Senior Manager, Product Operations & Commercialization

About Ketone-IQ

At Ketone-IQ were revolutionizing the way the world thinks about energy. Our cutting-edge approach to fueling the body transcends conventional expectations pushing the boundaries of whats possible. Were the trusted choice of elite endurance athletes special operators and high performers across diverse fields from cyclists conquering the Tour de France to EMTs working double shifts on the front lines.

In 2019 our innovative ketone nutritional superfuel caught the attention of the US Department of Defense SOCOM securing a $6MM contract to power their elite forces. But our ambitions dont stop there. Were on a mission to disrupt the entire energy market bringing our high-performance fuel to everyone from professional athletes to busy professionals and active individuals.

Ketone-IQ is High Performance Energy. Were changing the way people fuel and rapidly expanding as we lead the ketone movement and were looking for a passionate driven individual to join us on this exciting journey.

The Role

Were looking for a Senior Manager Product Operations & Commercialization to own the connective tissue between Product Supply Chain Marketing Sales and external partners. This role is equal parts project leader systems builder and operator ensuring that products move from concept to market smoothly sustainably and at scale.

This is a hands-on role for someone who loves complexity thrives in cross-functional environments and takes pride in building processes that make teams faster and better.

What Youll Own

Cross-Functional Product and Project Execution:

• 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.

Systems Process & Operating Rhythm:

• 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.

• Continuously identify friction points and operational gaps. Evolve processes to improve execution quality and decision-making as the business scales.

Packaging and Physical Goods Commercialization:

• Lead RFPs and supplier sourcing/evaluation for packaging merchandising merch and other physical components assessing options across cost quality scalability sustainability and risk.

• Partner closely with Quality Creative and Supply Chain to ensure new components and vendors are properly qualified prototyped press-checked (if printed) and produced to quality first time and at scale.

• Own primary product packaging holistically including development component changes custom development sustainability improvements and vendor qualifications.

• Support onboarding of new partners and transitions between vendors to ensure continuity and quality.

Strategic and Special Initiatives:

• Jump into high-priority initiatives as needed especially where structure coordination and execution are required to unblock progress.

• Act as a thought partner to the VP of Product on how to scale product execution operating cadence and cross-functional collaboration as the business grows.

• Help embed sustainability and broader stewardship impact considerations into decision-making Product pipeline development and manufacturing reporting and KPI tracking.

High Performer Traits

• Thrive in complex cross-functional environments.

• Systems thinker who naturally builds structure where there is ambiguity.

• Clear communicator across creative technical and operational teams.

• High-ownership mindset with a bias toward action.

• Comfortable navigating evolving priorities in a fast-growing business.

• Energized by building scalable processes that improve execution quality.

Experience & Background

• 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.

What Makes You a Winner

• You instinctively connect teams and remove friction before it slows execution.

• You see around corners byanticipating risks bottlenecks and trade-offs early.

• You treat commercialization as a strategic advantage not just a handoff.

• You build systems that scale with the business.

• You take pride in delivering products to market that are operationally sound from day one.