proven track record of bringing major new offerings to market.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Initiative Delivery
- End-to-End Delivery Ownership: Manage the entire project lifecycle for significant new customer-facing programs and offerings from strategic planning through successful market introduction and subsequent stabilization.
- Integrated Plan Execution: Drive the execution of the full organizational readiness plan ensuring all business unit activities (marketing operations support engineering) are completed synchronized and aligned with project timelines.
- Market Readiness: Define track and manage all critical path dependencies across complex multi-departmental initiatives to ensure a successful and timely public release of new capabilities.
Organizational Alignment & Risk Management
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the central program leader ensuring clear consistent communication and coordinated efforts among high-level stakeholders across Product Engineering Legal Marketing and Operations.
- Proactive Risk Mitigation: Identify potential roadblocks and systemic risks that could impact the customer experience or launch timeline and rapidly develop and execute comprehensive mitigation strategies.
Customer Focus and Quality Assurance
- Experience Assurance: Maintain a rigorous focus on the end-user experience ensuring that the launched program meets high standards for quality accessibility and ease of use.
- Organizational Enablement: Ensure all internal teams are fully prepared and enabled to support the new offering at scale including comprehensive training and documentation.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Project Experience: Proven experience managing at least two large-scale high-visibility New Program Introductions (NPI) or strategic customer-facing initiatives with significant cross-functional dependencies.
- Scope and Scale: Experience managing projects that involve significant technical development AND new operational or logistical structures (e.g. supply chain integration novel fulfillment processes).
- Methodology: Strong proficiency in project management methodologies (e.g. Agile Waterfall Hybrid) and relevant tooling (e.g. Jira Asana).
- Leadership & Communication: Exceptional communication influencing and leadership skills with the ability to manage conflict and drive consensus among senior executive and technical teams.
- Education: Bachelors degree in Business Technology or a related field. Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification is a plus.
Balanced Body is the worlds largest designer and manufacturer of Pilates equipment as well as a provider of high-quality Pilates and other mind-body instructor training and continuing education. We currently do business in over 100 countries with world-renowned customer service and a serious commitment to environmentally-friendly business practices. If you want to work with a company with a passion for changing lives in ways small and large let us hear from you. We offer competitive compensation and excellent benefits including:
- Medical Dental & Vision
- Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance - Employer Paid!
- Paid time off and holidays
Balanced Body is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity.
NO AGENCY CALLS!
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- Management Experience
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- DoD Experience
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Contracts
About Company
Move better, live better. Your comprehensive resource for Pilates equipment and instructor education from Balanced Body—the leader in Pilates since 1976.
