Product Line Manager

About Ruggable:

Ruggable is a leading direct-to-consumer e-commerce brand based in Los Angeles California with an extraordinary track record of high profitable growth. We pride ourselves on having an extremely loyal customer base and a talented team made up of genuinely caring people who take action and deliver results. We are venture-backed and own a patented washable rug design thats disrupting the home décor industry. Our mission is to empower our customers to live vibrantly with beautiful products that dont compromise on function. If youre passionate about consumer products e-commerce and high-growth start-ups keep reading!

Job Summary:

This role reports into the Director of PLM & NPI and supports the broader PLM & NPI team by owning the product brief managing the economics of new developments and tracking performance of the existing assortment. It is primarily an executional and analytical role with strong strategic input particularly on product definition lifecycle and assortment health.

Were looking for a commercially minded product leader with hands-on experience bringing physical products to market. The project management of new product introductions sits with the NPI side of the team so this role can stay focused on the product itself: what were building why were building it and how its performing once its out in the world.

Youll work closely with Merchandising Product Development Textile Design Finance Marketing and Operations. Ruggable operates primarily through a made-to-order model across owned manufacturing sites in the US UK EU and Australia with a growing finished good business alongside it. Youll need to understand how product decisions move through both models and write briefs that hold up in either.

What Youll Do:

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Contribute to the innovation pipeline for Non-Printed products and new Printed material introductions sequenced against commercial opportunity bandwidth and operational complexity
• Identify whitespace through competitive research consumer insight and trend monitoring. Bring a clear point of view to whats worth pursuing and why
• Own briefs for evergreen updates and product improvement projects alongside new introductions. Not everything in the pipeline is brand new and this role is responsible for making sure existing products get the same rigor when theyre due for investment

Brief & Product Definition

• Write and own the product brief from early innovation-stage through the detailed spec that opens the development gate
• Serve as brief guardian throughout development catching scope drift flagging tradeoffs and ensuring development teams are always working from a single source of truth

Financial Ownership & Pricing

• Build and maintain cost models for all new developments across materials manufacturing packaging and logistics. Own pricing recommendations grounded in margin requirements competitive positioning and consumer willingness to pay
• Track cost evolution through development and flag margin risk early

In-Market Performance & Lifecycle

• Own post-launch performance analysis across sales trends customer feedback return rates quality data and margin health. Translate that data into clear lifecycle recommendations
• Brief product improvements into development when performance data supports it including evergreen updates and quality-driven changes. Maintain a prioritized improvement backlog for the existing assortment

Cross-Functional Partnership & Team

• Partner with Merchandising and Textile Design on the seasonal line plan. Represent new developments with the right timing counts and commercial parameters
• Manage the Collection Launch Coordinator. Set direction provide coaching and build a collection launch engine that gets more reliable and scalable over time

What Youll Need to Have:

Required:

• 3-6 years in product management product line management or category management in a consumer product DTC or manufacturing environment
• Hands-on experience with physical products including comfort with materials manufacturing constraints and supply chain realities
• Demonstrated experience writing and owning product briefs or PRDs through a full development process
• Comfort owning product financials including margin modeling costing and pricing
• Analytically self-sufficient; able to pull manipulate and interpret data independently
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to drive alignment across cross-functional teams without direct authority

Preferred:

• Experience in a DTC or e-commerce environment where speed of iteration and in-market feedback loops matter
• Familiarity with seasonal calendar-driven businesses where development timelines and commercial calendars have to stay in sync
• Exposure to vertically integrated manufacturing models
• Excellent communication and cross-functional partnership skills
• Detail-oriented organized and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
• Creative problem solver with a customer-first mindset

Compensation:

• $110000 - $125000 per year base salary
• An annual bonus percentage that varies based on level of role
• Employer matching (up to 3% of base salary) for company sponsored 401K plan

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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